Martine Smeets

Martine Smeets
Personal information
Born (1990-05-05) 5 May 1990
Almelo, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current club CSM București
Number 24
Senior clubs
Years Team
2007–2008
 E&O Emmen
2008–2013
 SV Dalfsen Handbal
2013–2015
 Thüringer HC
2015–2018
 SG BBM Bietigheim
2018–2020
 Molde Elite
2020
 Metz Handball
2020–2022
 CSM București
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2021
 Netherlands 117 (144)
Medal record
World Championship
2019 Japan
2015 Denmark
2017 Germany
European Championship
2018 France

Martine Smeets (born 5 May 1990) is a Dutch former handballer who played as a left wing for the Dutch national team.[1][2]

She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.[3][4]

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.[5] Here she won the 2017 Bundesliga.

In 2018 she joined Norwegian Molde HK.[6] In January 2020 she moved to French top team Metz Handball to replace the injured Manon Houette.[7] In 2020 she joined Romanian CSM Bucuresti.[8] Here she won the 2021 Romanian Championship and the 2022 Romanian Handball Cup. In 2022 she retired due to a knee injury.[9]

National team

Smeets' first major international tournament was the 2013 World Championship.[10] A year later she played at the 2014 European Championship.[2]

At the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship she won silver medals with the Dutch team, losing to Norway in the final.[11]

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.[12]

At the 2019 World Championship she won gold medals, which was the first for Netherlands.[4]

Her last major international tournament was the 2020 Olympics.[13] She retired from the Dutch national team shortly after due to a Cruciate ligament injury.

Honours

References

  1. ^ EHF profile
  2. ^ a b "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Mayonnade maakt definitieve WK-selectie bekend". handbal.nl (in Dutch). 4 November 2019. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b 2019 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  5. ^ "Smeets wechselt vom THC nach Bietigheim" (in German). handball-world.com. 2 June 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Bietigheims Smeets wechselt nach Norwegen" (in German). handball-world.news. 12 June 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  7. ^ "LBE – METZ Smeets pour remplacer Houette jusqu'en fin de saison". handnews.fr. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ^ "CSM Bukarest rüstet sich mit Weltmeisterin Martine Smeets für die Champions League" (in German). handball-world.news. 22 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Martine Smeets lägger av efter knäskada" (in Swedish). handbollskanalen.se. 26 August 2022.
  10. ^ "XXI Women's World Championship 2013 Team Roster Netherlands" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  11. ^ "XXII Women's World Handball Championship 2015; Denmark – Team Roaster Netherlands" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Martine Smeets (EM 2018)". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Match Team Statistics: Netherlands vs. Japan" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
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