Olof Ask

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Olof Ask
Personal information
Full name Olof Ask
Born (1982-03-18) March 18, 1982 (age 43)
Lund, Sweden
Nationality Swedish Flag of Sweden.svg
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Line player
Club information
Current clubRetired
Youth career
Team
KFUM Lundagård
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2001-2007
H43 Lund
2007-2010
GOG Svendborg
2010
KIF Kolding
2010-2011
AaB Håndbold
2011-2014
OV Helsingborg
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006-2010
Sweden 11 (9)

Olof Ask (born March 18, 1982) is a Swedish former handballer. Ask played 11 matches for the Swedish national handball team, scoring 9 goals. [1]

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Career

As a junior he played for KFUM Lundagård. [2] He played 6 seasons for H43 Lund until 2007. [3] Here he won the MVP award in the 2005-06 season in the Swedish top division. He debuted for the Swedish national team in 2006.

In 2007 he joined GOG Svendborg in Danish Handball League. [4] When the club went bankrupt in 2010 he joined Danish defending champions KIF Kolding. [5] He only stayed there for a short while, and joined AaB Håndbold where he played the rest of the 2010-11 season. [6] In 2011 he returned to Sweden and stopped being a full time professional handball player. He played for OV Helsingborg while also working as an accountant. He retired in 2014. [7]


References

  1. Statistics - Swedish national team
  2. Artur Bliding (11 February 2016). "Talangfabriken har börjat puttra igen (Om Kfum Lundagård)". Skånesport.
  3. Jan Gustafson (23 February 2007). "Olof Ask lämnar H43" (in Swedish). Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
  4. "Olof Ask spelar EM kval" (in Swedish). Sydsvenska Dagbladet. 16 January 2009.
  5. "Olof Ask på vej til KIF Koldings mesterhold" (in Danish). Fyens stiftstidene. 11 February 2010.
  6. Jens Petersen (25 August 2010). "ASK: Vi ska fastholde fokus". Berlingske Tidene.
  7. "Ask slutar - men blir kvar i OV" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs Dagblad. 23 May 2014.