Michael Bruun

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Michael Bruun
Personal information
Full name Michael Bruun Pedersen
Born 8 October 1970 (1970-10-08) (age 54)
Skive, Denmark
Nationality Danish Flag of Denmark.svg
Height 200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Denmark (goalkeeping coach)
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
-2000
 Tvis KFUM
2000-2002
 Team Tvis Holstebro
2002-2005
 Bjerringbro FH
2005-
 Team Tvis Holstebro
2011-2012
 Mors-Thy Håndbold
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2008
 Denmark 92 (0)
Teams managed
2012–2017
 Team Tvis Holstebro (assistant coach)
2016–2017
 Team Esbjerg (gk coach)
2015–2017
 Team Tvis Holstebro (gk coach)
2018–2020
 Randers HK (gk coach)
2018–
 Denmark (gk coach)
2020-2021
 Odense Håndbold (gk coach)
2021-2024
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt (gk coach)
2024-
 Aalborg Håndbold (gk coach)
Medal record
European Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Sweden

Michael Bruun Pedersen (born 8 October 1970) is a Danish handballer and current handball coach. Bruun has made 92 appearances for the Danish national handball team, most notably participating in the 2002 European Men's Handball Championship, in which he won the bronze medal with the Danish team.

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Playing career

He was the goalkeeper of Danish Handball League side Team Tvis Holstebro twice from 2000-2002 and again from 2005-2011. [1] In 2009 he won the Danish cup with the club. Otherwise he played for Bjerringbro FH between 2002 and 2005 [1] and at Mors-Thy Håndbold in 2011-12. He retired in 2012 at the age of 41. [2]

Coaching career

After his retirement from playing handball, he became the assistant coach at Team Tvis Holstebro where he was until 2017. [3] [4] Since then he has acted as goalkeeping coach for numerous Danish clubs as well as the Denmark Women's national team since 2018. [5]

In 2021 he became the goalkeeping coach of the German club SG Flensburg Handewitt. [6] In the summer 2024 he left Flensburg-Handewitt and became returned to Denmark to become the goalkeeping coach at Aalborg Håndbold. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 www.haslund.info Michael Bruun retrieved 14 February 2025
  2. ↑ Petersen, Jens (5 January 2012). "Michael Bruun stopper". hbold.dk. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Officielt: Nyt trænerteam i Tvis". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). TV2 Danmark . Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Kasper Eland Marquardtsen (10 May 2024). "Michael Bruun skal fremover være træner for ligarivaler" (in Danish). Holstebro Onsdag. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Endnu et job til Michael Bruun" (in Danish). www.hbold.dk. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Neues Mitglied im Trainerteam" (in German). SG Flensburg Handewitt . Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Aalborg holt Torwarttrainer der SG Flensburg-Handewitt" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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