Katja Nyberg

Status: National August 25, 2012

Katja Johanna Alice Nyberg ( born August 24, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden ) is a former Norwegian handball player. The 1.83 m wide player played left back.

Personal

She is the daughter of Robert Nyberg, the first playing abroad Finnish Handball pro. Born in Stockholm Finn grew up in Finland and became operational in January 2001 to the Norwegian citizenship. Katja led between 2005 and 2010 a relationship with the Norwegian handball player Gro hammer Seng Edin.

Career

Katja, former Finnish junior champion in the javelin, began as a ten- year-old at the club Sparta IF, her father trained. In 1997, she moved to Stockholm Swedish club IF Polisen, for which she played one year. She was then obliged by the Norwegian top club Larvik HK, with whom she won a total of eleven titles. After they played the Slovenian club Krim Ljubljana in 2005, she already changed the following year to the Danish club FC Midtjylland Håndbold (former club Name: Ikast - bording Elite Håndbold ). From summer 2010 Nyberg went back for Larvik HK hunting for goals. After the 2011/12 season she ended her career. Then she took a coaching job at youth level of Larvik.

Your international debut in the Norwegian national team they were on 23 March 2001 against France. Katja played 99 international matches in which they threw 321 goals. The greatest achievements were winning the European Championships in 2004 and 2006, the. The gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, as well as the choice for most valuable player at the 2007 World Cup

Achievements

Sparta IF

  • Eight times Finnish Champion

Stockholm Polisen IF

  • Swedish Champion 1998

Larvik HK

  • Norwegian champion in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012
  • Norwegian Cup winner 2000, 2003 and 2004
  • EHF Champions League 2011
  • European Cup Winner 2005

Krim Ljubljana

  • Champions League finalist 2006

National

  • Vice - European Champion 2002
  • Europameistererin 2004 and 2006
  • Vice World Champion 2007
  • Olympic Champion 2008

Others

  • The tattooed on her right forearm Chinese characters mean " Handball ".
  • On her left forearm she has tattooed the name of her dog, Pontus.
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