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Ulrik Wilbek

Ulrik Wilbek
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Ulrik Wilbek, 2007
Medal record
 Denmark
Coach for men's handball
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Spain Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Sweden Team
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Germany Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Serbia Team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Norway Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Denmark Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Denmark Team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Switzerland Team
Coach for women's handball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place Personality Awards Team
Gold medal – first place 1996 United States Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Germany Team
Silver medal – second place 1993 Norway Team
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Austria Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1996 Denmark Team
Gold medal – first place 1994 Germany Team

Ulrik Wilbek (born 13 April 1958, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a Danish team handball coach. He was the head coach for the Danish men's national handball team from 2005-2014. He led the Danish team to win the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship in Norway, the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship and obtained silver at the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship in Sweden, and bronze medals both at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship in Switzerland and at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany.

He is married to former handball player Susanne Munk Wilbek.

Wilbek's first international successes came as coach for the Danish Women's national youth team in the late 1980s. Here he first coached players like Anja Andersen and his wife-to-be Susanne Munk Lauritsen. A few years later, he was asked to be coach for the national A-team, which nearly was closed in the early 1990s due to bad results. Wilbek took the challenge and promoted a couple of the youth players, and the team had its first success as finalist in the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship, losing only after extra time.

In the following years, Wilbek was in the lead of the team, that became one of the most successful national handball teams of all times and at the same time one of the most popular teams in Danish sport. The team was European Champions in 1994 and won bronze medals at 1995 World Championship. The peak of the team was reached at the end of 1997, when the team was reigning World Champions (1997), European Champions (1996), and Olympic Champions (1996). This marked the end of Wilbek's career as coach for the women's national team, having won everything.


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