Tomas Sivertsson

Thomas Sivertsson
Personal information
Full name	Lars Thomas Sivertsson
Born	(1965-02-21) 21 February 1965 (age 59) Halmstad, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Pivot
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs
Years	Team
-1988	Halmstad HP IF
1988-1999	HK Drott
1999-2001	BM Granollers
2001-2008	KIF Kolding
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992-2009	Sweden	220	(0)
Teams managed
2005-2010	Portugal men Assistant
2008-2009	KIF Kolding
2012-2014	Sweden women Assistant
2014-2016	Sweden women
2016-2019	HK Drott women
2018-	Estonia men
Medal record 1996 Atlanta Team 2000 Sydney Team European Championship 1998 Italy 2000 Croatia 2002 Sweden World Championship 1999 Egypt 2001 France 1995 Iceland

Lars Thomas Sivertsson (born 21 February 1965 ^[1] ) is a Swedish handball player and handball coach who was a part of the Swedish golden generation nicknamed the Bengan Boys. He won both the European Championship and the World Championship as a player.

Career

Sivertsson began playing handball at his hometown club Halmstad HP IF and joined top league team HK Drott, where he won the Swedish Championship 4 times. In 2000 he joined Spanish top league team BM Granollers for one season. Next season he joined Danish side KIF Kolding. Here he won the Danish championship 5 times.

Sivertsson was on the team that won the European Championship three times in a row; in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He also won the 1999 World Championship with Sweden, and he competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. ^[1] In 1996 he was a member of the Swedish handball team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches and scored twelve goals. ^[1] Four years later he was part of the Swedish team which won the silver medal again. He played all seven matches and scored eleven goals. ^[1]

Coaching Career

After his playing time at KIF Kolding he became the assistant coach and in 2008 to 2009 he became the coach of the club. In 2009 he became the coach of the Polish team Wisła Płock. From 2005-2010 he was the assistant coach to Portugal men's team under Mats Olsson.

In 2012 he became the assistant at the Swedish women's national team. ^[2] When Torbjörn Klingvall ceased to be the coach of the Swedish women's team, Sivertsson took over in cooperation with Helle Thomsen. ^[3] Here he stayed until January 2016. ^[4]

In June 2018 he took over the Estonia men's national handball team. ^[5]

Private life

His brother, Ulf Sivertsson, is also a handball coach at HK Drott. His children, Hugo Sivertsson and Sally Sivertsson are both handball players.

References

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-sivertsson-39553267
• https://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/t/thomas-sivertsson.html

1. Tomas Sivertsson at Sports Reference
2. "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). EHF . Retrieved 7 December 2014.
3. "Schwedens Nationaltrainer Klingvall tritt zurück" (in German). handball-world.com. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
4. "Schweden gibt neuen Nationaltrainer bekannt" [Sweden reveals new national coach] (in German). handball-world.com. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
5. "Thomas Sivertsson ny förbundskapten för Estland" [Thomas Sivertsson new head coach for Estonia] (in Swedish). handbollskanalen.se. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2020.