Karen Brødsgaard

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Karen Brødsgaard
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Personal information
Born (1978-03-10) 10 March 1978 (age 46)
Horsens, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Line player
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
1998–2003
Viborg HK
2004
Larvik HK
2004–2007
Ikast-Bording Elitehåndbold
2007–2010
Aalborg DH
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998-2007
Denmark 140 (288)
Teams managed
2010–2012
Aalborg DH (assistant coach)
2016–2018
Alingsås HK (assistant coach)
2018–2019
EH Aalborg
2019–22
Odense Håndbold (assistant coach)
2020
Odense Håndbold (interim head coach)
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2000 Sydney Team competition
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Denmark Team competition
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1998 Netherlands Team competition
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Hungary Team competition
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 2024

Karen Brødsgaard (born 10 March 1978) is a former Danish team handball player and manager, and two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney [1] and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she was the captain of the team. [2]

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With Viborg HK she won the Danish League four times in a row in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, the EHF European League in 1999 and reached the EHF Champions League final in 2001.

Managing career

Karen Brødsgaard ended her career at Aalborg DH, and immediately became an assistant coach, a position she held until 2012.

In 2016 Karen Brødsgaard became assistant coach for Alingsås HK men's team in Sweden. [3] In 2018 she switched to become the manager of EH Aalborg in Denmark. [4] EH Aalborg was at the time playing in the second tier the 1st Division. In her first season in charge Karen Brødsgaard managed to get them promoted to the top league. [5]

Her tenure at EH Aalborg did however not last long. During the following season (2019-2020), she announced her intention to leave the club to become assistant manager assistant manager of Odense Håndbold under Jan Pytlick the following season. [6] Only 6 days later she was fired at EH Aalborg, with the disappointing points accumulated cited as the reason. [7] At the time EH Aalborg was in last place in the league with only 5 points to their name. EH Aalborg was relegated that season.

During her tenure at Odense Håndhold she won the Danish Cup and the Danish league in the 2020-2021 season. After three years in Odense, they parted ways in 2022 when her contract expired. [8]

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