Anna Kristensen

Anna Opstrup Kristensen (born 25 October 2000) is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team.

She also represented Denmark in the 2017 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship, 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, and in the 2019 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 6th all three times.

Career Anna Kristensen started playing for her local club Skanderborg Håndbold, before she switched to Danish top club Viborg HK.

At the end of 2022, she signed a pre-contract with league rivals Team Esbjerg, which was supposed to start in the summer of 2023. However, due to Esbjerg lacking options at the goalkeeper position, they agreed that she would join the club already in January 2023. The same season, she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup with Esbjerg and won the Årets Pokalfighter (cup fighter of the year) award.

In November 2025 she announced that she would join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC after the 2025–26 season.

In April 2026 she was injured and was out for the rest of the 2025-26 season. When the other Esbjerg keeper Katharina Filter was also injured, Esbjerg brought Silje Solberg-Østhassel in as a replacement. Despite the injury problems, Esbjerg would go on to win the Danish Championship, beating Odense Håndbold in the final.

National team She made her debut on the Danish national team on 21 March 2019. She did however not initially see much playing time as Sandra Toft and Althea Reinhardt was preferred ahead of her.

Her championship debut came at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship, where she was part of the team winning bronze medals, but she was never a part of the match squad. At the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship, she was part of winning the silver medal, but yet again she never entered the match squad.

She also won bronze medals at the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship, although she was definitely still a third choice behind Toft and Reinhardt, only having played a single match. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Kristensen was a back-up, but never a part of the actual squad.

At the 2024 European Women's Handball Championship Danish head coach Jesper Jensen surprisingly chose to pick her instead of 2021 IHF World Player of the Year winner and Danish national team captain Sandra Toft, winning silver medails. and a part of the All Star Team as best goalkeeper. Toft was later in the tournament called to the squad, when Reinhardt became injured.

Following another injury to Althea Reinhardt, Kristensen entered the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship as the definitive Danish first choice with Amalie Milling as her partner.

Achievements Damehåndboldligaen: Winner: 2023, 2024, 2026 Silver Medalist: 2021, 2025 Bronze Medalist: 2020 Danish Women's Handball Cup: Winner: 2022, 2024 EHF Champions League Bronze Medalist: 2024-25

Individual awards MVP of the European Championship: 2024 Best Goalkeeper of Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/20 Player of the Year Viborg HK: 2020 All-Star Goalkeeper of Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/2020, 2020/2021 Youth player of the Year in Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/2020, 2020/21 MVP of the Danish Women's Handball Cup Final four 2022