Trine Nielsen

Trine Nielsen
Personal information
Full name Trine Skovgaard Nielsen
Born (1980-10-16) 16 October 1980 (age 44)
Aalborg, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club HC Odense (sports director)
Youth career
Team
Hjortshøj Egå IF
Brabrand IF
Senior clubs
Years Team
1998–2000
Brabrand IF
2000–2004
Ikast-Bording EH
2004–2005
Aalborg DH
2005–2009
GOG Svendborg TGI
2011–2013
HC Odense
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2007
Denmark 54 (87)
Teams managed
2022–
HC Odense (sports director)
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing  Denmark
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2002 Denmark Team competition

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]

  1. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback MachinedatabaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 25 February 2008)
  2. ^ a b "Trine Nielsen" (in Danish). Europamester.dk.
  3. ^ Sørensen, Karsten (7 June 2017). "Fra GOG til fast på tv | fyens.dk". fyens.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Trine Nielsen ansættes i Odense Håndbold" (in Danish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2024.