Kay Smits
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Kay Kirsten Evert Smits | ||
| Born |
31 March 1997 Geleen, Netherlands | ||
| Nationality | Dutch | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | SG Flensburg-Handewitt | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2014–2016 | Limburg Lions | ||
2016–2018 | Wilhelmshavener HV | ||
2018–2021 | TTH Holstebro | ||
2020 | → SC Magdeburg (loan) | ||
2021–2023 | SC Magdeburg | ||
2023– | SG Flensburg-Handewitt | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016– | Netherlands | 80 | (368) |
Kay Kirsten Evert Smits (born 31 March 1997) is a Dutch handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Dutch national team.
He is the first ever men's player of the Netherlands to win the EHF Champions League, Europe's most important club competition with SC Magdeburg in 2022/2023.
He represented the Netherlands at the 2022 and 2020 European Men's Handball Championship and the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship. Smits had to withdraw for the 2024 EHF Euro's due to inflammation of his heart muscle.[1][2]
Although Kay Smits is still an active player, he is already considered as the best Dutch right back ever. His father Gino Smits, sister Inger and brother Jorn are also international handball players for the Netherlands. [3]
Honours
[edit | edit source]- EHF Champions League:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2023
- Handball-Bundesliga:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2022
- DHB-Pokal:
- File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver: 2022, 2023
- EHF European League:
- File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver: 2022
- IHF Super Globe:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2021, 2022
- Dutch Championship:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2015, 2016
- Dutch Handball Cup:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2015, 2016
- BENE-League:
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold: 2015
References
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- ^ De genen van handbalfamilie Smits: 'Later beseffen we hoe bijzonder dit is' Archived 2021-01-28 at the Wayback Machine, NOS, 19 January 2021
External links
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Categories:
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Dutch male handball players
- Sportspeople from Geleen
- Limburg Lions players
- TTH Holstebro players
- Dutch expatriate handball players in Germany
- Handball-Bundesliga players
- SC Magdeburg players
- Handball players from Limburg (Netherlands)
- SG Flensburg-Handewitt players
- Dutch expatriate handball players in Denmark
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen
- Dutch handball biography stubs