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Lois Abbingh
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Lois Abbingh (born 13 August 1992) is a Dutch handball player who plays for Borussia Dortmund Handball and the Dutch national team.[1] She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.[2][3]

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Abbingh started playing handball at V&S Groningen.[4]

In 2009 she joined E&O Emmen, where she was the top scorer in the Eredivisie in the 2009–10 season. This prompted a move to the German Bundesliga side VfL Oldenburg.[5] Here she won the 2012 DHB-Pokal in 2012.

In 2014 she joined Romanian HCM Baia Mare.[6] Here she played for two years, where she won the Romanian cup in 2015, before joining French Issy Paris Hand.[7] In 2018 she joined Rostov-Don..[8] Here she won the 2019 and 2020 Russian championship.

In 2020 she joined Danish side Odense Håndbold.[9] Here she won the Danish championship in 2021 and 2022 and the Danish cup in 2020[10] in a team, that featured many Dutch national team player including among other Larissa Nüsser and Dione Housheer.

In March 2022 she took a break from handball due to maternity leave.[11]

In 2023 she joined Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand.[12] In her first season at the club she won the Norwegian championship and the Norwegian cup. When she club went bankrupt in January 2025,[13] she joined German side Borussia Dortmund Handball on a 1.5 year contract.[14]

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In 2011, she was a key player of the Dutch team that reached the final of the Women's 19 European Championship, just to fell short against Denmark in a close battle to 27–29. Abbingh scored 65 goals in the tournament and won the top scorer's award.[15]

She represented the Netherlands in six World Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Denmark 2015,[16] a bronze in Germany 2017,[17] and winning gold in Japan 2019), in four European Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Sweden 2016[18]) and two editions of the Olympic Games (finishing fourth in Rio 2016 and fifth in Tokyo 2020).[19] At the World Championship in 2017 she became a member of the All-Star team (as the best Left Back of the competition) and she was among the top goalscorers, ranking second with her 58 goals scored.[20]

She was a part of the Dutch team at the 2019 World Championship in Japan, where Netherlands won gold medals, beating Spain in the final 30:29[3][21] In the final of the 2019 World Championship she scored the winning goal for the Netherlands, when she converted a penalty to make it 30:29 with seconds to go.[22] She was the top scorer at the tournament with 71 goals and a conversion of 62%.[23]

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics where the Netherlands finished 5th.[24]

At the 2024 Olympics she was chosen as the Dutch flag bearer together with the basketball player Worthy de Jong. [25] The Netherlands finished 5th for a second Olympics in a row.

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