Jan-Olaf Immel

{{short description|German handball player (born 1976)}}

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{{Infobox handball biography

| name = Jan-Olaf Immel

| image = Jan olaf immel 01.jpg

| nationality = German

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|3|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wiesbaden, East Germany

| height = {{height|m=2.02|precision=0}}

| position = Left back

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = TuS Dotzheim

| years1 =

| clubs1 = TuS Dotzheim

| years2 = -2005

| clubs2 = SG Wallau-Massenheim

| years3 = 2005-2007

| clubs3 = TV Großwallstadt

| years4 = 2007-2009

| clubs4 = TSG Münster

| years5 = 2009-2010

| clubs5 = HSG FrankfurtRheinMain

| years6 = 2010-2011

| clubs6 = DHC Rheinland

| nationalyears1 = 1999-??

| nationalteam1 = Germany

| nationalcaps1 = 105

| nationalgoals1 = 151

| manageryears1 = 2008-2009

| managerclubs1 = TSG Münster

| manageryears2 = 2009-2010

| managerclubs2 = HSG FrankfurtRheinMain

| manageryears3 = 2013-

| managerclubs3 = TSG Eppstein

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalSilver | 2004 Athens | Team Competition }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Men's Handball Championship}}

{{MedalSilver | 2003 Portugal | Team Competition}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championship}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Slovenia | Team Competition}}

}}

Jan Olaf Immel (born 14 March 1976) is a former German team handball player. He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team.[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=26&sp=HAN "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407003625/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=26&sp=HAN |date=2008-04-07 }} databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 2, 2008){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/108672 |website=olympedia.org |title=Jan-Olaf Immel |access-date=15 May 2021}} His team won the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship in Slovenia.

He debuted for the German national team in May 1999 against Belgium.

He missed the 2007 World Championship, where Germany won gold, due to a shoulder operation.{{Web archive | url=http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2200583 | wayback=20070927231214 | text=Ein ganz fieses Kontrastprogramm}}

In 2007 he joined the second tier team TSG Münster, where he became a player-coach.{{cite web|url=http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-1-9-12273.html |publisher=handball-world.com|title=Jan-Olaf Immel wechselt zur TSG Münster und wird 2008/09 Spielertrainer|accessdate=12 April 2015|language=de}} After the fusion with SG Wallau-Massenheim, where the club became HSG FrankfurtRheinMain, he continued in this function.

He retired in 2011.

In 2013 he became the coach of TSG Eppstein.{{cite news|url=http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/sport/lokalsport/handball/13035268.htm|title=Immel trainiert TSG Eppstein|publisher=Wiesbadener Kurier|date=26 April 2013|language=de}}