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Torsten Jansen

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Torsten Jansen
Personal information
Born (1976-12-23) 23 December 1976 (age 47)
Adenau, Germany
Nationality German
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Left Wing
Number 5
Youth career
Years Team
1982-1992
TV Witzhelden
1992-1994
Wermelskirchener TV
Senior clubs
Years Team
1994-1995
TUSEM Essen
1995-2001
SG Solingen
2001-2003
HSG Nordhorn
2003-2015
HSV Hamburg
2015-2016
THW Kiel
2016-2017
Handball Sport Verein Hamburg
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999-
Germany 178 (503)
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Men's Handball
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team Competition
World Men's Handball Championship
Gold medal – first place 2007 Germany Team Competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2004 Slovenia Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2002 Sweden Team Competition

Torsten "Toto" Jansen (born December 23, 1976 in Adenau, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a former German handballer, who spent the majority of his career playing for HSV Hamburg in the Bundesliga. He was also a regular member of the German national team. In March 2017 he took over as head coach of the Handball Sport Verein Hamburg.

He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and also represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1] Jansen became a World champion in 2007, and European champion in 2004.[2]

References

  1. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 2, 2008)
  2. ^ Staff (4 July 2008), Team Hamburg - Athleten (in German), Team Hamburg of the Hamburg Sport Federation and the Olympic point Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein, archived from the original on 16 August 2008, retrieved 17 August 2008