Trine Skovgaard Nielsen (née Jensen, born 16 October 1980) is a former Danish team handball player, Olympic champion and recently sports commentator for TV 2 Denmark. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1]
Jensen has been sports commentator for the television channel TV 2 Denmark since 2011, covering handball events as expert. In 2020 she had to stop at TV2 Danmark, when her brother, Jesper Jensen was appointed as the Denmark women's national handball team head coach, and TV2 did not allow their journalists to interview their own family members.[2]
She has also worked with sales- and sponsorships and as a part of the Graphical design department at the Danish handball club GOG Håndbold, her former club.[3] Since 2022 she has worked as Sporting director for Odense Håndbold.[4]
She is a sister of the former Danish handball player and acting handball coach, Jesper Jensen. Her mother played for the Danish club Vejlby-Risskov Idrætsklub and her father was a handball referee.[2]
Playing career
Trine Nielsen grev up in Hjortshøj, Denmark where she started playing at the local club Hjortshøj Egå IF, before moving to another Aarhus based club, Brabrand IF while playing for the U16 team. Here she started playing senior handball.[2]
She moved to Aalborg DH at the age of 23, but did not even play for 6 months before she was fired. The club believed she had breached the contract. Nielsen did not agree and took the club to court, where she won 500.000 DKK in compensation.[2]
