Isabelle Gulldén

Isabelle Gulldén
Isabelle Gulldén playing for Brest Bretagne Handball in September 2018
Personal information
Full name Isabelle Therese Gulldén
Born (1989-06-29) 29 June 1989 (age 35)
Partille, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club Lugi HF
Number 20
Youth career
Years Team
–2007
 IK Sävehof
Senior clubs
Years Team
2007–2011
 IK Sävehof
2011–2015
 Viborg HK
2015–2018
 CSM București
2018–2021
 Brest Bretagne Handball
2021–2022
 Vipers Kristiansand
2022–
 Lugi HF
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2020
 Sweden 224 (846)
Teams managed
2023–
 Sweden (assistant coach)
Medal record
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 2010 Denmark/Norway
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Croatia/Hungary

Isabelle Therese Gulldén (born 29 June 1989) is a Swedish professional handball player for Lugi HF and former national team player for the Swedish National Team.[1]

Career

In 2008, 2012, and 2016 she was part of the Swedish team competing at the Summer Olympic Games.[2][3]

In 2014, she ranked among the 150 greatest Swedish athletes of all time, list published by Dagens Nyheter. Gulldén was the only female handballer alongside legendary Mia Hermansson-Högdahl.[4]

She was given the award of Cetățean de onoare ("Honorary Citizen") of the city of Bucharest in 2016.[5]

She retired from the national team on 15 December 2020.[6]

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Individual awards

Personal life

She is the niece of Christer Gulldén, a famous Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. Her father Peter also competed in wrestling.[12] She is married to former handball goalkeeper, Linus Persson. Their son, Lias was born on 10 July 2019.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. ^ "CSM Bucharest with Isabelle Gullden: We want to play EHF CL F4 in Budapest". Handball-Planet. 24 February 2015.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Isabelle Gulldén". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  4. ^ "150 främsta svenska idrottarna genom tiderna". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Cetățeni de Onoare cu acte " Premiere în masă făcută de Gabriela Firea: cine sunt sportivii care au fost recompensați" (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. 10 November 2016.
  6. ^ Fredrik Jönsson, Milad Akbarzadeh (15 December 2020). "Bella Gulldén avslutar sin landslagskarriär" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Bella är årets spelare" (in Swedish). ifokus.se. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  8. ^ "ALKALOID WORLD FEMALE HANDBALL BEST 8". Handball-Planet. 11 January 2017.
  9. ^ "WOMEN'S TOP 10 "BEST BUY" 2015/2016: Bella, Nycke and Jelena". Handball-Planet. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  10. ^ "S-a votat echipa campionatului, feminin şi masculin! Cristina Zamfir şi Marius Mocanu, jucătorii cu cele mai bune punctaje în Liga Naţională, după opţiunile exprimate de specialişti, jurnalişti şi fani dedicaţi handbalului PROSPORT 20" (in Romanian). Prosport. 2 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Cristina Neagu, cea mai bună handbalistă din Liga Naţională în sezonul 2017–2018. Cum arată echipa ideală a campionatului, după voturile exprimate de antrenori" (in Romanian). ProSport. 21 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Redo för holmgångar". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 8 August 2008.
  13. ^ "Bella Gulldéns babylycka: "Välkommen till världen"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 11 July 2019.