Lotte Kiærskou

Lotte Kiærskou (born 23 June 1975) is a Danish former team handball player, and twice Olympic champion and former handball coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Kiærskou is openly lesbian. She met fellow handballer Rikke Skov as teammates for Viborg HK, and "never had any thought to keep their relationship secret." They were in a registered partnership as allowed by Danish law. but split in 2011. Lotte, now retired, she works as a teacher in a school in Viborg gave birth to the ex-couple’s two daughters (Caroline in 2006, and Anna in 2008).

Handball career
Kiærskov started playing handball at age 6 at Strandby Ellinge IF. Later she moved to Northern Jutland side Frederikshavn FI, where she came second in the Danish league in 1997. In 2001 she joined Danish top club Viborg HK. Here she won the Danish league in 2002 and 2004, the Danish cup in 2003 and the EHF Cup in 2004.

She skipped the 2005/2006 season due to pregnancy. Afterwards she joined Randers HK as a player-coach from 2006 to 2008. . Later she coached the Overlund GF youth team, where her daughter played. From December 2014 she was the assistent coach at her former club Viborg HK. Due to medical operation she stopped as coach already in February the following year.