Helena Elver

Helena Hagesøe Elver (born 1 March 1998) is a Danish handball player who plays for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team.

She made her debut on the Danish national team on 27 July 2019.

She also represented Denmark in the 2015 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship in Macedonia, leading to the trophy. Elver won the best player of the tournament award. The year later she won silver medals at IHF Women's Youth World Championship 2016 in Slovakia.

Career
Elver started her carrier in 2015 at Hellerup IK. In 2017 she switched to the 1st division (second tier) club Gudme HK. She did however miss a large part of season due to cruciate ligament injury. She played here for a year before switching to top flight team Aarhus United.

Two years later she joined Danish top club Odense Håndbold. In 2020 she missed the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship due to her second cruciate ligament injury. In 2021 she would suffer her third ligament injury.

She has won the Danish league twice; in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

Achievements

 * Youth World Championship:
 * Silver Medalist: 2016
 * Youth European Championship:
 * Silver Medalist: 2015

Individual awards

 * Most Valuable Player of the EHF European Under-17 Championship: 2015