| Sten Sjögren | |||||||||||
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| 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
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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. 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
- 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.
External links
- Sten Sjögren at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Sten Sjögren at Olympedia
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