Joachim Boldsen


Joachim Boldsen is a Danish former team handball player. He is European Champion by winning the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship with the Danish national handball team.
Boldsen recently played for KIF Kolding København, and has previously played for Danish Handball League side AaB Håndbold and Spanish league side FC Barcelona.

Career

Club career

In Boldsen's earliest career, he played for such clubs as Helsingør IF, GOG Gudme, TV Großwallstadt, and Ajax Farum. From 2001-2007, he played with the German first league team SG Flensburg-Handewitt, helping them to win their first championship in 2004. He won the DHB-Pokal with Flensburg in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2007 he changed to Danish Handball League team AaB Håndbold for a single season before switching to FC Barcelona Handbol. With FC Barcelona, he won the Spanish Supercup in 2008/2009. He now plays for Danish team AG Håndbold

National handball team career

Joachim Boldsen had his debut on the Danish national handball team on August 23, 1998, and in the following ten years he played 186 matches for the team, scoring 405 goals. On September 30, 2008, he announced that he was resigning from the national team due to the increased traveling hours following his change to FC Barcelona. In his career, he was part of winning the 2008 European Championship, and part of the bronze winning team in the 2007 World Championship as well as bronze in the European Championships in 2002, 2004, and 2006. Boldsen played at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where Denmark reached the quarter finals, and placed seventh after being eliminated by Croatia.
As a junior, Boldsen became Junior European Champion with Denmark in 1996, and Junior World Champion in 1997.

Personal life

Joachim Boldsen is the son of former national-team handball player, Steen Boldsen. He is married to Nancy Rietveld Boldsen, with whom he has the daughter Fleur. He has participated in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars, but had to withdraw due to an injury he got at handball practice.