The European Men's Handball Championship is the official competition for senior men's national handball teams of Europe and takes place every two years since 1994, in the even-numbered year between the World Championship. In addition to crowning the European champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games and World Championship. The most successful team is Sweden who have won five titles. Spain, however, have won most medals.
Brian Chrøis is a Danish former professional footballer who scored 68 goals in 239 games as a defensive midfielder for Danish club Brøndby IF. He scored a single goal in seven games for the Denmark national football team. Besides Denmark, Chrois has played in Switzerland and Spain.
Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson is an Icelandic handball coach and former player. In 2016, he guided Denmark men's team to gold in the 2016 Olympics. In 2008, he won silver with the Icelandic men's national team at the 2008 Olympic games in China.
Erik Sandvad Rasmussen, nicknamed "The Wizard" and "TryllErik", is a former Danish football player and manager. He played two games for the Denmark national football team. In March 2014 it was announced that he would be a 2014 inductee into the Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame.
Keld Jul. Andersen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Flemming Ladefoged Hansen was a Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Péter Kovács is a former Hungarian international handball player and handball coach.
Ulrik Wilbek is a Danish politician and former professional handball coach who is the incumbent Mayor of Viborg Municipality, serving in office since 2018. He is the most successful Danish team handball coach ever, having won two European Men's Handball Championship and two European Women's Handball Championships, one IHF World Women's Handball Championship and one Olympic gold medal with the women.
Lars Rasmussen is a former Danish team handball player. He was European Champion by winning the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship with the Danish national handball team. He received a bronze medal at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship.
Jesper Jensen is a Danish handball player and currently the head coach of Team Esbjerg as well as the Danish women's national team. He was named World Coach of the Year in 2021 by IHF.
Klavs Bruun Jørgensen is a Danish handball player and coach. As a player, he led FCK Håndbold to the Danish championship in May 2008. He has previously played for many years by Danish Handball League rivals GOG, with whom he won two Danish titles. For a short period he played for German league side SG Wallau-Massenheim
Mikkel Hansen is a Danish professional handball player for Aalborg Håndbold and the Danish national team.
Erik Staffan Olsson is a Swedish handball coach and former player. Olsson, who always played with no 13, was a left-handed right backcourt player with one of the most feared shots of all the elite players. Later in his career he won praise for his great playmaking skills.
The Great Britain men's national handball team is the national handball team of Great Britain and is controlled by the British Handball Association which is jointly operated by the England Handball Association and the Scottish Handball Association.
The 2015 World Men's Handball Championship was the 24th staging of the World Men's Handball Championship, organised by the International Handball Federation (IHF). The final tournament was held for the first time in Qatar, from 15 January to 1 February 2015. The Qatari bid was selected over those of Norway, Poland and France after a vote by the IHF Council on 27 January 2011, in Malmö, Sweden. This was the third time that the World Championship was hosted in the Middle East And North Africa, after Egypt in 1999 and Tunisia in 2005.
Kim Jensen is former assistant national coach for the Danish women's national handball team. He was an active handballer in Brønderslev IF. He scored 91 goals and played 84 national games for the Danish men's national team. He has been an assistant for the head coaches Ulrik Wilbek, Brian Lyngholm and Jan Pytlick. His contract expired after the Olympic tournament in 2012.
Denmark competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark sent the nation's second largest delegation to the Games after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A total of 113 athletes, 63 men and 50 women, competed in 17 sports, although two additional athletes played as team reserves. Handball was the only team-based sport in which Denmark was represented in at these Olympic games.
The handball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 6 to 21 August at the Future Arena in the Barra Olympic Park. The tournaments were won by Denmark in the men's competition and Russia for the women's tournament. The French teams for both competitions finished with the silver medal, and the bronze went to Germany and Norway, respectively.
Denmark competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Danish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era, except for the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Danish team consisted of 120 athletes, 79 men and 41 women, across sixteen sports.
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