Tanderup's career as a handball player commenced when joining
Brabrand IF's youth team. Shortly after being drafted to the senior team, she had a stint with the long-reigning champion of the Austrian league
Hypobank Samsung (later renamed to Hypo Niederösterreich) where she won the league championship as well as the
Champions League. After one season, she returned to Denmark, where she spent the rest of her career at
Viborg HK. While at Viborg HK, the team won the Danish Championship four times in a row, became three-times Danish Cup winner and won the
EHF Cup in 1994. In 1997 she managed to reach the Champions League finals with Viborg HK, but the team lost to
Mar Valencia. Tanderup received a
gold medal at the
1996 Summer Olympics with the
Danish national team, became
World Champion at the
1997 World Championship and is a two-times
European Champion. During her sports career, Tanderup struggled with several injuries to her knee. Eventually, 25 years of age, her handball career came to an abrupt end at the 1997 World Championship, when she suffered a fatal knee injury causing chronic pain ever since. == Private life ==