He met success immediately in the position, when he won silver medals at the
1998 European Women's Handball Championship despite the fact, that recently a long list of established players had decided to retire. He won back-to-back Olympic gold medals as well as gold at the
2002 European Women's Handball Championship and silver at the
2004 European Women's Handball Championship. In 2005 he rejoined his former club
GOG Håndbold. He did however not have much success, as the club finished the season in the middle of the table. In February 2007 he was once again hired as the
Denmark when
Brian Lyngholm decided to withdraw. It was initially only ment to be a temporary return, but in March 2007 he decided to quit his GOG position to focus 100% on the national team. He signed a five-year agreement up to and including the
2012 Olympics. In the end he was the Danish national coach until 2014. ==After the Danish National Team==