Career
Tanderup"s career as a handball player commenced when joining Brabrand IF"s youth team After one season, she returned to Denmark where she spent the rest of her career at Viborg Hong Kong. In 1997 she managed to reach the Champions League finals with Viborg Hong Kong, but the team lost to March Valencia. During her sports career, Tandrup 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.
After several years out of public view, she started studying nutrition in 2008 and works as a nutritionist now. In her book “Minister vej til et sundt liv” (Danish: “My way to a healthy life”) published in 2013, she describes the shift in focus in her life following the end of her sports career.