Elke Karsten

Elke Karsten
Personal information
Full nameElke Josselinne Karsten
Born (1995-05-15) 15 May 1995 (age 31)
Quilmes, Argentina
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
SportHandball
PositionLeft back
Current clubfree
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2013–2016AACF Quilmes
2016–2017CBF Málaga Costa del Sol
2017–2019BM Bera Bera
2019–2021Debreceni VSC
2021–2022Molde Elite
08-12/2022Bourg-de-Péage DHB
01/2023–BM Bera Bera
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013– Argentina 129 (451)
Medal record
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place2015 TorontoTeam
Silver medal – second place2019 LimaTeam
Silver medal – second place2023 SantiagoTeam
Pan American Championship
Silver medal – second place2017 Argentina
Bronze medal – third place2015 Cuba
South and Central American Championship
Silver medal – second place2018 Brazil
Silver medal – second place2021 Paraguay
Silver medal – second place2022 Argentina
Pan American Junior Championship
Bronze medal – third place2014 Argentina
Updated on 3 August 2024

Elke Josselinne Karsten (born 15 May 1995) is an Argentine handball player for Molde Elite and the Argentina women's national handball team.

Career

Karsten started playing handball at Asociación Alemana de Cultura Física de Quilmes. In 2016 she joined the Spanish team CBF Málaga Costa del Sol. A year later she joined BM Bera Bera in the top division. Here she won the Spanish Championship in her first season.

In 2019 she joined the Hungarian team Debreceni VSC.

In 2021 she joined Molde HK in Norway. She played for the club for one season, where she reached the final of the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup, where they lost to Vipers Kristiansand.

She then signed for French team Bourg-de-Péage DHB. When the team declared bankruptcy in December 2022, she returned to BM Bera Bera in January 2023. With the team she won the Spanish Championship in 2024 and 2025 as well as the Spanish Cup in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

After a shoulder operation in the summer of 2026, she took a half year's break from handball.

National team

Karsten made her debut for the Argentina national team in 2013, and the same year she represented them at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia.

At the 2015 Pan American Women's Handball Championship she won a silver memdal. Later the same year she represented Argentina at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship.

She also represented them at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

At the 2019 and 2023 Pan American Games she won silver medals.

In 2023 she played at the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship, where Argentina finished 20th.

Achievements

Individual awards

References

  1. ↑ EHF profile[permanent dead link]
  2. ↑ "Elke Karsten: Talento, presente y futuro". superhandball.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Elke Karsten: "Era el momento de cruzar el charco"". bmmalagacostadelsol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "EL SUPER AMARA BERA BERA FICHA A ELKE KARSTEN". deportecienporcien.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Elke Karsten: egy argentin Debrecenben". dvsckezilabda.hu (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  6. ↑ "Argentinske Elke Karsten (25) til Molde via ungarsk toppserie". topphandball.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "LBE (Bourg de Péage) – Elke Karsten s'engage avec BDP" (in French). handlfh.org. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "„Ligue Butagaz Énergie : saison terminée pour Bourg-de-Péage qui va déposer le bilan"" (in French). L'equipe. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "super amara Bera Bera suma a Karsten y a la extremo, Louis". berabera.com (in Spanish). 30 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  10. ↑ balonmano.info: Karsten out 6 meses, read 6 July 2026 (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ "XXI Women's World Championship 2013. Team Roster, Argentina" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  12. ↑ "Handball - Athlete Profile: Karsten, Elke". results.toronto2015.org. Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "La Lista de Argentina para la gira por Brasil". handballargentina.org. 12 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "La lista de la Selección Femenina para Río 2016" [The list of the selected female players for Rio 2016] (in Spanish). Argentina Handball Association. 26 July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "Medalla plateada para la Selección Femenina en los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima" (in Spanish). handballargentina.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  16. ↑ "Medalla plateada para La Garra en Santiago 2023". handballargentina.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  17. ↑ "2023 World Championship Team roster: Argentina" (PDF). ihf.info. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.