Trine Nielsen
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| Full name | Trine Skovgaard Nielsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1980 Aalborg, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Right back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | HC Odense (sports director) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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– | Hjortshøj Egå IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
– | Brabrand IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1998–2000 | Brabrand IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2004 | Ikast-Bording EH | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2005 | Aalborg DH | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2009 | GOG Svendborg TGI | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | HC Odense | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2001–2007 | Denmark | 54 | (87) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2022– | HC Odense (sports director) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trine Skovgaard Nielsen (née Jensen, born 16 October 1980) is a former Danish team handball player, Olympic champion and recently sports commentator for TV 2 Denmark. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1]
Jensen has been sports commentator for the television channel TV 2 Denmark since 2011, covering handball events as expert. In 2020 she had to stop at TV2 Danmark, when her brother, Jesper Jensen was appointed as the Denmark women's national handball team head coach, and TV2 did not allow their journalists to interview their own family members.[2]
She has also worked with sales- and sponsorships and as a part of the Graphical design department at the Danish handball club GOG Håndbold, her former club.[3] Since 2022 she has worked as Sporting director for Odense Håndbold.[4]
She is a sister of the former Danish handball player and acting handball coach, Jesper Jensen. Her mother played for the Danish club Vejlby-Risskov Idrætsklub and her father was a handball referee.[2]
Playing career
[edit]Trine Nielsen grev up in Hjortshøj, Denmark where she started playing at the local club Hjortshøj Egå IF, before moving to another Aarhus based club, Brabrand IF while playing for the U16 team. Here she started playing senior handball.[2]
She moved to Ikast-Bording EH at the age of 20, where she played for 4 years. Here she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2001, the EHF European League in 2002 and EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2004.
She moved to Aalborg DH at the age of 23, but did not even play for 6 months before she was fired. The club believed she had breached the contract. Nielsen did not agree and took the club to court, where she won 500.000 DKK in compensation.[2]
She quickly found a new club in GOG Svendborg TGI, where she under Jan Pytlick won the Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2005.
References
[edit]- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 25 February 2008)
- ^ a b c d "Trine Nielsen" (in Danish). Europamester.dk.
- ^ Sørensen, Karsten (7 June 2017). "Fra GOG til fast på tv | fyens.dk". fyens.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "Trine Nielsen ansættes i Odense Håndbold" (in Danish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
External links
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Danish female handball players
- Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Aalborg
- Handball players from the North Jutland Region
- Olympic handball players for Denmark