Let Svan

Let Svan

Lasse Svan (2016)
Player information
birthday	August 31, 1983
place of birth	Klippinge , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
height	1.85 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
Jersey number	11
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1995-2002	Sierslev HK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2002-2008	GOG Svendborg TGI
2008–	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on	October 28, 2003
against	Hungary
	Games (goals)
Denmark	214 (502)
As of December 22, 2019

Lasse Svan (born August 31, 1983 in Klippinge , Stevns municipality , Denmark ; born Lasse Svan Hansen ) is a Danish handball player . He is 1.85 m tall.

Lasse Svan, who plays for SG Flensburg-Handewitt (shirt number 11) and plays for the Danish national team, is mostly used as the right winger. Besides, he studied teaching at the Seminary of Skårup.

Lasse Svan started playing handball in the next larger town, Store Heddinge near Sierslev HK. Later he went - together with his teammate Peter Svensson - to the Danish first division club GOG Svendborg TGI, where he also made his debut in the Danish first division in 2002. With the men from the island of Funen , he won the Danish championship in 2004 and 2007 and the Danish Cup in 2002, 2003 and 2005. In 2008 he switched to SG Flensburg-Handewitt in exchange for Kasper Nielsen . With Flensburg he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2012 , the EHF Champions League in 2014 , the DHB Cup in 2015 and the German championship in 2018 and 2019.

Lasse Svan has played 214 caps for Denmark so far. At the European Championship in 2008 , which his country won, he was only part of the extended squad. In 2012 he finally managed to win the European Championship . In summer 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games in London . At the 2013 World Cup in Spain and the 2014 European Championship in his own country, he lost in the final. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was appointed to the All-Star team. He became world champion at the 2019 World Cup.

Lasse Svan is a former Zeeland billiards champion .

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2008/09	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	34	107	1	106
2009/10	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	34	101	0	101
2010/11	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	29	116	1	115
2011/12	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	34	142	2	140
2012/13	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	33	118	1	117
2013/14	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	32	147	1	146
2014/15	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	30th	138	0	138
2015/16	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	30th	159	2	157
2016/17	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	32	168	0	168
2017/18	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	33	144	0	144
2018/19	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga
2008-2018	total	Bundesliga	321	1340	8th	1332

Source: player profile in the handball Bundesliga

Web links

• Profile at SG Flensburg-Handewitt
• Article about Lasse Svan Hansen on the Fyns Amts Avis website (Danish)
• Lasse Svan in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Leave Svan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.haslund.info: Lasse Svan accessed on December 22, 2019
2. ↑ www.london2012.com: Denmark - Team Rosters , accessed August 3, 2012
3. ↑ handball-world.com: All-Star Team with German participation: Mikkel Hansen honored as MVP , accessed on August 22, 2016
4. ↑ https://www.dkb-handball-bundesliga.de/de/import/ Spieler / lasse-svan - / #s1434504-1= 5c38b15f under "Statistics" and "Historically", accessed on January 30, 2019.