BIOGRAPHY
Dane Lasse Svan had a long and immensely successful career which only ended in 2022 at the age of 38.
Svan began playing handball after trying out a number of other sports - including some success in billiards - and began his career at Sierslev HK before joining GOG at the age of 19. With GOG, he became Danish champion twice and won three Danish cups, finally leaving in 2008 to join SG Flensburg-Handewitt.
Flensburg was to be the last club in Svan’s career. During his time there, Flensburg won the German championship, German Cup, German Super Cup, and most significantly, the EHF Champions League in 2014. The Champions League title followed a thrilling semi-final against Barcelona which went to a penalty shoot-out, setting Flensburg up for an all-German final against Kiel.
When he retired from Flensburg, Svan was the record player for the club in terms of caps and goals.
Svan earned his first selection for Denmark in 2003 and retired after the EHF EURO 2022, with 245 caps and 570 goals behind him.
He is one of only a handful of players to have won Olympic, world and European gold as well as the EHF Champions League, and was part of the Danish sides winning back-to-back world titles in 2019 and 2021. Svan’s last medal - EHF EURO 2022 bronze - came over a decade after his first, world silver in 2011.
But Svan has said that his most memorable title was the 2019 World Championship gold, won at home in Herning and celebrated by tens of thousands of fans in Copenhagen.
Now retired, Svan is working as a mental and performance coach.
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