Trine Nielsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Trine Skovgaard Nielsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Aalborg, Denmark | 16 October 1980||||||||||||||||||||||
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
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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]