# Michael Damgaard

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**Michael Damgaard Nielsen** (born 18 March 1990) is a Danish [handball](/source/Handball) player for [HØJ Elite](/source/H%C3%98J_Elite_(men's_handball)) and the [Danish national team](/source/Denmark_men's_national_handball_team).[1]

## Career

He has previously played for Danish sides [GOG](/source/GOG_Gudme) and [Team Tvis Holstebro](/source/Team_Tvis_Holstebro).[2]

He debuted for the [Danish national team](/source/Denmark_men's_national_handball_team) in October 2014 and his first major international tournament was the [2015 World Championship](/source/2015_World_Men's_Handball_Championship) in Qatar.[3]

At the end of the 2014-15 season Damgaard had a shoulder injury, that required operation and kept him out for the rest of the season.[4]

The following seasons he joined [SC Magdeburg](/source/SC_Magdeburg).[5]

With SC Magdeburg he has won the [IHF Super Globe](/source/IHF_Men's_Super_Globe) three consecutive seasons; in [2021](/source/2021_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe), [2022](/source/2022_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe) and in [2023](/source/2023_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe), the [German Bundesliga](/source/Bundesliga_(handball)) in 2022, and the [EHF Champions League](/source/EHF_Champions_League) 2023 when Magdeburg beat Polish team [KS Kielce](/source/KS_Kielce) in the final 30-29. In 2024 he won the Bundesliga for the second time.

At the [2016 Olympics](/source/2016_Olympics) he won a gold medal with the Danish team; the first time ever the team won that medal.[6]

## Private

He is the brother of fellow handball players Allan Damgaard Espersen and Morten Damgaard.

## Honours

- **[EHF Champions League](/source/EHF_Champions_League)**: - - [2023](/source/2022%E2%80%9323_EHF_Champions_League) - 2025
- **[EHF Cup/EHF European League](/source/EHF_European_League)**: - - [2021](/source/2020%E2%80%9321_EHF_European_League) - [2022](/source/2021%E2%80%9322_EHF_European_League) - [2013](/source/2012%E2%80%9313_EHF_Cup), [2017](/source/2016%E2%80%9317_EHF_Cup), [2018](/source/2017%E2%80%9318_EHF_Cup)
- **[Handball-Bundesliga](/source/Handball-Bundesliga)**: - - [2022](/source/2021%E2%80%9322_Handball-Bundesliga), [2024](/source/2023%E2%80%9324_Handball-Bundesliga)
- **[German Cup](/source/DHB-Pokal)** - - [2016](/source/2016_DHB-Pokal), [2024](/source/2023%E2%80%9324_DHB-Pokal)
- **[IHF Super Globe](/source/IHF_Men's_Super_Globe)**: - - [2021](/source/2021_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe), [2022](/source/2022_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe), [2023](/source/2023_IHF_Men's_Super_Globe)
- **[Danish Championship](/source/Danish_Handball_League)**: - - 2014
- **[Summer Olympics](/source/Handball_at_the_Summer_Olympics)**: - - [2016](/source/Handball_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_tournament)

## References

1. [EHF profile](http://www.eurohandball.com/player/535207)

1. ["Statistic Men's National Team. Team Roster, Denmark"](http://www.dhf.dk/Landshold/herre-a-landsholdet/truppen). [DHF](/source/Danish_Handball_Federation). Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. ["Tidligere OL-vinder bekræfter: - Team Sydhavsøerne er en mulighed."](https://folketidende.dk/sport/damgaard-bekraefter-team-sydhavsoeerne-er-en-mulighed?) (in Danish). *folketidende.dk*. 20 February 2025.

1. ["Michael Damgaard skal opereres"](https://www.tvmidtvest.dk/holstebro/michael-damgaard-skal-opereres) (in Danish). TV Midt/Vest. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2025.

1. ["Magdeburg holt dänischen Toptorjäger"](https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-1-1-68855.html) (in German). handball-world.news. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.

1. Bo Bentsen (21 August 2016). ["Danmark slår Frankrig i OL-finalen og vinder historisk guld"](https://sport.tv2.dk/haandbold/2016-08-21-danmark-slaar-frankrig-i-ol-finalen-og-vinder-historisk-guld) (in Danish). *sport.tv2.dk*. [TV2 Danmark](/source/TV2_Danmark). Retrieved 5 March 2025.

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