Karen Brødsgaard (born 10 March 1978) is a former Danish

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

player and manager, and two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

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"2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008) and at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

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, where she was the captain of the team."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008) With

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg, Denmark, Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and Euro ...

she won the Danish League four times in a row in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, the

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

in 1999 and reached the

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final in 2001.

Managing career

Karen Brødsgaard ended her career at Aalborg DH, and immediately became an assistant coach, a position she held until 2012. In 2016 Karen Brødsgaard became assistant coach for

Alingsås HK Alingsås HK is a handball club from Alingsås, Sweden. They currently compete in Handbollsligan. They have won two Swedish championships, in 2009 and 2014. Kits Achievements *Handbollsligan: **''Winners (2)'': 2009, 2014 **''Runners-u ...

men's team in Sweden. In 2018 she switched to become the manager of EH Aalborg in Denmark. EH Aalborg was at the time playing in the second tier the 1st Division. In her first season in charge Karen Brødsgaard managed to get them promoted to the top league. Her tenure at EH Aalborg did however not last long. During the following season ( 2019-2020), she announced her intention to leave the club to become assistant manager assistant manager of

Odense Håndbold Odense Håndbold (in its first season: Odense GOG and after that Handball Club Odense) is a Danish professional women's handball team, that plays in Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's premier women's handball league. The team's home court is Sydb ...

under

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 ...

the following season. Only 6 days later she was fired at EH Aalborg, with the disappointing points accumulated cited as the reason. At the time EH Aalborg was in last place in the league with only 5 points to their name. EH Aalborg was relegated that season. During her tenure at Odense Håndhold she won the Danish Cup and the Danish league in the 2020-2021 season. After three years in Odense, they parted ways in 2022 when her contract expired.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brodsgaard, Karen 1978 births Living people Danish female handball players Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Viborg HK players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Horsens Handball players from the Central Denmark Region Danish handball coaches Danish expatriate handball players in Norway Expatriate handball coaches Danish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Female handball coaches