Jan Olaf Immel (born 14 March 1976) is a former

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team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...

player. He received a silver medal at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

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with the German national team."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 2, 2008) His team won the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship in Slovenia. He debuted for the German national team in May 1999 against Belgium. He missed the 2007 World Championship, where Germany won gold, due to a shoulder operation. In 2007 he joined the second tier team TSG Münster, where he became a

player-coach A player–coach (also playing coach, captain–coach, or player–manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Player–coaches may be head coaches or assistant coaches, and they may make chang ...

. After the fusion with

SG Wallau-Massenheim SG Wallau-Massenheim was a team handball club from Wallau (which belongs to Hofheim) east of Wiesbaden, Germany. It was a union of the two clubs ''TV Wallau'' and ''TuS Massenheim''. Today they play in German lower leagues. The club's biggest ...

, where the club became HSG FrankfurtRheinMain, he continued in this function. He retired in 2011. In 2013 he became the coach of TSG Eppstein.

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* 1976 births Living people German male handball players Olympic handball players for Germany Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-handball-Olympic-medalist-stub