Sven-Tore Jacobsen

{{short description|Norwegian handball player and coach (born 1954)}}

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Sven-Tore Jacobsen (born 18 August 1954) is a former Norwegian team handball player, and former head coach for the Norway women's national handball team.

Career

Jacobsen played 33 matches for the Norway men's national handball team between 1975 and 1978.{{cite web|url=http://www.handball.no/Statistikk_Landskamper.asp?LagId=6012&SpillerId=10780 |title=Landskampstatistikk. Totaloversikt for Jacobsen, Sven-Tore |publisher=Norwegian Handball Federation |date= |language=Norwegian |access-date=26 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223053635/http://www.handball.no/Statistikk_Landskamper.asp?LagId=6012&SpillerId=10780&VS= |archive-date=23 December 2013 |df= }}

As coach from 1984 to 1993 he led the national team at the World Women's Handball Championship to a Bronze medal in 1986, and silver medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

He has worked for the Trondheim branch of the agricultural cooperative Felleskjøpet, and as CEO for the wholesaler Maske Gruppen.{{cite web |url=http://www.tronderbladet.no/nyheter/article1170769.ece |title=Sven Tore Jacobsen på Skaun-toppen |work=Trønderbladet|year=2008|accessdate=30 December 2008}}