Jump to content

Robert Hedin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hedin in 2009
Personal information
Born 2 February 1966 (1966-02-02) (age 59)
Ystad, Sweden
Height 198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position left back
Youth career
Team
–
 Köpingebro IF
1980-1982
 IFK Ystad
1982-1985
 Ystads IF
Senior clubs
Years Team
1985-1990
 Ystads IF
1990-1992
 Stavanger IF
1992-1993
 BM Benidorm
1993-1998
 GWD Minden
1998-2001
 TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
2001-2002
 SV Post Schwerin
2002-2003
 TuS N.-Lübbecke
2003-2004
 Ystads IF
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988-1998
 Sweden 194 (333[1])
Teams managed
1998-2001
 TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
2002-2003
 TuS N.-Lübbecke
2004-2007
 Ystads IF
2007-2009
 MT Melsungen
2008-2/2014
 Norway
10/2011-2012
 Aalborg Håndbold
2/2015-2017
 Bregenz Handball
2018-
 USA
2019-2020
 St. Hallvard
2020-2023
 Nøtterøy Håndball
2023-
 Fjellhammer IL
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona Team
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta Team
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Sweden Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Portugal Team

Gunnar Robert Hedin (born 2 February 1966) is a Swedish handball coach and retired player who won silver medals at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He also won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championship, playing alongside his younger brother Tony[2] and gold medals at the 1994 European Championship.

Today he is the head coach of the United States men's national handball team[3] and the Norwegian club Fjellhammer IL.[4]

From 2008 to 2014 he was the coach of the Norwegian national handball team.[5]

Career

[edit]

Hedin played for IFK Ystad HK in Sweden, Stavanger in Norway, Benidorm in Spain, GWD Minden, TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke and SV Post Schwerin in Germany and TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen in Switzerland.[6]

From January 2007 to the summer of 2009 he was the coach of the German Handball-Bundesliga team MT Melsungen.[7][8]

In October 2008 he took over as the Norwegian national team head coach.[9] Here he was until 2014.[10] He was in this position until 2014, where he was replaced by Christian Berge.

In October 2011 he took over the Danish team Aalborg Håndbold, where he coached the rest of the season.[11]

In the summer of 2014 after stopping as the Norwegian head coach, he became a consultant at the Austrian club Bregenz Handball, and in February 2025 he became the head coach of the tema.[12] He was named coach of the year in the Austrian top divsion in 2014-15.[13] He left Bregenz in 2017.[14]

In July 2018 he took over as the USA national team head coach.[3] From the 2019-2020 in addition to being the US head coach, he also became the head coach of Norwegian team St. Hallvard for a single season.[15] In 2020 he took over the Nøtterøy Håndball,[16] which he guided to promotion to the top Norwegian division in 2021.[17] In January 2023 he moved to league rivals Fjellhammer IL.[4]

Private life

[edit]

He is educated as an engineer.[18]

His brother Tony Hedin is also a handball player. He has 6 kids of which one of them, Amadeus Hedin, is also a handball player, and so is his nephew Viktor Hedin.

References

[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Hedin.
  1. ^ "Statistik" (in Swedish). Swedish Handball Federation. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  2. ^ Robert Hedin. sports-reference.com
  3. ^ a b "Ohio State alumna working toward Olympic dreams after lone year of club sport". The Lantern. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Robert Hedin klar som ny hovedtrener!" (in Norwegian). Fjellhammer IL. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  5. ^ Robert Hedin. Swedish Olympic Committee
  6. ^ Cederlund, Christer (8 November 2003). "Robert Hedin klar för spel" (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Robert Hedin neuer Trainer in Melsungen" [Robert Hedin new coach in Melsungen] (in German). handball-news.info. 17 January 2007.
  8. ^ "THW empfängt MT Melsungen am Mittwoch". archiv.thw-handball.de (in German). THW Kiel. 25 March 2009.
  9. ^ "MT-Trainer Hedin nimmt Zweitjob in Norwegen an" (in German). SEK-News. 13 October 2008.
  10. ^ "Robert Hedin slutter" [Robert Hedin stops]. handball.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. 20 February 2014.
  11. ^ "Hedin wird Vereinstrainer in Aalborg" [Hedin becomes coach in Aalborg] (in German). handball-world.com. 19 October 2011.
  12. ^ "Robert Hedin ergänzt Bregenzer Trainerteam". hla.at (in German). Austrian Bundesliga. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Ziura & Acimovic "Handballer des Jahres"". oehb.sportlive.at. Austrian Handball Federation. 8 June 2015. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  14. ^ "Bregenz Handball und Robert Hedin gehen getrennte Wege". hla.at (in German). Austrian Bundesliga. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  15. ^ "I norska St Hallvard blir det rena släktkalaset för familjen Hedin" (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  16. ^ "Tidligere landslagssjef Robert Hedin tar over Nøtterøy" [Former national team coach Robert Hedin takes over at Nøtterøy] (in Norwegian). tv2.no. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Robert Hedin och Nøtterøy upp i eliten" [Robert Hedin and Nøtterøy up into the elite] (in Swedish). handbollskanalen.se. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Gegnerkader TuS N-Lübbecke Saison 2002/2003". archiv.thw-handball.de (in German). THW Kiel. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Hedin&oldid=1274299530"