Louise Burgaard
Louise Katharina Vinter Burgaard is a Danish handballer for Odense Håndbold and the Denmark women's national [handball team|Danish national team].
She participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2012 European Women's Handball Championship in Serbia. At the 2013 World Championship, she was a part of the Danish team that won bronze medals, breaking a 9 year streak without medals for the Danish team. They beat Poland 30-26.
Club career
Burgaard started playing handball at Vinding SF when she was 5. In 2006 she signed for Fredericia HK. She has played for numerous Danish clubs, before in 2019 signing for the French club Metz Handball. Here she has won both the French cup and the LFH Division 1 Féminine multiple times.In the 2024–25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.
Achievements
Domestic
- Danish Championship:
- *Winner: 2014, 2025
- *Silver Medalist: 2013, 2016, 2019
- *Bronze Medalist: 2017
- French Championship:
- *Winner: 2022, 2023
- *Silver Medalist: 2021
- Danish Cup:
- *Winner: 2013, 2015
- *Finalist: 2016
- French Cup:
- *Winner: 2022, 2023
European
- EHF Cup:
- *Winner: 2013
- EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
- *Winner: 2014
- EHF Champions League:
- *Silver medalist: 2025
- *Bronze medalist: 2022
Individual awards
- All-Star right back of the World Championship: 2023
- All-Star Right Back of the Junior World Championship: 2010
- All-Star Right Back of the Junior European Championship: 2011
- All-Star Right Back of the Danish League: 2013, 2019