Brian Lyngholm (Born 22 December 1963) is a Danish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

coach, who acted as the coach for the Denmark Women's national team. Lyngholms tenure has national coach was short. He was seen as the natural successor to

Ulrik Wilbek Ulrik Wilbek (born 13 April 1958, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a former Danish team handball coach and current politician, and mayor of Viborg. He is the most successful Danish team handball coach ever, having won 2 European championships with the men a ...

Jan Pytlick Jan Pytlick (born 5 June 1967) is a Danish handball coach, and trains Saudi Arabia national team. He was head coach for the Danish women's national handball team from 1998 to 2006, and again from 2007 to 2014. Pytlick has led the women's nation ...

. However the results at his only major tournament,

2006 European Women's Handball Championship The 2006 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in Sweden from 7 to 17 December. It was won by Norway women's national handball team, Norway after beating Russia women's national handball team, Russia 27–24 in the final match. This ...

was not satisfactory, with Denmark finishing 11th, which is the worst result for the Danish national team ever. He withdrew from the job a month after the tournament. He was replaced by

, who came back to the position following Lyngholms departure.https://politiken.dk/sport/art4682422/Pytlick-er-tilbage-i-dr%C3%B8mmejobbet

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