Marianne Florman

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Marianne Florman (born 1 June 1964) is a Danish former team handball player and Olympic champion, journalist, author and personal coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[1] With the Danish national team she also won the European Championship twice.

Career

Handball

She started playing handball at IF Hjorten i 1980 as a Goalkeeper. In 1987 she switched to the 1st Division club Rødovre Håndboldklub. In 1990 she was called up to the Danish national team as a left wing.[2]

By 1997 she began to lose her spot on the national team. She retired in 2001 when she became pregnant with her first of two children.[3] After her professional career she has featured at lower levels recreationally.

Civil career

Florman has a degree in Pedagogy from Roskilde University from 1995, a degree in Pedagogical Psychology from the Danish School of Education, and a degree in journalism from Danish School of Media and Journalism.[4]

From 1998 to 2000 Florman was a presenter at Danmarks Radio's sports section. She has since then been a TV presenter at DR1 and dk4, as well as editor of the sports magazine FriPuls.[4] She has also been a part of the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark. She has acted as personal coach in her own company, and she is the author on a list of books on leadership and exercise.[4]

She participated in the first season of the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars.[5]

Bibliography

  • 1996: En jernladys lærdom
  • 1997: Kunsten at gøre sig umage (co-author)
  • 1998: Drømmemanden (co-author)
  • 1998: Husk passet (co-author)
  • 2004: Løbebog for kvinder (together with Jens Hansen)
  • 2017: Vejen til hestens hjerte / og dit eget (together with Mathilde Denning)

References

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