Denmark national handball team
The Danish men's national handball team represents Denmark in international tournaments in handball.
- 3.1 squads
History
On August 20, 1934 Denmark won his first field handball international match in Copenhagen, which was lost against the German Reich with 5:16. The next countries Match of Denmark on March 8, 1935, received the first indoor handball international match in history. This encounter was defeated Denmark with 12:18 against Sweden.
In attendance at the 1936 Olympic Games in the German Reich renounced Denmark. The trigger for this decision was the statement by the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, that Germany was the inventor of handball. In the next two major events in handball, the handball World Cup in 1938 and the field handball world championship in 1938, went to the Danish selection.
Even after the occupation of Denmark by Germany in 1940, still found Internationals held with Danish participation. After the end of World War 2, the new World Federation IHF straightened back out of the World Championships, which were played out in the hall and to 1966 on the big field. Denmark participated regularly at the world championships in 1967 and recorded with the runner-up at the time the biggest success.
In 1990, the national team for the first time could not qualify for a World Cup. In the following years, in which also the European Championship was played for the first time, the Danes either occupied a place far away from the medal ranks or they missed the qualification. It was only after the beginning of the new millennium succeeded the Danes at the European Championships in 2002 after more than 35 years back to win a place on the podium. In the following years it established itself in the world rankings and won the European Championship in 2008 his first title. Other notable achievements were winning the 2012 European Championship as well as the runners-up at the World Championships in 2011 and 2013 and the European Championships in 2014.
Successes in championships
World cup
- World Cup 1938: 04th place
- World Cup 1954: 05th place
- World Cup 1958: 04th place
- World Cup 1961: 05th place
- World Cup 1964: 07th place
- World Cup 1967: 02 Place
- World Cup 1970: 04th place
- World Cup 1974: 08th place
- World Cup 1978: 04th place
- World Cup 1982: 04th place
- World Cup 1986: 08th place
- World Cup 1993: 09th place
- World Cup 1995: 19th Place
- World Cup 1999: 09th place
- World Cup 2003: 09th place
- World Cup 2005: 13th Place
- World Cup 2007: 03 Place
- World Cup 2009: 04th place
- World Cup 2011: 02 Place
- World Cup 2013: 02 Place
European
- EM 1994 04th Place
- Euro 1996 12th Place
- Euro 2000 10th Place
- EURO 2002 03 place
- 2004 European Championship 03 Course
- EM 2006 03 place
- 2008 European Championship 01 Course ( European Champion )
- 2010 European Championships 05th Place
- Euro 2012 01 Course ( European Champion )
- EM 2014 02 place
Olympic games
- Munich 1972 13th Place
- Montréal 1976 08th Place
- Moscow 1980 09th Place
- Los Angeles 1984 04th Place
- Beijing 2008 07th Place
- London 2012 Eliminated in the quarter -finals
Current national players
Squad
Status: December 9, 2013
Well-known former national player
- Lars Christiansen
- Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen
- January Eiberg Jørgensen
- Anders Dahl -Nielsen
- Erik Rasmussen Veje
- Joachim Boldsen
Former national coach
- Aksel Pedersen (1938-1961)
- Henry Larsen (1961-1962)
- Steen Pedersen (1962-1964)
- Gunnar Petersen Black (1964-1966)
- Bent Jakobsen (1966-1970)
- Knud Knudsen ( 1970)
- Flemming Mollerup Blach (1970 )
- John Bjørklund (1971-1972)
- Jørgen Gaarskjær (1972-1976)
- Leif Mikkelsen (1976-1987)
- Anders Dahl -Nielsen (1987-1992)
- Keld Nielsen ( 1993)
- Ulf Schefvert (1993-1997)
- Keld Nielsen (1997-1999)
- Leif Mikkelsen (1999-2000)
- Torben Winther (2000-2005)
- Ulrik Wilbek (2005-2014)