Trine Nielsen

Trine Skovgaard Nielsen (née Jensen, born 16 October 1980) is a former Danish team handball player, Olympic champion and recently sports commentator for TV 2 Denmark. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.^[1]

Trine Nielsen
Personal information
Full name	Trine Skovgaard Nielsen
Born	(1980-10-16) 16 October 1980 (age 44) Aalborg, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	HC Odense (sports director)
Youth career
Team
–	Hjortshøj Egå IF
–	Brabrand IF
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1998–2000	Brabrand IF
2000–2004	Ikast-Bording EH
2004–2005	Aalborg DH
2005–2009	GOG Svendborg TGI
2011–2013	HC Odense
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2007	Denmark	54	(87)
Teams managed
2022–	HC Odense (sports director)
Medal record Women's handball Representing  Denmark Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team competition European Championship 2002 Denmark Team competition

Jensen has been sports commentator for the television channel TV 2 Denmark since 2011, covering handball events as expert. In 2020 she had to stop at TV2 Danmark, when her brother, Jesper Jensen was appointed as the Denmark women's national handball team head coach, and TV2 did not allow their journalists to interview their own family members.^[2]

She has also worked with sales- and sponsorships and as a part of the Graphical design department at the Danish handball club GOG Håndbold, her former club.^[3] Since 2022 she has worked as Sporting director for Odense Håndbold.^[4]

She is a sister of the former Danish handball player and acting handball coach, Jesper Jensen. Her mother played for the Danish club Vejlby-Risskov Idrætsklub and her father was a handball referee.^[2]

Playing career

Trine Nielsen grev up in Hjortshøj, Denmark where she started playing at the local club Hjortshøj Egå IF, before moving to another Aarhus based club, Brabrand IF while playing for the U16 team. Here she started playing senior handball.^[2]

She moved to Ikast-Bording EH at the age of 20, where she played for 4 years. Here she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2001, the EHF European League in 2002 and EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2004.

She moved to Aalborg DH at the age of 23, but did not even play for 6 months before she was fired. The club believed she had breached the contract. Nielsen did not agree and took the club to court, where she won 500.000 DKK in compensation.^[2]

She quickly found a new club in GOG Svendborg TGI, where she under Jan Pytlick won the Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2005.

References

1. "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 25 February 2008)
2. "Trine Nielsen" (in Danish). Europamester.dk.
3. Sørensen, Karsten (7 June 2017). "Fra GOG til fast på tv | fyens.dk". fyens.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 September 2024.
4. "Trine Nielsen ansættes i Odense Håndbold" (in Danish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2024.

External links

• Trine Jensen at the European Handball Federation
• Trine Jensen at Olympedia