Albin Lagergren

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Albin Lagergren
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Personal information
Born (1992-09-11) 11 September 1992 (age 32)
Varberg, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club SC Magdeburg
Number 21
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
–2011
 HK Varberg
2011–2012
 Redbergslids IK
2012–2013
 HK Varberg
2013–2018
 IFK Kristianstad
2018–2020
 SC Magdeburg
2020–2023
 Rhein-Neckar Löwen
2023–
 SC Magdeburg
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016–
 Sweden 118 (351)
Medal record
World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Hungary/Slovakia
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Croatia
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Germany
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 5 January 2025

Albin Lagergren (born 11 September 1992) is a Swedish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Swedish national team. [1]

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Career

Lagergren started playing handball at his hometown club HK Varberg. In 2011 he joined Redbergslids IK for a season, only to return to HK Varberg in 2012. [2]

A season later he joined IFK Kristianstad to play elite handball and develop further. [3] Here he won the Swedish Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

For the 2018/19 season he joined German team SC Magdeburg.. [4] In 2020 he joined league rivals Rhein-Neckar Löwen. [5] Here he won the DHB-Pokal in 2023. The following season he returned to SC Magdeburg. [6] Here he won the IHF Super Globe 2023, the DHB-Pokal and the German Handball-Bundesliga in the 2023/2024 season.

National team

He debuted for the Swedish national team in 2016 and was a part of the team that played World cup qualification matches against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

His first major international tournament was at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he was included due to Johan Jakobsson getting injured. [7]

He participated at the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship, where he once again was included due to a Johan Jakobsson injury just before the tournament. [8]

References

  1. ↑ EHF profile
  2. ↑ "Albin Lagergren". handbollslandslaget.se (in Swedish). Sweden National Team . Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Albin Lagergren går till IFK Kristianstad" [Albin Lagergren to IFK Kristianstad]. hn.se (in Swedish). Hallands Nyheter. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Lagergren klar för Magdeburg: "Det är lite som i Kristianstad" [Lagergren ready for Magdeburg: It is a little bit like Kristianstad] (in Swedish). kristianstadsbladet.se. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Albin Lagergren wechselt zu den Rhein-Neckar Löwen" [Albin Lagergren transfers to Rhein-Neckar Löwen] (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "SC Magdeburg verpflichtet Albin Lagergren" [SC Magdeburg signs Albin Lagergren]. scm-handball.de (in German). SC Magdeburg. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Simon Sjöstrand (15 August 2016). "OS-debut för Albin Lagergren" [Olympic debut for Albin Lagergren] (in Swedish). Kristianstadsbladet.
  8. ↑ "25th Men's World Championship 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
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