Gitte Sunesen
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Gitte Jensby Sunesen Vilhelmsen | ||
| Born |
11 December 1971 Hammel, Denmark | ||
| Nationality | Danish | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
1989–2004 | GOG Svendborg TGI | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1991–2000 | Denmark | 135 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
2015–2016 | Odense Håndbold (goalkeeping coach) | ||
2017–2019 | Odense Håndbold (goalkeeping coach) | ||
2021– | Odense Håndbold (goalkeeping coach) | ||
Medal record | |||
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Gitte Jensby Sunesen Vilhelmsen (born 11 December 1971) is a Danish former team handball player, Olympic champion and World champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[1] Additionally, She is a two times European Champion; from 1994 and 1996 and World champion from 1997.
Club career
[edit | edit source]Sunesen played her entire career at Danish club GOG Håndbold. During her career she won the Danish league three times and the Danish Women's Handball Cup two times.[2] She debuted for the Danish national team in 1991 at the age of 21.
She missed the 2000 Olympics due to a knee injury suffered a month prior to the tournament in a friendly match against Norway.[3] She retired from playing handball in 2003 due to knee injuries.[4][5] In 2015 she was hired as goalkeeping coach at Odense Håndbold.[6]
Private life
[edit | edit source]During the last few years of her playing career as well as after her retirement she has worked as a primary school teacher.[4] She is married to fellow handball player Keld Vilhelmsen. Her child Lasse Vilhelmsen is also a handball player.[7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Handball" Archived 8 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 12 February 2008)
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Danish female handball players
- Danish handball coaches
- Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
- Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- People from Favrskov Municipality
- Handball players from the Central Denmark Region
- GOG players
- Female handball coaches
- Handball World Champions
- Danish handball biography stubs
- Danish Olympic medalist stubs