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Handball At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
Handball competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics for women took place in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex for the preliminary competition. From the quarter-final stage onwards the women's event moved to the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena. The women's event involved ten teams split in two groups: Group A: Brazil, China, Greece, Hungary, and Ukraine Group B: Angola, Denmark, France, South Korea, and Spain. Denmark won gold medals after beating South Korea in the final 38-36 after extra time and penalty shoot-out. This made Denmark the first nation to win three straight Olympic gold medals. Medalists Qualification Rosters Group stage ''All times are local (UTC+3 UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a UTC offset, time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Following the ISO 8601 standard, ...).'' Group A ---- ---- - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bojana Radulović
Bojana Radulović ( sr-cyr, Бојана Радуловић, ; born 23 March 1973), is a retired Serbian-Hungarian handball player who currently leads the handball academy of Dunaújváros. Often perceived as one of the best players of all time, she was voted IHF World Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003 by the International Handball Federation. At the club level, in addition to numerous domestic successes, she won every major European cup, including the EHF Champions League title in 1999. She won a silver medal with the Hungarian national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and another silver medal at the 2003 World Championship in Croatia. At the 2004 European Championship, played on home soil, Radulovics received a bronze medal after beating Russia 29–25 in the third place match. Career Club Radulovics started her career in her hometown club as a youngster and turned professional by ŽRK Radnički Belgrade, with them she won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 1991. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark Women's National Handball Team
The Denmark women's national handball team is the national team of Denmark. It is governed by the Danish Handball Federation (DHF). In 1997, it became the first Women's Handball team to hold all three major titles simultaneously (The World Championship, The Olympic Championship and The European Championship). Denmark women's handball team is the only team (women's and men's) in handball history to win the Olympic Games three consecutive times, earning the gold medal in 1996, 2000, and 2004. Despite tremendous results, the Danish handball team has seen a steady decline. As of 2024, the team has not won a gold medal since the Olympic Games 2004. However, at the World Championship 2013, the team won its first medal (bronze) at a World Championship since 1997 when the team won gold. It was also the first medal the Danish team had won in 9 years. Since 2021, the team has won medals at five championships in a row: Bronze at the 2021 World Championship, silver a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Brødsgaard
Karen Brødsgaard (born 10 March 1978) is a former Danish team handball player and manager, and two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney"2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008) and at the in , where she was the captain of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Andersen
Kristine Andersen (born 2 April 1976) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,"1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 25 February 2008) and again eight years later at the in Athens."2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikke Petersen-Schmidt
Rikke Petersen-Schmidt (born 14 January 1975) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She played as a goalkeeper. During her national team career she managed to play 104 games for the Danish National team from 1999 to 2006. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team both at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 10 December 2008) – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 10 December 2008) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trine Jensen
Trine Skovgaard Nielsen (, 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."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 25 February 2008) Jensen has been for the television channel TV 2 Denmark since 2011, covering handball events as expert. In 2020 she had to stop at TV2 Danmark, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Kiærskou
Lotte Kiærskou (born 23 June 1975) is a Danish former team handball player, and twice Olympic champion and former handball coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,"2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 25, 2008) and the in . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Mortensen
Karin Ørnhøj Mortensen (born 26 September 1977) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, as well as the 2002 European Women's Handball Championship where she was awarded the MVP MVP most commonly refers to: * Most valuable player, an award, typically for the best performing player in a sport or competition * Minimum viable product, a concept for feature estimating used in business and engineering MVP may also refer to: ... award for the tournament. She retired from the national team in September 2012. Having played 233 matches, she is the second most tenured player on the Danish Women's national team (second to Janne Kolling with 250 matches), and the most matches as Goalkeeper. During her handball career, she educated herself as a physiotherapist and today she has a clinic in Copenhagen. Additionally, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Thomsen
Camilla Ingemann Thomsen (born 1 November 1974) is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She started her career at Ajax København, but played almost her entire career at FC København. She won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup twice with FC København Football Club Copenhagen (, ), commonly known as F.C. København, F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, or simply FCK, is a Danish professional football club based in Copenhagen. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub ..., in 03/04 and in 04/05. She retired in 2005 citing a lack of motivation as the reason. References External links * * * 1974 births Living people Danish female handball players Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics {{Denmark-Olympic-medalist-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikke Hørlykke
Rikke Hørlykke Jørgensen (born 2 May 1976) is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Additionally she won the European Championship 2002, and the Danish league and EHF Champions League in 2004. In 2000, she married the handball player Klavs Jørgensen Klavs is a predominantly Danish masculine given name; which is a variant of Klaus. People bearing the name Klavs include: *Klāvs Čavars (born 1996), Latvian basketball player *Klavs Jørn Christensen (born 1961), Danish sport shooter * Klavs F. .... After her playing career she has worked as a TV-show host and as a personal trainer. References External links * * * 1976 births Living people Danish female handball players Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 21st-century Danish sportswom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Vestergaard
Mette Vestergaard Larsen (born 27 November 1975) is a former Danish team handball player and coach. During her playing career she became two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney"2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved 12 February 2008) and at the in Athens. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Mikkelsen
Henriette Rønde Mikkelsen (born 21 September 1980) is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion, and former politician. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She won the Champions League three times with Viborg HK: in 2006, in 2009 and in 2010. Mikkelsen retired in 2011, but made several comebacks afterwards, the latest in 2014. She still plays handball at amateur-level. At the 2009 Danish local elections she was elected to the Viborg Municipality council for the Social Democrats Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, s .... She decided to end her term prematurely in 2012, due to wanting to spend more time with her family. References External links * 1980 births Living people Danish female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |