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,[1] and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2]

Handball career

Kiærskov started playing handball at age 6 at Strandby Ellinge IF. Later, she moved to Frederikshavn FI, where she came second in the Danish league in 1997. In 2001 she joined Viborg HK where she won the Danish league in 2002 and 2004, the Danish cup in 2003 and the EHF Cup in 2004.[3]

She missed the 2002 European Championship, as she broke her finger the day before the tournament, and was replaced by Winnie Mølgaard.[4] Denmark went on to win the tournament.

She skipped the 2005/2006 season due to pregnancy. Afterwards she joined Randers HK as a player-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 club Viborg HK.[8] Due to medical operation she stopped coaching in February the following year.[9]

Personal life

Kiærskou is openly lesbian. She met fellow handballer Rikke 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]

References

  1. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 25, 2008)
  2. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 25, 2008)
  3. ^ "Info Om Lotte Kiærskou". champagnebold.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 1 January 2007.
  4. ^ Jan Bonde (6 December 2002). "Winnie Mølgaard kastes ind i EM" (in Danish). Fyens Stiftstidende. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Lotte Kiærskou ass. træner i Randers HK". DR (in Danish). Archived from the original on 7 February 2009.
  6. ^ "Lotte Kiærskou lagt trænerkarrieren på hylden". Europamester (in Danish). Archived from the original on 11 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Kendt håndboldpar skilles". Sporten.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 13 October 2011.
  8. ^ vhk.dk: Lotte Kiærskou nv assistenttræner at vhk.dk (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived (Date missing))
  9. ^ "Heidi Astrup bliver Dalmoses højre hånd". Viborg Folkeblad (in Danish).[dead link‍]
  10. ^ a b c Esselink, Jean Ann (7 August 2012). "2012 Olympics: Who Are The LGBT Athletes? Day Twenty — Rikke Skov". thenewcivilrightsmovement.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  11. ^ Idskov, Thomas (12 October 2011). "Kendt håndboldpar skilles". BT (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2017.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Ki%C3%A6rskou
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