{ "id": "eprfrtj0ad", "slug": "rikke-petersen-schmidt", "title": "Rikke Petersen Schmidt", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play" }, { "id": "play.team", "label": "Other team and ball sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team" }, { "id": "play.team.court", "label": "Basketball and court team sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team.court" }, { "id": "play.team.court.handball", "label": "Handball", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team.court.handball" }, { "id": "play.team.court.handball.danish-handball-players", "label": "Danish handball players", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team.court.handball.danish-handball-players" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t1946.play.team.court", "label": "Western Europe · 1946 to 2000: Basketball and court team sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1946.play.team.court", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1946", "label": "Western Europe · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1946.play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1946.play" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1946.play.team", "label": "Other team and ball sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1946.play.team" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1946.play.team.court", "label": "Basketball and court team sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1946.play.team.court" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Rikke Petersen Schmidt (Rikke Poulsen Schmidt), born 1975 in Aarhus, is a Danish former handball goalkeeper and two-time Olympic champion (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004) with 104 national team caps and a 2004 all-star selection.", "snippet": "Rikke Petersen Schmidt (Rikke Poulsen Schmidt), born 1975 in Aarhus, is a Danish former handball goalkeeper and two-time Olympic champion (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004) with 104 national team caps and a 2004 all-star selection.", "node": "play.team.court.handball.danish-handball-players", "markdown": "# Rikke Petersen Schmidt\n\n**Rikke Petersen Schmidt** (born 1975 in Aarhus, Denmark; also recorded as Rikke Poulsen Schmidt) is a Danish former team handball player who played as a goalkeeper and won two Olympic gold medals with the Danish national team, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Born | 1975 in Århus (Aarhus), Midtjylland, Denmark; 184 cm / 75 kg[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840) |\n| Olympic medals | 2 gold, women's handball, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840) |\n| National team | 104 caps, 0 goals, 1999 to 2006[6](http://www.dhdb.hyldgaard-jensen.dk/spiller.php?id=1256) |\n| 2004 individual honors | Best goalkeeper of the Olympic tournament with a 44.1% save rate; all-star team member[2](https://www.sport-record.de/handball/halle-ihf-wch-w.pdf) |\n| Other name used | Competed as Rikke Petersen (2000) and Rikke Schmidt (2004)[3](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/name_doubles) |\n\n## Olympic career\n\nPetersen Schmidt was a member of the Danish squad that won the women's handball tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she was listed as Rikke Petersen, and defended the title at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, listed as Rikke Schmidt. Olympedia records her among the handball players who successfully defended their Olympic title in the same event in back-to-back Games.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840) • [3](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/name_doubles) At the 2004 tournament she was named best goalkeeper, with a save rate of 44.1%, and was selected for the tournament's all-star team alongside her Danish teammates [Katrine Fruelund](https://www.edgepedia.org/katrine-fruelund) and Line Daugaard.[2](https://www.sport-record.de/handball/halle-ihf-wch-w.pdf) In the 2004 quarterfinal against China, which Denmark won 32:28, she played 57 minutes 48 seconds and made 23 saves on 47 shots.[4](https://archive.ihf.info/upload/matchresuts/athens_2004/content/pdfs/HB.pdf)\n\nHer national team career ran from 1999 to 2006 and totaled 104 games, all as a goalkeeper, with no goals scored.\n\nIn 2002 she transferred to Slagelse FH (Slagelse Forenede Håndboldklubber), where she won the EHF Cup in 2003 and then the Danish League and the [EHF Champions League](https://www.edgepedia.org/ehf-champions-league) back-to-back in 2004 and 2005.[5](https://www.olympedia.org/affiliations/5302) Olympedia lists her affiliations as Kolding IF and Slagelse FH.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840)\n\nAfter a season at Aalborg DH (2005 to 2006) and one at Ikast-Bording EH, she retired in 2007, then returned to KIF Kolding when Christine Lindemann was sidelined by injuries. She unretired a second time in November 2012 to join Team Esbjerg, replacing two goalkeepers on maternity leave, and rejoined KIF Kolding in 2013, by then in the 2. Division, the third tier of Danish handball.\n\n## References\n\n1. [Rikke Petersen Schmidt, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88840)\n2. [Olympic Tournaments and IHF Women's Handball World Championships, sport-record.de](https://www.sport-record.de/handball/halle-ihf-wch-w.pdf)\n3. [Name doubles, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/name_doubles)\n4. [Athens 2004 women's handball match statistics, IHF archive](https://archive.ihf.info/upload/matchresuts/athens_2004/content/pdfs/HB.pdf)\n5. [Slagelse FH, Slagelse (DEN), Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/affiliations/5302)\n6. 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