Mads Lind (born 7 July 1980) is a retired Danish

handballer 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 goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thro ...

, who played for

Danish Handball League The Herreligaen (men's league), formerly known as Herrehåndboldligaen (men's handball league), is the men's top Danish professional handball league. The winners of the Herreligaen are recognised as the Danish men's handball champions. The curr ...

side

Aarhus GF Aarhus Gymnastikforening (; commonly known as AGF ) is a professional sports club based in Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark. Founded in 1880, it is one of the oldest clubs in the country where gymnastics and fencing were featured as its main sports. How ...

and Århus Håndbold. He played for the club since its founding in 2001 until the new professional merger that founded the new Århus Håndbold club. Mads was captain for Århus Håndbold until he retired from professional handball in 2015. When he retired he had both the club record for most matches with 321 and most goals with 850. In 2011 the Danish club

Aalborg Håndbold Aalborg Handball () is a professional handball club from Aalborg, Denmark that competes in the Danish Handball League. Aalborg Håndbold play their home games in the Gigantium arena in Aalborg – known as Jutlander Bank Arena for sponsorship rea ...

sued him for breaching his contract, claiming that he had signed a two year contract with the club, which he did not intend to fulfill. Aalborg Håndbold dropped the case two weeks later. In 2002, Lind was issued a two-year ban from handball after testing positive for the use of

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. It was the first doping case in Danish handball. In 2021 he became the sporting director at

Skanderborg Aarhus Håndbold Skanderborg is a town in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark. It is situated on the north and north eastern brinks of #The lake, Skanderborg Lake and there are several smaller ponds and bodies of water within the city itself, like Lillesø, Sortes ...

, a club created in a fusion involving his former club

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