Ulrik Wilbek

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ulrik Wilbek
Occupation	Handball Coach
Date Of Birth	Apr 13, 1958(1958-04-13)
Age	66
Birthplace	Tunis
Country	Denmark
Birth City	Tunis
Horoscope	Aries

Ulrik Wilbek Biography

Ulrik Wilbek is one of the most popular and richest Handball Coach who was born on April 13, 1958 in Tunis, Tunis, Denmark. Ulrik Wilbek (born 13 April 1958, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a former Danish team handball coach and current politician. He is the most successful Danish team handball coach ever, having won 2 European championships with the men and 2 European championships, 1 World championship and 1 Olympic gold medal with the women.

Ulrik Wilbek was a member of the city council of Viborg for the political party Venstre from 1998 to 2001.

After five extremely successful years as national coach, Wilbek again turned towards club coaching. He was reappointed as coach for Viborg HK’s elite women, and again he showed his excellence: The team became national champions for four consecutive years and reached the final in the 2001 EHF Champions League.

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.

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 was the first time in handball history that a national team held all 3 major titles at the same time and only 2 other national teams have accomplished it since. It also marked the end of Wilbek’s career as coach for the women’s national team, having won everything.

Ulrik Wilbek Net Worth

Ulrik Wilbek is one of the richest Handball Coach from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ulrik Wilbek 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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.

Wilbek’s initial work as a handball coach was in his own club, Virum Sorgenfri Håndboldklub, in 1985–88 (elite men). Just turned 30, he came to Viborg HK as a coach for the ambitious women’s team, which by then had just been promoted to the Danish top league. Within a few years, he led the club to their first medals (silver in 1991), and the Danish National team now wanted him as a coach for the women’s team.

He now needed new challenges and turned towards the club’s men’s team in the early 2000s. This marked Wilbek’s least successful period as a coach with no medals won. But he was still popular within the national handball association, and in 2005 he was appointed coach of the national men’s team. In 2006 he led the team to a 3rd-place finish at the European Championships and in 2007 they finished 3rd in The World Championship. In 2008 he led the team to first place in the 2008 European Men’s Handball Championship.

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Facts & Trivia

Ulrik Ranked on the list of most popular Handball Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Denmark. Ulrik Wilbek celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.