Simon Bogetoft Pytlick (born 11 December 2000) is a Danish

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player for

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and the Danish national team. He made his debut on the Danish national team on 4 November 2021, against

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at the 2021–22 Golden League Tournament in

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. In 2023, he was part of the Danish team that won the

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. In the leadup to the tournament Simon Pytlick predicted, that he would be primarily a back-up player who could help "patch some holes". He would however turn out to be a major contributor to Denmark's success including scoring 9 goals in the final. In November 2024, he was named

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of the Danish national team behind Magnus Saugstrup.

Club career

Pytlick started playing handball in the youth ranks of

GOG Håndbold GOG is a professional handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 9 times and the Danish Handball Cup a r ...

in 2012. In 2019 he made his debut in the

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. In his debut season he played 6 matches and scored 10 goals. Due to his teammate Emil Lærke's injury, he got more playing time in the 2019/2020 season, and won the Talent of the year award. The next season he won the Danish championship and was on the all star team. In 2022, he extended his contract with GOG, but only ended up playing one more season, where he once again won the Danish Championship. From summer 2023 he signed a contract with

. In February 2025, he broke his right arm during a match between Flensburg-Handewitt and Toulouse Handball in the

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. Two months later, while still injured, he signed a contract extension until 2030.

Achievements

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: **''Winner:'' 2022, 2023 **''Silver:'' 2019, 2020 *

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: **''Winner:'' 2019, 2022 ;Individual awards * All-Star left back of the Olympic Games:

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* All Star Team as Best Left Back at the

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* All-Star Team as Best Left back Danish League: 2021–22, 2022–23 *Danish Player of the year: 2022 *Danish National team Player of the year: 2023 *

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Best left back of the season: 2022/2023 * EHF Excellence Awards

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: 2022/2023

Personal life

He is the son of former handball coach

Jan Pytlick Jan Pytlick (born 5 June 1967) is a Danish handball coach, and trains Saudi Arabia national team. He was head coach for the Danish women's national handball team from 1998 to 2006, and again from 2007 to 2014. Pytlick has led the women's nation ...

and former handball player

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and brother of the professional handball players

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and Josephine Pytlick. His cousin, Andreas Haagen Pytlick, is also a professional handballer.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pytlick, Simon 2000 births Living people Danish male handball players People from Svendborg Municipality Handball players from the Region of Southern Denmark Danish expatriate handball players in Germany Handball-Bundesliga players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players GOG players 21st-century Danish sportsmen Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Denmark Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in handball