Rikke Poulsen

Rikke Poulsen is a Danish former handball player and current goalkeeping coach for Team Esbjerg. She represented the Danish national team at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia.

Career

She started playing handball at the age of 4 at her local club Ejsing Boldklub.
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.
In December 2016 she took a break from handball due to maternity leave.
In the 2019–20 season she won the Danish Championship with Team Esbjerg.
In 2021 she was named the MVP in the Danish Handball Cup when she won the cup with Team Esbjerg.
In November 2021 she announced her retirement at the end of the season, but she was convinced to take one more season. She retired in 2022 to become the goalkeeper coach at Team Esbjerg, where she was tasked with coaching the Danish national team keeper Anna Kristensen and the talent Amalie Milling.