Lars Troels Jørgensen (born 3 February 1978) is a Danish retired

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 goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player and current handball coach. He used to play for the Danish national team and the Spanish clubs

SDC San Antonio Sociedad Deportiva Cultural San Antonio was a Spanish handball team based in Pamplona, Navarra. In July 2012, the team resigned from the Liga ASOBAL for the 2012–13 season due to the failure to find a new sponsor, being demoted two divisions ( ...

and BM Altea. Lastly he played for the Danish club

KIF Kolding København KIF Kolding is a professional handball club based in Kolding, Denmark who competes in the Danish Handball League. KIF Kolding has won the Danish Handball League, Danish Handball Championship a record 14 times. It is a part of the broader sports ...

. He retired in 2017. Jørgensen was a defensive specialist, especially on the Danish national team. He won the

2008 European Men's Handball Championship The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark men's national handball team, Denmark won the tournament ...

with the Danish national handball team.

Career

Jørgensen started playing handball at Fladså HK with his first professional club being the Copenhagen based Virum-Sorgenfri. He debuted in the Danish top flight in 1997, where he won the Danish Championship. In 2001 he joined Spanish side BM Altea, when Virum-Sorgenfri went bankrupt. In 2004 he reached the final of 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 ...

with BM Altea, where they lost to German club

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

. Later the same year he joined Portland San Antonio. Here he won the Spanish Championship in 2005, and reached the final of the 2006

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

. In 2009 he returned to Denmark to join AG København Danish Championship in 2011 and again in 2012. In 2012 he switched to

after his contract had expired. Here he won the Danish Championship two more times in 2014 and 2015. He retired after the 2016/17 season.

Post playing career

Immediately after ending his playing career, he became the assistant coach of the Danish women's national team.

References

External links

Official homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jorgensen, Lars T. 1978 births Living people Danish male handball players Danish handball coaches Olympic handball players for Denmark Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics SDC San Antonio players People from Næstved Sportspeople from Næstved Municipality Handball players from Region Zealand Danish expatriate handball players in Spain