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Henny Reistad is World Female Handball Player 2022

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Posted on 27. May 2023.

World Female Handball Player 2022 player is Norwegian superstar Henny Reistad!

Amazing 24-years old Scandinavian powerful left back has won the Handball-Planet.com contest powered by Nexe Grupa for the first time!

Reistad is one of the best players in women’s handball for a few years with brilliant seasons with Vipers and Team Esbjerg. She was voted for MVP of the Women’s EHF EURO 2022 in Slovenia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, where she won the gold medal with Norwegian national team. She is also leading scorer of the Women’s EHF Champions League 2022/2023, who helped her Esbjerg to qualify for the Final4 2023.

Reistad won the highest number of cumulative points of fans (53.326 votes in total) and Handball Planet jury alongside Stine Bredal Oftedal (19), but second criteria, number of points taken by Jury was decisive.

Swedish line-player Linn Blohm won third place with 14 points.

WORLD FEMALE HANDBALL PLAYER 2022 – ALL STAR TEAM:

World Female left wing 2022: Camilla Herrem (Sola HK – Norway)
World Female left back 2022: Henny Reistad (Team Esbjerg – Norway)
World Female playmaker 2022: Stine Bredal Oftedal (Gyori AUDI ETO KC – Norway)
World Female right back 2022: Nora Mork (Vipers Kristiansand – Norway)
World Female right wing 2022: Angela Malestein (FTC Rail Cargo – Netherlands)
World Female line-player 2022: Linn Blohm (Gyori Audi ETO KC – Sweden)
World Female goalkeeper 2022: Katrin Lunde (Vipers Kristiansand – Norway)
World Female defensive player 2022: Kathrine Heindahl (Team Esbjerg – Denmark)

WORLD HANDBALL FEMALE LEFT WING 2022 (FANS + JURY)

• Nadine Schatzl (Gyori Audi ETO KC – Hungary) (56%, 4,200 Votes) 7 + 3
• Camilla Herrem (Sola HK – Norway) (19%, 1,442 Votes) 5 + 7
• Emma Friis (Ikast Handbold – Denmark) (15%, 1,168 Votes) 3 + 1
• Sanna Solberg-Isaksen (Team Esbjerg – Norway) (10%, 756 Votes) 1 + 5

Total Voters: 7,566

WORLD HANDBALL FEMALE LEFT BACK 2022

• Henny Reistad (Team Esbjerg – Norway) (44%, 3,156 Votes) 7 + 12
• Anne Mette Hansen (Gyor Audi ETO KC – Denmark) (30%, 2,194 Votes) 5 + 3
• Cristina Neagu (CSM Bucharest – Romania) (16%, 1,145 Votes) 3 + 5
• Marketa Jerabkova (Vipers Kristiansand – Czech Republic) (10%, 753 Votes) 1 + 1

Total Voters: 7,248

WORLD FEMALE PLAYMAKER 2022

• Stine Bredal Oftedal (Gyor Audi ETO KC – Norway) (76%, 5,517 Votes) 12+ 7
• Itana Grbic (Brest Bretagne – Montenegro) (12%, 892 Votes) 5 + 3
• Bruna de Paula (HC Metz – Brazil) (7%, 487 Votes) 3 + 5
• Grâce Zaadi Deuna (CSM Bucharest – France) (6%, 410 Votes) 1 + 1

Total Voters: 7,306

WORLD FEMALE RIGHT BACK 2022

• Katrin Klujber (FTC Rail Cargo – Hungary) (44%, 3,616 Votes) 7 + 1
• Ana Gros (RK Krim Mercator – Slovenia) (30%, 2,456 Votes) 5 + 5
• Nora Mork (Team Esbjerg – Norway) (17%, 1,443 Votes) 3 + 10
• Anna Vyakhireva (Vipers Kristiansand – Russia) (9%, 766 Votes) 1 + 3

Total Voters: 8,281

WORLD FEMALE RIGHT WING 2022

• Angela Malestein (FTC Rail Cargo – Netherlands) (60%, 4,357 Votes) 10 + 3
• Jovanka Radicevic (RK Krim Mercator – Montenegro) (18%, 1,315 Votes) 5 + 1
• Jana Knedlikova (Vipers – Czech Republic) (14%, 984 Votes) 3 + 7
• Nathalie Hagman (Neptunes de Nantes – Sweden) (8%, 585 Votes) 1 + 5

Total Voters: 7,241

WORLD FEMALE LINE-PLAYER 2022?

• Linn Blohm (Gyori Audi ETO KC – Sweden) (60%, 2,847 Votes) 7 + 7
• Vilde Ingstad (Team Esbjerg – Norway) (19%, 899 Votes) 5 + 5
• Pauleta Foppa (Brest Bretagne – France) (16%, 766 Votes) 3 + 3
• Ana Debelic (Vipers Kristiansand – Croatia) (5%, 234 Votes) 1 +1

Total Voters: 4,746

WORLD FEMALE GOALKEEPER 2022?

• Silje Solberg (Gyori Audi ETO KC – Norway) (40%, 2,304 Votes)7 + 3
• Sandra Toft (Gyori Audi ETO KC – Denmark) (28%, 1,648 Votes)5 + 5
• Katrine Lunde (Vipers Kristiansand – Norway) (23%, 1,319 Votes) 3 + 7
• Cleopatre Darleux (Brest Bretagne – France) (10%, 555 Votes) 1 + 1

Total Voters: 5,826

WORLD FEMALE DEFENSIVE PLAYER 2022?

• Beatrice Edwige (FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria – France) (61%, 3,046 Votes) 7 + 1
• Kathrine Heindahl (Team Esbjerg – Denmark) (24%, 1,187 Votes) 5 + 7
• Rikke Iversen (Odense Handbold – Denmark) (9%, 428 Votes) 3 + 5
• Kelly Dulfer (SGM Bietegheim – Netherlands) (6%, 302 Votes) 1 + 1

Total Voters: 4,963

LOKE, TOMORI, NEAGU, MORK, VYAKHIREVA, OFTEDAL…

Handball-Planet.com looking for the 11th World’s Handball Player in the history of our Contest. The Norwegian line-player Heidi Loke won prestigious award three times (2011, 2013 and 2014), just like Romanian princess Cristina Neagu (2015,2016 and 2018).

The WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2012 was Hungarian left back Zsuzsanna Tomori, Nora Mork won in 2017 and 2021, Anna Vyakhireva in 2019, while Stine Bredal Oftedal took the title 2020.

WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2023 – PARTNERS

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