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Danish handball player (born 1996) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Magnus Saugstrup
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Magnus Saugstrup Jensen (born 12 July 1996) is a Danish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Denmark national team.[1]

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Career

Saugstrup started playing handball in his hometown at Nøvling IF. In 2014 he switched to Danish top club Aalborg Håndbold. He won the Danish Championship four times: in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. He also won the Danish Cup in 2018.

For the 2021–22 season he signed a three-year contract with the German club SC Magdeburg.[2] With Magdeburg he won the IHF Super Globe three consecutive times (2021, 2022 and 2023), the German Bundesliga in 2022 and 2024, the EHF Champions League in 2023 and 2025, and the DHB-Pokal in 2024.

National team

He debuted for the Denmark national team on 7 April 2018 against Iceland. His first major international tournament was the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship. The following year he became a World Champion with Denmark at the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship in Egypt.[3] He won the World Championship for the second time in 2023 and for the third time in 2025.

At the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship he won a silver medal and was selected for the All-star team as the best defensive player.[4]

In November 2024 he became the captain of the Danish national team following Niklas Landin Jacobsen's retirement.[5]

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