Jonathan Edvardsson

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Jonathan Edvardsson
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Edvardsson at the 2023 Swedish Sports Awards
Personal information
Born (1997-04-07) 7 April 1997 (age 28)
Partille, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
Number 26
Youth career
Team
IK Sävehof
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2014–2021
IK Sävehof
2021–
TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2020–
Sweden 27 (18)
Medal record
World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Hungary/Slovakia
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Germany
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 5 January 2025

Jonathan Edvardsson (born 7 April 1997) is a Swedish handball player. He was part of the Swedish national team that won silver medals at the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship in Egypt. [1] [2] A year later at the 2022 European Championship he won gold medals with Sweden. [3]

With IK Sävehof he has become Swedish champion twice, 2019 and 2021. In the season of 2020/21 he was voted into the All-Star Team in the Swedish league Handbollsligan, and was also chosen as the MVP of the league. [4] He was also given the award "Årets komet", which is handed to a Swedish player who has had their definite breakthrough during the year, and proved to be an important player both in their team and their league. [5]

References

  1. Larsson, Jonathan (17 December 2020). "Jonathan Edvardsson gör mästerskapsdebut i VM" [Jonathan Edvardsson makes his championship debut in the WC]. Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 January 2021.[ dead link ]
  2. "Denmark claim second straight Men's World Championship gold". ihf.info. 31 January 2021.
  3. "Sweden 2022". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation . Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. "Handbollsligans officiella all star team" [Handball league's official all star team]. Handbollsligan (in Swedish). 17 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  5. "Jonathan Edvardsson utsedd till årets komet" [Jonathan Edvardsson named this year's comet]. Handbollsligan (in Swedish). 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.