Rikke Petersen-Schmidt (born 14 January 1975) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion.

[1][2][3] Rikke Schmidt started playing handball at HK 71 Egernsund.

Her top level career started at KIF Kolding.

[4] She retired in 2007, but decided to unretire to join KIF Kolding when Christine Lindemann was hit by injuries.

A third time she would rejoin the professional handball world, when she joined Horsens HK in 2019, when Claudia Rompen was injured.