Gitte Madsen

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Gitte Madsen
Personal information
Full name Gitte Madsen
Born (1969-03-24) 24 March 1969 (age 55)
Herning, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Multiple Positions
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
1990-1991
Horsens HK (Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark)
1991-1995
Bækkelagets SK (Flag of Norway.svg  Norway)
1995-1997
DHG Odense (Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark)
1997-1998
GOG (Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark)
1998-2000
Bækkelagets SK (Flag of Norway.svg  Norway)
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991-1998
Denmark 120 (288)
Teams managed
2019-2022
Norway U-18
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Atlanta Team competition
World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1993 Norway
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1995 Austria and Hungary
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1997 Germany Team
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Denmark Team

Gitte Madsen (born 24 March 1969 in Herning, Midtjylland) is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. [1] With the danish national team, she has also won both the World Championship and European Championship.

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Club career

Madsen played for Horsens HK until 1991, before switching to Norwegian club Bækkelagets SK where she played for 3 years. Here she won the Norwegian league in 1992 and in 1994 with the club.

In 1994 she returned to Danish handball to play for first DHG Håndbold followed by GOG Håndbold. She returned as the last stop of her career to Bækkelagets SK, where she won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 as well as her third Norwegian league title. [2] Her career ended in 2000 after suffering three separate Spinal disc herniations within 6 months. [3]

Coaching Career

From 2019 to 2022 she acted as the Norwegian U-18 coach together with Kristine Lunde. [4]

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References

  1. "1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta, United States Handball" Archived 2007-12-08 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 12 February 2008)
  2. "Gitte Madsen er friskmeldt". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 8 May 1999. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. Nicolaisen, Jens (6 May 2000). "Gitte Madsen: Det er slut". BT (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  4. Madsen, Mads O. (17 August 2019). "Gitte Madsen og Kristine Lunde bliver ungdomslandstrænere i Norge". Europamester (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.