{{short description|Danish handball player (born 1969)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Gitte Madsen | nationality = Danish | full_name = Gitte Madsen | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|3|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Herning, Denmark | height = 174 cm | position = Multiple Positions | years1 = 1990–1991 | clubs1 = Horsens HK (Denmark) | years2 = 1991–1995 | clubs2 = Bækkelagets SK (Norway) | years3 = 1995–1997 | clubs3 = DHG Odense (Denmark) | years4 = 1997–1998 | clubs4 = GOG (Denmark) | years5 = 1998–2000 | clubs5 = Bækkelagets SK (Norway) | nationalyears1 = 1991–1998 | nationalteam1 = Denmark | nationalcaps1 = 120 | nationalgoals1 = 288 | manageryears1 = 2019–2022 | managerclubs1 = Norway U-18 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport| Women's handball}} {{MedalCountry| Denmark }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold| 1996 Atlanta| Team competition }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalSilver|1993 Norway| }} {{MedalBronze|1995 Austria and Hungary| }} {{MedalGold| 1997 Germany|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championship|Team}} {{MedalGold| 1996 Denmark|Team}} }} '''Gitte Madsen''' (born 24 March 1969) is a Danish former team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.<ref name=db-ol1992-handball>[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=24&sp=HAN "1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Handball"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208105249/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=24&sp=HAN|date=8 December 2007 }} ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008)</ref> With the Danish national team, she has also won both the World Championship and European Championship.
==Club career== Madsen played for Horsens HK until 1991. In her last season at the club, in 1990–91 she was the top scorer in the Danish league.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhf.dk/composite-1711.htm |title=Topscorere siden 1965 – Damer |date=9 July 2008 |publisher=Danish Handball Federation |language=da |access-date=15 March 2009|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219005613/http://www.dhf.dk/composite-1711.htm |archive-date=19 February 2009 }}</ref> For the 1991–92 she switched to Norwegian club Bækkelagets SK where she played for 3 years. Here she won the Norwegian league in 1992 and in 1994 with the club.
In 1994 she returned to Danish handball to play for first DHG Håndbold followed by GOG Håndbold. She returned as the last stop of her career to Bækkelagets SK, where she won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 as well as her third Norwegian league title.<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 May 1999|title=Gitte Madsen er friskmeldt|url=https://www.dagbladet.no/sport/gitte-madsen-er-friskmeldt/65520829|access-date=29 August 2024|website=Dagbladet|language=no}}</ref> Her career ended in 2000 after suffering three separate Spinal disc herniations within 6 months.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nicolaisen|first=Jens|date=6 May 2000|title=Gitte Madsen: Det er slut|url=https://www.bt.dk/sport/gitte-madsen-det-er-slut|access-date=29 August 2024|website=BT|language=da}}</ref>
==Coaching career== From 2019 to 2022 she acted as the Norwegian U-18 coach together with Kristine Lunde.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Madsen|first=Mads O.|date=17 August 2019|title=Gitte Madsen og Kristine Lunde bliver ungdomslandstrænere i Norge|url=https://europamester.dk/gitte-madsen-og-kristine-lunde-bliver-ungdomslandstraenere-i-norge|access-date=29 August 2024|website=Europamester|language=da}}</ref>
==References== *{{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/gitte-madsen-1.html|title=Gitte Madsen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519162236/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/gitte-madsen-1.html|archive-date=19 May 2011|url-status=dead}} {{Reflist}} {{Denmark squad 1993 World Women's Handball Championship}} {{Denmark squad 1995 World Women's Handball Championship}} {{Denmark squad 1996 Summer Olympics}} {{Denmark squad 1996 European Women's Handball Championship}} {{Denmark squad 1997 World Women's Handball Championship}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Madsen, Gitte}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Danish women's handball players Category:Danish handball coaches Category:Female handball coaches Category:Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Category:Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic medalists in handball Category:Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Sportspeople from Herning Municipality Category:Handball players from the Central Denmark Region Category:GOG players Category:Handball World Champions