Ula Lindgren ( Swede. Ola Lindgren ; born February 29, 1964 , Halmstad ) - Swedish handball player and handball coach, world and European champion, three-time silver medalist at the Olympic Games. Since 2012 - head coach of the Swedish club Kristianstad. The head coach of the Swedish national team in 2008-2016 [1] .
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| Amplois | left welterweight , linear | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 192 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | February 29, 1964 (55 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Halmstad , Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Throwing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Player Career
Club
Lindgren began his career in 1981 in Sweden as part of the Drott Club. In 1990, he moved to Germany to join the Dutenhofen team (now Wetzlar), who played in the Second Bundesliga. In 1992 he returned to Drott, three years later he went back to Germany, where he played for the clubs Düsseldorf and Nordhorn.
Team
In the Swedish national team he played 376 games and scored 482 goals. Through his efforts, Lindgren brought his team three Olympic silver medals, four European Championship gold medals and two world championship gold medals.
Game Style
Initially, Lindgren played as a left-back, preferring to play on the defensive. In the team he was transferred to the position of an attacking player, and he became linear. Due to his physical parameters, he became one of the most productive players in the Swedish national team and one of the best handball players in the world.
Coach Career
From 1996 to 1998, Lindgren worked as a playing coach for Düsseldorf for some time, and from 2003 to 2009 he led the Nordhorn. In 2007, he joined the headquarters of the Swedish national team [2] , and in 2008, together with Staffan Olsson, he headed the national team and led it until 2016 [3] .
In the 2009/2010 season, Lindgren continued to combine club and national coaches, becoming a Rhine-Neckar Leuven mentor. In September 2010, he resigned as a team coach, but until June 2012 he remained de jure at the club headquarters, not having the right to change the team. Only in December 2011, by mutual agreement, he left the post of coach of the “Lions” [4] , in January 2012, having headed the domestic Kristianstad [5] . He worked at Kristianstad until 2019, after which he took up the position of head coach of the Finnish national team and the Egyptian Al Ahly.
Titles
Club
- Champion of Sweden : 1984, 1988, 1990, 1994
- Vice-champion of Germany : 2002
Team
- Vice-champion of the Olympic Games: 1992, 1996, 2000
- World Champion: 1990, 1999
- European Champion: 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002
Coaching
- EHF Cup Winner: 2008
- Vice-champion of the Olympic Games: 2012
Notes
- ↑ Composition of Sweden's men's handball team. Archived September 10, 2010 at Wayback Machine (Swedish.)
- ↑ Handball-News.Info vom 2. März 2007: Ola Lindgren Assistent der schwedischen Auswahl Archived December 3, 2013 on Wayback Machine (German)
- ↑ www.handball-world.com: Olsson und Lindgren die neuen Nationaltrainer Schwedens (inaccessible link) (German)
- ↑ Löwen und Lindgren einigen sich auf Vertragsauflösung , handball-world.com am 20. Dezember 2011 (German)
- ↑ Ola Lindgren hat eine neue Aufgabe , handball-world.com am 12. Januar 2012 (German)
Links
- Ula Lindgren - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com