Jamina Roberts

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Jamina Roberts
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Roberts in 2016
Personal information
Full name Jamina Caroline Roberts
Born (1990-05-28) 28 May 1990 (age 34)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Vipers Kristiansand
Number 8
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2009–2014
IK Sävehof
2014–2016
TTH Holstebro
2016–2017
IK Sävehof
2017–2018
Érd HC
2018–2020
Randers HK
2020–2022
IK Sävehof
2022–
Vipers Kristiansand
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–
Sweden [1] 254 (679)
Medal record
European Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Denmark/Norway
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Croatia/Hungary

Jamina Caroline Roberts (born 28 May 1990) is a Swedish professional handball player for Vipers Kristiansand and the Swedish national team. [2] [3] As of 2024 she has the second most caps for the Swedish national team ever, and the most of any active players.

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She competed at the 2012, 2016 [4] [5] 2020 and 2024 Olympics. At the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship she reached the final and won a silver medal with the Swedish team. [6]

Roberts is part Aruban through her father, the body builder James Roberts. [7] Her younger brother, Kelvin Roberts, is also a handball player.

Privately she is together with the Swedish handballer Emil Berggren since 2010. In 2020 they had a daughter together. [8]

Career

Roberts started at Swedish club IK Sävehof, where she won the Swedish championship 6 times, every season between her debut in 2009 and 2014.

In 2014 she switched to Danish club TTH Holstebro. Here she played with her former teammates Linn Blohm and Nathalie Hagman. After two seasons in Denmark, her club was in economic trouble and could not extend her contract, and therefore she returned to her old club, IK Sävehof. [9]

In 2017 she joined Hungarian side Érd HC for a single season, before joining Danish club Randers HK. In 2020 she returned to Sweden for a third stint at IK Sävehof.

Since 2022 she has been at Norwegian club Vipers Kristiansand, where she won the EHF Champions League 2022/2023.

Achievements

Best player in the Norwegian woman handball legue 22/23

Individual awards

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References

  1. "Svenska Handbollslandslaget, spelarpresentationer, 8 Jamina Roberts" (in Swedish). Svenska Handbollslandslaget (Swedish national handball team). 10 October 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. EHF profile
  4. Jamina Roberts. nbcolympics.com Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jamina Roberts". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  6. "9th Women's European Handball Championship, Euro 2010, Finals. NOR 25–20 SWE" (PDF). sportresult.com. European Handball Federation. 19 December 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  7. EM-stjärnan: "Han frågade om jag hade glömt tvätta mig..." Aftonbladet (in Swedish)
  8. "Stjärnans osannolika comeback". 16 September 2020.
  9. "Klubblös...och hemlös". 14 August 2016.
  10. "Tokyo 2020 Women's All-Star Team". IHF. Retrieved 8 August 2021.