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(Redirected from Mia Hermansson Högdahl) Swedish handball player (born 1965)

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl
Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (2015)
Personal information
Born (1965-05-06) 6 May 1965 (age 59)
Göteborg, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Right back
Senior clubs
Years Team
0000–1985 HP Warta
1985–1987 Tyresö HF
1987–1992 Byåsen IL
1992–1996 Hypo Niederösterreich
1996–1999 Byåsen IL
1999–2000 Milar L'Eliana Valencia
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1998 Sweden 225 (1153)
Teams managed
2003-2008 Levanger HK assistant coach
2009-2020 Norwegian women's handball team assistant coach

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (born 6 May 1965) is a Swedish team handball player and handball coach. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1994 by the International Handball Federation. She is seen as one of the best Swedish players of all time.

Hermansson-Högdahl has played 222 matches for the Swedish national team, and scored 1100 times. This makes her the single most scoring player ever on the Swedish national tea. She was voted into the World team in 1987, 1991 and 1994. As a club player she won the Women's EHF Champions League with Hypo Niederösterreich two times (1993/94, 1994/95).

She was named Swedish handballer of the year three times, in 1984/85, 1986/87 and 1993/94. She was the player who had won the award single most time until Isabelle Gulldén tied her in 2018. She was inducted into the EHF Hall of Fame in 2024.

Playing Career

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl started playing handball at HP Warta when she was 10 years old. Back then she played as a goalkeeper.

While playing for HP Warta she debuted for the senior Swedish national team in 1984. In 1985 she was the top scorer in the Swedish league with 112 goals in 18 matches.

In the summer of 1985 she joined Tyresö HF, where she became Swedish champion. She then joined Norwegian side Byåsen IL in 1987, where she became a professional player. Here she won the Norwegian championship twice in 1988 and 1990.

In 1992 she joined one of the best teams in Europe in the Austrian Hypo Niederösterreich. Here she won the Austrian championship and cup double 4 times as well as the EHF Champions League two times, in 1994 and 1995.

In 1996 she returned to Norway and Byåsen, where she won another Norwegian title, before playing a single year at BM Sagunto in Spain before retiring.

Coaching Career

From 2003 to 2008 she was the assistant coach of the Norwegian top league team Levanger HK. She was the assistant coach of the Norwegian women's handball team from 2009 to 2020.

Private life

She is married to the Swedish handball coach Arne Högdahl, who coached Hypo Niederösterreich. Their daughter, Moa Högdahl is also a professional handballer, playing for Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub and the Norwegian national handball team.

She is the sister-in-law of former handball player Lena Högdahl.

References

  1. "Previous World Handball Players" Archived 1 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine International Handball Federation (Retrieved on 14 December 2007)
  2. ^ "Mia Hermansson Högdahl ansatt i NHF"Norges Håndballforbund – (Retrieved on 16 December 2007) Archived 26 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "New legends of the game inducted into EHF Hall of Fame". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  4. Stürmerfoul nr 4, page 104f
  5. TT (10 November 1993). "Mia har nyckeln till framgång" [Mia has the keys to progress] (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter.
  6. Strandman, Pelle (7 May 2016). "Svenskorna till final i Champions League" [The swedes at the Champion League final] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet.
  7. "History of Levanger HK" (in Norwegian). Levanger HK.
  8. "Mia ingen god løsning" [Mia no good solution] (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  9. "Inn i Håndballjentenes trenerteam". handball.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  10. ^ Flinck, Johan (6 December 2019). "Handbolls-VM: Svenska jättetalangen Moa Högdahl bytte till Norge". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 22 December 2020.

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Awards
SuspendedTitle last held byJasna Kolar-Merdan IHF World Player of the Year – Women
1994 		Succeeded byErzsébet Kocsis
IHF World Player of the Year – Women
Player of the 20th Century: Zinaida Turchyna (2000)
Swedish Handballer of the Year – Women
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