He was voted as the
IHF World Player of the Year in 2011, 2015 and 2018 by the International Handball Federation. He joined
FC Barcelona Handbol in June 2008. He previously played for
Danish Handball League club
GOG, with whom he won the
Danish championship in 2007. On 2 June 2010, he returned to Denmark to play for
AG København after two years of playing in Spain. After two years and two championships, the club folded in 2012 with Hansen joining the newly formed French team
PSG Handball. He played for PSG for ten seasons before going back to Denmark and
Aalborg Håndbold. Mikkel Hansen is an
Olympic Champion, a
World Champion, and
European Champion with the
Danish national team, winning the
2016 title in
Rio de Janeiro, the
2019 title in Denmark, and
2012 title in
Serbia. He was also selected into the All-Star team of the tournament as the best left back. In 2011, he was a part of the Danish team that finished second in the
World Championships in
Sweden. He was the tournament's overall top goal scorer. In 2019, he led Denmark to their first-ever
World Championships win. He became the top scorer and MVP of the tournament. Later, that same year, he was named the best in the world for the third time of his career. With those 61 goals, he broke the record of most scored goals in one men's olympic handball tournament. During the tournament, he also became the number one goal scorer ever in the men's handball olympics, with a total of 165 goals. In April 2024 Hansen announced his retirement from handball during the following summer ==Personal life==