Sten Sjögren

Sten Sjögren
Personal information
Full name Sten Hugo Sjögren
Born (1957-04-28) 28 April 1957 (age 67)
Lund, Sweden
Nationality  Sweden
Playing position Right wing
Youth career
Years Team
-1976
Lugi HF
Senior clubs
Years Team
1975-1994
Lugi HF
1994-1997
Skurups Handboll
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978-1991
 Sweden 200 (506)
Teams managed
1994-1997
Skurups Handboll
1997-1999
Olympic/Viking HK
1999-2002
Ystads IF
2002-2004
Lugi HF
2004-2006
Stavstens IF
Medal record
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1990 Czechoslovakia

Sten Sjögren (born 28 April 1957 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish former handball player who played almost all his active years at Lugi HF. Here he won the Swedish Championship in Allsvenskan i handboll för herrar 1979/1980, the first and until now only championship for the club. He held the record for most club appeanrances for the club until 2019, when he was overtaken by Anders Hallberg. He also has the record for most goals with the club with 1790 goals. He also had the record for most goals in the top Swedish division with 1534 until he was overtaken by Erik Hajas and later Zoran Roganović.

He stopped playing in Lugi HF in 1994 to become player-manager at Skurups Handboll in Skåne.

With Sweden he competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1] At the 1990 World Men's Handball Championship he became a world champion with the Swedish team.

After being the player-manager at Skurups Handboll he went on to coach several Swedish league teams, including his former club Lugi HF.

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sten Sjögren". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2012.