Mie Højlund Explained

Mie Højlund
Fullname:Mie Enggrob Højlund
Nationality:Danish
Birth Date:24 October 1997
Birth Place:Voldum, Favrskov, Denmark
Height:1.75 m
Position:Left back / Right back
Currentclub:Odense Håndbold
Clubnumber:32
Years1:2014–2017
Clubs1:Randers HK
Years2:2017–
Clubs2:Odense Håndbold
Nationalyears1:2016–
Nationalteam1:Denmark
Nationalcaps1:108
Nationalgoals1:219

Mie Enggrob Højlund (born 24 October 1997) is a Danish handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team.[1] [2] [3]

Højlund can play both right back and left back, but has said publicly, that she prefers the left back position.[4]

Club career

Højlund played on the Randers HK youth teams, and in 2014 she became a part of the senior team.[5] She scored a total of 30 goals in her debut season.In the first years she was the back up to national team player Jane Schumacher. In the fall of 2016 she became the first choice on the playmaker position. That season Randers HK won the Danish Women's Handball Cup with a surprise win over FC Midtjylland Håndbold.[6] She ended the season as the second top scorer in the league with 89 goals.[7]

This prompted a move to the Danish top club Odense Håndbold, with whom she came second in the 2017–18 Damehåndboldligaen.In 2019 she further extended the contract at Odense Håndbold until 2024. In 2021 she won the Danish Championship for the first time, as well as second Danish cup.[8]

National team career

Højlund was part of the Danish youth teams that saw succes in the middle of the 2010s. She was part of the team that won u-19 Euroes 2015 in Spain followed by the U-19 World Cup in Russia.[9] This together with her succes at Randers HK prompted national team coach Klavs Bruun Jørgensen to call her up against Norway in october 2016.[10]

She was initially called up to the national team for the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship, but rejected it due to exams. The next years 2017 World Women's Handball Championship she missed due to a shoulder injury.[11]

Her first major international tournament was thus the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship in France.

She was part of the Danish team that won bronze medals at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain and the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship in Denmark/Norway/Sweden.

Achievements

Individual awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mie Højlund Profile. Odense Håndbold. 8 July 2017.
  2. Web site: Danmarks trup mod Frankrig . . 8 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170225202251/http://www.dhf.dk/Presse/nyheder/2016/Oktober/danmarks_trup_mod_frankrig . 25 February 2017 . dead .
  3. https://www.eurohandball.com/en/player/8sDDgLLaR2Owkt9OuQckIQ/mie-enggrob-hojlund/ EHF profile
  4. Web site: Mie Højlund har fået nok: – Jeg er ret træt af at spille højre back. europamester.dk. da.
  5. Web site: Randers HK skiver med Mie Højlund. europamester.dk. da.
  6. Web site: Randers HK er pokalmestre 2016. europamester.dk. da.
  7. Web site: Statistik. tophaandbold.dk. da.
  8. Web site: The Double: Odense Håndbold vinder også pokalfinalen. TV 2/Fyn. da.
  9. Web site: Danmarks gyldne talenter vinder VM-guld efter gyserafslutning. TV2 Denmark. da.
  10. Web site: LANDSHOLDSDATA/SPILLER. Danish Handball Federation. da.
  11. Web site: Stortalent takker endnu engang nej til en slutrunde. TV 2/Fyn. da.
  12. Web site: Årets Kvindelige Talent. tophaandbold.dk. 13 September 2021. Danish.