Heine Jensen

Heine Jensen

Player information
Full name	Heine Ernst Jensen
birthday	February 11, 1977
place of birth	Thisted , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Thisted
0000-0000	Aalborg KFUM
0000-0000	Brønderslev
2003-2005	Stord IL
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2002-2003	Sindal IF (Assistant Trainer)
2003-2005	Stord IL (player-coach)
2005-2007	Sola HK
2007-2008	SV Union Halle-Neustadt
2008-2011	HC Leipzig
2011-2014	German women's national team
2015-2016	HG Saarlouis
2018-2019	Slovakia
2019–	Sandnes HK
2019–	People's Republic of China
As of November 29, 2019

Heine Ernst Jensen (* 11. February 1977 in Thisted ) is from Denmark originating Handball coach .

Career

Jensen started playing handball in his native Thisted. His next two positions were Aalborg KFUM and Brønderslev. In the 2002/03 season he worked as an assistant coach for the Danish women's team Sindal IF. In 2003 he moved to the Norwegian first division club Stord IL. After half a year Stord no longer had a coach and Jensen, who played on the right wing , took over this position. Afterwards Jensen was only active as a stand-by player for a year and a half and ended his playing career in 2005.

In 2005 Jensen took over the coaching of the women's team from the Norwegian first division club Sola HK . With the help of the Danish coach Morten Arvidsson , who was coaching the German Bundesliga club HC Leipzig at the time , Jensen was signed up by the second division club SV Union Halle-Neustadt in the summer of 2007 . After Arvidsson resigned his post in the summer of 2008, Heine Jensen took over as coach of HC Leipzig. Under his leadership, the HCL won the German championship in 2009 and 2010.

The German Handball Federation signed Heine Jensen on March 25, 2011 from his contract, which ran until 2012, as head coach at HC Leipzig as the coach of the German women's national team . Until June 30, 2011, he performed both functions side by side, and has only been national coach since July 2011. Under his leadership, Germany reached the quarter-finals at the 2013 World Cup , but was eliminated there against his home country. On January 7, 2015, it was announced that his contract was terminated retrospectively as of December 31, 2014. In the 2015/16 season he coached the German club HG Saarlouis . From 2018 to 2019 Jensen was in charge of the Slovak men's national handball team . Since September 2019 he has coached the Norwegian club Sandnes HK. In autumn 2019 he took over the coaching position of the Chinese women's national team .

Private

Jensen is in a relationship with the former Norwegian national handball player Mette Ommundsen .

Web links

• Heine Jensen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.dr.dk: Heine Jensen shall be used in the course of the course
2. ↑ handballmagazin.com: Heine Jensen on respect ( memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Blir ny Sola-trener ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ www.handball-world.com: A Dane - unknown in Denmark
5. ↑ Press release from HC Leipzig online, March 25, 2011
6. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Handball players fail because of their own mistakes
7. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Contract with national coach Heine Jensen terminated
8. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Heine Jensen new trainer in Saarlouis , accessed on June 12, 2015
9. ↑ www.wochenspiegelonline.de: Heine Jensen goes , accessed on August 6, 2016
10. ↑ www.dagsavisen.no Trenerkapasiteten Heine Jensen Skal bygge opp Sandnes , accessed on November 29, 2019
11. ↑ www.handball-world.news Women's Handball World Championship - Group D in brief , accessed on November 29, 2019
12. ↑ Hun eller kjæresten må slutte ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Mette Ommundsen - håndboldfødselsdage ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ ekstrabladet.dk: Grønkjærs bedste ven bag tysk succes