Martine Smeets

Martine Smeets (born 5 May 1990) is a Dutch former handballer who played as a left wing for the Dutch national team.

She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.

Career Smeets started playing handball at Stevo Geesteren in 1995. In 2007 she joined E&O Emmen, and in 2008 she joined SV Dalfsen Handbal. Here she won the Dutch Championship in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and the Dutch Cup in 2011 and 2012.

In 2013 she joined German team Thüringer HC. Here she won the 2014 and 2015 Bundesliga. In 2015 she joined league rivals SG BBM Bietigheim. Here she won the 2017 Bundesliga.

In 2018 she joined Norwegian Molde HK. In January 2020 she moved to French top team Metz Handball to replace the injured Manon Houette. In 2020 she joined Romanian CSM Bucuresti. Here she won the 2021 Romanian Championship and the 2022 Romanian Handball Cup. In 2022 she retired due to a knee injury.

National team Smeets' first major international tournament was the 2013 World Championship. A year later she played at the 2014 European Championship.

She also represented Netherlands at the 2016 Olympics. A year later she won bronze medals at the 2017 World Championship. She won another bronze medal at the 2018 European Championship.

At the 2019 World Championship she won gold medals, which was the first for Netherlands. She retired from the Dutch national team shortly after due to a Cruciate ligament injury.

Honours Dutch Championship Winner: 2010, 2011, 2012 Dutch Cup: Winner: 2011, 2012 German Championship Winner: 2014, 2015, 2017 Romanian Championship Winner: 2021 Romanian Cup Winner: 2022 EHF Cup: Finalist: 2017 World Championship: Gold Medalist: 2019 Silver Medalist: 2015 Bronze Medalist: 2017 European Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2018