Dener Jaanimaa

Dener Jaanimaa

Personal information
Nationality	Estonian
Born	(1989-08-09) 9 August 1989 Tallinn, then part of Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Sport	Handball
Position	Right back
Current club	Al-Sulaibikat
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2007–2009	Chocolate Boys
2009–2011	LIF Lindesberg
2011–2013	EHV Aue
2013–2015	ThSV Eisenach
2015–2016	HSV Hamburg
2016	THW Kiel
2016–2018	MT Melsungen
2018–2019	TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
2019–2020	HC Motor Zaporizhzhia
2020–2021	HBC CSKA Moscow
2021–2024	Daido Steel Phenix
2024–	Al-Sulaibikat
National team Years Team Apps (Gls) 2007– Estonia 70 (176)

Dener Jaanimaa (born 9 August 1989) is an Estonian handball player who plays for Al-Sulaibikat and the Estonian national team.

Career

He started playing handball at the age of 10. Dener's first professional club was the Estonian Chocolate Boys, for which he played from 2007 to 2009. The handball player then moved to the Swedish Lindesberg. After spending two seasons in Scandinavia, Dener received a ticket to the Bundesliga, where he played for the following teams: Aue, Eisenach, Hamburger SV and Kiel, with which he reached the Final Four of the Champions League, as well as Melsungen and Lübecke. From 2019 to 2020, Dener played for Motor Zaporizhia. In 2020, Dener Jaanimaa moved to CSKA . In 2021, he began playing for the Japanese club Daido Steel.