Joachim Boldsen (born 30 April 1978) is a Danish former

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player. He is European Champion by winning the

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with the Danish national handball team. Boldsen recently played for KIF Kolding København, and has previously played for

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side

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and Spanish league side

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Career

Club career

In Boldsen's earliest career, he played for such clubs as Helsingør IF (from 1993), GOG Gudme (two seasons, 1997–1999),

TV Großwallstadt TV Großwallstadt is a team handball club from Großwallstadt, Lower Franconia. Currently, TV Großwallstadt competes in the 2.Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. The club has seen great success, especially from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. ...

(two seasons, 1999–2001), and Ajax Farum. In 1997 he won the

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with GOG and was named MVP for the tournament. From 2001 to 2007, he played with the

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first league team

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, helping them to win their first championship in 2004. He won the ''DHB-Pokal'' with Flensburg in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2007, he changed to

team

for a single season before switching to

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. With FC Barcelona, he won the ''Spanish Supercup'' in 2008/2009. In 2010 he changed for Danish team AG Håndbold. Here he won the danish championship two times and made it to final4 in champions league.

National handball team career

Boldsen had his debut on the Danish national handball team on August 23, 1998, and in the following ten years he played 186 matches for the team, scoring 405 goals. On September 30, 2008, he announced that he was resigning from the national team due to the increased traveling hours following his change to FC Barcelona. In his career, he was part of winning the 2008 European Championship, and part of the bronze winning team in the 2007 World Championship as well as bronze in the European Championships in

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, and

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. Boldsen played at the

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in Beijing, where Denmark reached the quarter-finals, and placed seventh after being eliminated by

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. As a junior, Boldsen became Junior European Champion with Denmark in 1996, and Junior World Champion in 1997.

Personal life

Boldsen is the son of former national-team handball player, Steen Boldsen. He is married to Nancy Rietveld Boldsen, with whom he has the daughter Fleur. He has participated in TV 2's ''

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'', the Danish version of ''

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'', but had to withdraw due to an injury he got at handball practice.

References

External links

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(archived) * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boldsen, Joachim 1978 births Living people Danish male handball players Danish expatriate handball players in Spain FC Barcelona Handbol players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players Olympic handball players for Denmark Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Liga ASOBAL players Aalborg Håndbold players GOG players Sportspeople from Helsingør Handball players from the Capital Region of Denmark Danish expatriate handball players in Germany