Torsten Jansen

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Torsten Jansen
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Personal information
Born (1976-12-23) 23 December 1976 (age 48)
Adenau, West Germany
Nationality German
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Left Wing
Number 5
Youth career
YearsTeam
1982–1992
 TV Witzhelden
1992–1994
 Wermelskirchener TV
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
1994–1995
 TUSEM Essen
1995–2001
 SG Solingen
2001–2003
 HSG Nordhorn
2003–2015
 HSV Hamburg
2015–2016
 THW Kiel
2016–2017
 HSV Hamburg
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–?
 Germany 178 (503)
Teams managed
2017–
 HSV Hamburg
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Athens Team Competition
World Men's Handball Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Germany Team Competition
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Slovenia Team Competition
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Sweden Team Competition

Torsten "Toto" Jansen (born 23 December 1976) is a former German handballer, who spent the majority of his career playing for HSV Hamburg in the Bundesliga. He was also a regular member of the German national team. He was known as a good defensive player. In March 2017 he took over as head coach of the Handball Sport Verein Hamburg.

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He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and also represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. [1] Jansen became a World champion in 2007, and European champion in 2004. [2] He has been awarded the Silbernen Lorbeerblatt for his triumph at the 2007 world championship. [3]

Career

Jansen won the Bundesliga 2011 with HSV Hamburg.

Jansen was early in his career known to be a fair play player, but was suspended for 10 matches in 2013 after head butting Ivan Ninčević during a match between Füchse Berlin and HSV Hamburg. He was also fined 15,000 euros for the incident. [4]

In 2015-16 he transfered to THW Kiel to replace Dominik Klein who was out with a long term injury due to a torn cruciate ligament. [5]

Coaching career

On March 29th 2017 he took over the coaching position at his former club HSV Hamburg replacing Jens Häusler. In 2021 he managed to get the club promoted to the Handball-Bundesliga. [6]

Titles

Club

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References

  1. ↑ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 2, 2008)
  2. ↑ Staff (4 July 2008), Team Hamburg – Athleten (in German), Team Hamburg of the Hamburg Sport Federation and the Olympic point Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein, archived from the original on 16 August 2008, retrieved 17 August 2008
  3. ↑ "Handball – WM: Merkel lädt Handball-Weltmeister ins Kanzleramt". focus.de. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Kopfstoß bringt Rekordstrafe für Torsten Jansen" (in German). welt.de. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "THW Kiel verpflichtet Linksaußen Torsten Jansen". thw-handball.de (in German). THW Kiel . Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "HSV-Handballer machen Aufstieg in die Bundesliga perfekt" (in German). ndr.de. Retrieved 22 June 2021.


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