Kasper Hvidt

Kasper Hvidt
Personal information
Full name	Kasper Hvidt
Born	(1976-02-06) 6 February 1976 (age 48) Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1996-1997	Ajax København
1997-1998	CB Cangas
1998-2000	TBV Lemgo
2000-2004	CB Ademar León
2004-2007	Portland San Antonio
2007-2009	FC Barcelona
2009-2010	FCK Håndbold
2010-2012	AG København
2012-2017	KIF Kolding København
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996-2010	Denmark	219	(1)
Medal record Men's Handball Representing   Denmark World Championships 2007 Germany Team European Championships 2008 Norway Team 2006 Switzerland Team 2004 Slovenia Team 2002 Sweden Team Junior World Championship 1997 Turkey [1] Team Junior European Championship 1996 Romania

Kasper Hvidt (born 6 February 1976) is a Danish retired handball goalkeeper, who last played for KIF Kolding and previous Danish national team. He was selected as the best keeper for the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship, where he also won Gold medals with the Danish national team. ^[2] From 2004 to 2010 he was the captain of the Danish national team. ^[3]

Playing career

Kasper Hvidt started his career at the Copenhagen based clubs BK Ydun and Frederiksberg IF. In 1997/1998 he played a season at Ajax København, before moving to Spanish club CB Cangas, where he played for a season. He then joined German side TBV Lemgo. After another year he moved to Ademar León in Spain where he would play for 5 years. In this period he won both the Spanish ASOBAL League and the Copa del Rey de Balonmano.

From 2004 to 2007 he played for Portland San Antonio where he once again won the Spanish league.

His last stop before returning to Denmark was FC Barcelona Handbol where he played from 2007 to 2009. After Barcelona he considered retiring, but was convinved by an offer from the newly founded team AG København. ^[4] He did however choose to retire from the Danish national team. When AG København went bankrupt, and thus fused with KIF Kolding to become KIF Kolding København in 2012, he would then follow his club to join KIF Kolding København. He played there for five more seasons before retiring in 2017. ^[3] When he retired, he said it was not a hard decision, as he had accomplished "more or less everything, a handball goalkeeper can achieve." ^[3]

Post-playing career

Hvidt has been engaged in various organisations around handball, including being on the board of Team Danmark and the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark from 2005–2008. ^[5] He has also been on the board of the Danish labour union for professional handballers, Håndbold Spiller Foreningen.

He was Director of Sports at Astralis Group, the group behind Astralis and Origen, from August 2017 to June 2023. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. "IHF Men's Junior World Championship" (PDF). IHF . Retrieved 5 September 2005.
2. "All-Star Team". EHF. 27 January 2008. Archived from the original on 30 January 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
3. "Kasper Hvidt stopper karrieren efter sæsonen". Århus Stiftstidende (in Danish). 7 November 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
4. Moshage, Bo (16 December 2008). "Kasper Hvidt vender hjem til FCK". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
5. "Kasper Hvidt". Forfatterforedrag (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
6. "Contact". Astralis Group. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
7. "After more than 6 years: Astralis and Kasper Hvidt go their separate ways". Astralis. 21 June 2023.