| Lotte Kiærskou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1975-06-23)23 June 1975 (age 50) Frederikshavn, Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Playmaker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1981–1991 | Strandby/Elling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1991–2001 | Frederikshavn fI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001–2005 | Viborg HK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006–2008 | Randers HK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–2005 | Denmark | 111 | (414) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006-2008 | Randers HK (asplayer-assistant coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overlund GF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014-2015 | Viborg HK (assistant coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| 1 National team caps and goals correct as of 19 April 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lotte Kiærskou (born 23 June 1975) is a Danish formerteam handball player, and twice Olympic champion and former handball coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney,[1] and the2004 Summer Olympics inAthens.[2]
Kiærskov started playing handball at age 6 at Strandby Ellinge IF. Later, she moved toFrederikshavn FI, where she came second in the Danish league in 1997. In 2001 she joinedViborg HK where she won the Danish league in 2002 and 2004, theDanish cup in 2003 and theEHF Cup in 2004.[3]
She missed the2002 European Championship, as she broke her finger the day before the tournament, and was replaced byWinnie Mølgaard.[4] Denmark went on to win the tournament.
She skipped the 2005/2006 season due to pregnancy. Afterwards she joinedRanders HK as aplayer-coach from 2006 to 2008.[5][6] Later she coached the Overlund GF youth team, where her daughter played.[7] From December 2014 she was the assistant coach at her former clubViborg HK.[8] Due to medical operation she stopped coaching in February the following year.[9]
Kiærskou isopenly lesbian. She met fellow handballerRikke Skov as teammates for Viborg HK, and "never had any thought to keep their relationship secret."[10] They were in a registered partnership as allowed by Danish law, but split in 2011.[10][11] Lotte, now retired from handball, works as a teacher in a school in Viborg and has two daughters with Skov.[10]
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