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Lotte Kiærskou

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Lotte Kiærskou
Personal information
Born (1975-06-23) 23 June 1975 (age 49)
Frederikshavn, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Playmaker
Club information
Current club Retired
Youth career
Years Team
1981–1991
 Strandby/Elling
Senior clubs
Years Team
1991–2001
 Frederikshavn fI
2001–2005
 Viborg HK
2006–2008
 Randers HK
National team 1
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2005
 Denmark 111 (414)
Teams managed
2006-2008
 Randers HK (as player-assistant coach)
 Overlund GF
2014-2015
 Viborg HK (assistant coach)
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing  Denmark
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1998 Netherlands Team
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 19 April 2012

Lotte Kiærskou (born 23 June 1975) is a Danish former team handball player, and twice Olympic champion and former handball coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,[1] and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2]

Handball career

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Kiærskov started playing handball at age 6 at Strandby Ellinge IF. Later, she moved to Frederikshavn FI, where she came second in the Danish league in 1997. In 2001 she joined Viborg HK where she won the Danish league in 2002 and 2004, the Danish cup in 2003 and the EHF Cup in 2004.[3]

She skipped the 2005/2006 season due to pregnancy. Afterwards she joined Randers HK as a player-coach from 2006 to 2008.[4][5] Later she coached the Overlund GF youth team, where her daughter played.[6] From December 2014 she was the assistant coach at her former club Viborg HK.[7] Due to medical operation she stopped coaching in February the following year.[8]

Personal life

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Kiærskou is openly lesbian. She met fellow handballer Rikke Skov as teammates for Viborg HK, and "never had any thought to keep their relationship secret."[9] They were in a registered partnership as allowed by Danish law, but split in 2011.[9][10] Lotte, now retired from handball, works as a teacher in a school in Viborg and has two daughters with Skov.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 25, 2008)
  2. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 25, 2008)
  3. ^ "Info Om Lotte Kiærskou". champagnebold.dk (in Danish).[dead link]
  4. ^ "Lotte Kiærskou ass. træner i Randers HK". DR (in Danish).[dead link]
  5. ^ "Lotte Kiærskou lagt trænerkarrieren på hylden". Europamester (in Danish).[dead link]
  6. ^ "Kendt håndboldpar skilles". Sporten.dk (in Danish).[dead link]
  7. ^ vhk.dk: Lotte Kiærskou nv assistenttræner at vhk.dk (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived (Date missing))
  8. ^ "Heidi Astrup bliver Dalmoses højre hånd". Viborg Folkeblad (in Danish).[dead link]
  9. ^ a b c Esselink, Jean Ann (7 August 2012). "2012 Olympics: Who Are The LGBT Athletes? Day Twenty — Rikke Skov". thenewcivilrightsmovement.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  10. ^ Idskov, Thomas (12 October 2011). "Kendt håndboldpar skilles". BT (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2017.
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