Frederik Lauesen
# Frederik Lauesen

Frederik Lauesen (born 10 November 1972) is a Danish TV presenter, who has been head of sport for the Danish channel TV 2 since September 2008.

## Career

He is well known in Denmark and France for presenting the sports news, including presenting of the Danish coverage of the Tour de France. He worked on TV 2 Sport from 1998, presenting the magazine show LPS, before becoming editorial director of the news department for a year. He was criticised by a women's handball team, FC Midtjylland, in December 2009 after he called the women's game unexciting.

## Personal life

He grew up in Kolding. He lives in Odense with his two children. He met his Greenland-born wife Laila Sylvester Grossmann in 2000, and they married in 2006. She died in November 2007 aged 39 from a heart attack. Lauesen and his family received over one million krone in compensation for her death after making a complaint about the three doctors who treated her.

