Robert Andersson (handballer)

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Robert Andersson
Personal information
Born (1969-11-24) 24 November 1969 (age 55)
Ystad, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current clubRetired
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
-1990
 IFK Ystad HK [1]
1990-1992
 Ystads IF HF
1992-1995
 TSV Bayer Dormagen
1995-1996
 RTV 1879 Basel
1996-1998
 OSC Rheinhausen
1998-2003
 HSG Nordhorn
2003-2004
 TuS N-Lübbecke
2004-2008
 LUGI HF
2008
 Ystads IF HF
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992-2000
 Sweden 139 (259 [2] )
Teams managed
2009-2013
 IFK Ystad HK
2013-2015
 H 43 Lund
2015-2017
 HC Erlangen
2018-2020
 HIF Karlskrona
2020-2023
 TuS Ferndorf
Medal record
Olympic Games
Men's Handball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992 Barcelona Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1996 Atlanta Team
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Portugal
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Italy
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1995 Iceland

Robert Andersson (born 24 November 1969) is a Swedish handball player, who won the European championship with Sweden. [3] He goes by the nickname 'Knirr'. [4]

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Career

Anderssons senior debut was at his hometown club IFK Ystad HK. He then joined city rivals Ystads IF HF, where he won the 1991-92 Swedish championship. In that season he was the league top scorer with 189 goals. [4]

This prompted a move to German Bundesliga team TSV Bayer Dormagen, where he played for three years before joining Swiss team RTV 1879 Basel. [5] In 1996 he returned to Germany to join OSC Rheinhausen. [6] After Rheinhausen had to withdraw from the Bundesliga due to financial trouble, he joined 2nd Bundesliga team HSG Nordhorn. [6] In 1999 he was promoted with the team to the Bundesliga and in the 2001-2002 season he came second in the Bundesliga. As his contract ran out at the end of the season, he joined TuS N-Lübbecke in January 2023. [7]

In 2005 he returned to Sweden to join LUGI HF. [8] In 2008 he joined Ystads IF again, where he retired in 2008 due to a shoulder injury. [4]

With the Swedish national team he won the 1994 and 1998 European Championships.

He represented Sweden in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics, where Sweden took silver medals both times. In 1992 he was a member of the Swedish handball team won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played six match and scored six goals.

Four years later he was part of the Swedish team which won the silver medal again. He played two matches and scored one goal.

Coaching career

When he retired as a player he became the coach at IFK Ystad HK. [9] In 2013 he moved to coach recently promoted team H 43 Lund. [1]

In March 2015 he became the coach at German Bundesliga team HC Erlangen, where he replaced Frank Bergemann. [10] He was relieved of his duties in October 2017 due to not getting the expected results. [11]

In the summer of 2018 he became the head coach of Swedish team HIF Karlskrona. [12] Between 2020 and 2023 he coached the German team TuS Ferndorf. [13] [14]

Private life

His son Julius Lindskog Andersson is also a handball player. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 ""Knirr" tar över i H 43" (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda.{{cite web}}: |archive-url= requires |archive-date= (help)
  2. ↑ "Statistik" (in Swedish). Swedish Handball Federation . Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Robert Andersson". SR Olympic Sports. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 ""Knirrs" karriär över". ystadsallehanda.se (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Samtliga Internationals" [all national team players](PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Handball Federation . Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Gegnerkader OSC Rheinhausen Saison 1997/98". thw-handball.de (in German). THW Kiel . Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Andersson wechselt nach Lübbecke at netzeitung.de (Error: unknown archive URL)(archived 8 January 2003)
  8. ↑ "Gegnerkader TuS N-Lübbecke Saison 2004/2005" (in German). thw-handball.de. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  9. ↑ ""Knirr" pekas ut som ny tränare i IFK Ystad" (in Swedish). skanskan.se:. Retrieved 12 November 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  10. ↑ "Erlangen präsentiert Nachfolger für Bergemann" [Erlangen presents the replacement for Bergemann] (in German). handball-world.com. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Zweiter Trainerwechsel der Saison: Erlangen trennt sich von Andersson" (in German). handball-world.news. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  12. ↑ Ny tränare: “Knirr” Andersson at hifkarlskrona.se (Error: unknown archive URL)(archived 27 April 2018)
  13. ↑ "Ehemaliger Europameister wird neuer Trainer beim TuS Ferndorf". tus-ferndorf.de (in German). TuS Ferndorf. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  14. ↑ "TuS Ferndorf und Robert Andersson gehen ab Sommer getrennte Wege" [TuS Ferndorf and Robert Andersson goes different ways in the summer]. handball-world.news. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "Handball: VfL verpflichtet Julius Andersson" [Handball:VfL signs Julius Andersson] (in German). hl-live.de. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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