Lars Rasmussen

This article is about the Danish handball player. For the Danish politician, see Lars Løkke Rasmussen .

Lars Rasmussen

Player information
birthday	April 9, 1976
place of birth	Hillerød , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
height	1.73 m
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Lyngby HK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Helsingør IF
0000-0000	Viborg HK
0000-2002	Virum-Sorgefri HK
2002-2003	Ajax Farum
2003-2005	GWD Minden
2005-2010	Team Tvis Holstebro
National team
Debut on	January 17, 1998 in Fredrikstad
against	Croatia
	Games (goals)
Denmark	86 (220)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2010–?	Horsens HK
2013-2015	Vendsyssel Håndbold
2015-2017	Ringkøbing Håndbold
2017-2018	Siófok KC
2018-2019	KIF Kolding
As of June 4, 2019

Lars Rasmussen (born April 9, 1976 in Hillerød , Denmark ) is a Danish handball coach . In his playing days, the left winger ran for the Danish national team .

Lars Rasmussen started playing handball at Lyngby HK. He later came to Virum-Sorgenfri HK , where he made his debut in the Danish first division. With the Copenhagen suburban club he won the Danish championship in 1997; in the 2001/02 season he was the league's top scorer. However, when his club had to file for bankruptcy in the same year, Rasmussen went to local rivals Ajax Farum. There he was also top scorer ; However, he was now looking for a new challenge and after only one year moved on to GWD Minden in the German handball league . He stayed there for two years, but won no other titles. In 2005 he finally returned to Denmark, where he joined the Tvis Holstebro team. In 2008 he won the Danish Cup with Holstebro. In the summer of 2010 he left Holstebro and ended his career.

Lars Rasmussen has made 86 appearances for the Danish national team. For a long time he was at most the third choice in the national team behind Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen and Lars Christiansen ; only after the resignation of the former was Rasmussen more active. At the European Championships in Norway in 2008 , he became European champions with his country ; at the 2007 World Cup and the 2006 European Championship , he won bronze with Denmark .

Rasmussen became assistant coach of the Horsens HK women's team in 2010 . He later took over the women's team and the men's team at Horsens HK. In the summer of 2013 he took over as coach of the women's team at Vendsyssel Håndbold . From July 1, 2015 he coached the first division club Ringkøbing Håndbold . In summer 2017 he moved to the Hungarian first division side Siófok KC . From the summer of 2018 he worked as an assistant coach at the Danish club KIF Kolding . In February 2019 he was promoted to coach and held this position until the end of the 2018/19 season.

Web links

• Lars Rasmussen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rasmussen as top scorer at Virum and Farum ( Memento from August 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Rasmussen joins the Minden squad
3. ↑ Rasmussen no longer in the Minden squad
4. ↑ Herre A-Landsholdspillere - Lars Rasmussen
5. ↑ sportenkort.dk: Lars Rasmussen stopper karrieren , accessed on April 10, 2015
6. ↑ sporten.tv2.dk: Lars Rasmussen har fået nyt job , accessed on April 10, 2015
7. ↑ Vendsyssel offentliggør ny træner ( Memento from April 10, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ hbold.dk: Lars Rasmussen på plads i Vendsyssel ( Memento of August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 10, 2015
9. ↑ handball-world.com: Denmark: Former HBL professional becomes first division coach , accessed on April 10, 2015
10. ↑ hbold.dk: Lars Rasmussen bekræfter: Siofok er næste destination , accessed on January 31, 2017
11. ↑ handball-world.news: Former Mindener becomes assistant trainer in Kolding , accessed on June 25, 2018
12. ↑ nordschleswiger.dk: KIF separates from Lars Rasmussen , accessed on June 4, 2019