Mia Hermansson-Högdahl
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox3colsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Playing Career
Mia Hermansson-Högdahl started playing handball at HP Warta when she was 10 years old. Back then she played as a goalkeeper.[4]
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.[5] Here she won the Austrian championship and cup double 4 times as well as the EHF Champions League two times, in 1994 and 1995.[6]
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.[7] She was the assistant coach of the Norwegian women's handball team from 2009 to 2020.[8][9][2]
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.[10]
She is the sister-in-law of former handball player Lena Högdahl.[10]
References
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- ↑ "Previous World Handball Players" Template:Webarchive International Handball Federation (Retrieved on 14 December 2007)
- ↑ a b "Mia Hermansson Högdahl ansatt i NHF"Norges Håndballforbund – (Retrieved on 16 December 2007) Template:Webarchive
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