Lars Gunnar Martin Frändesjö (born 18 July 1971) is a Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player and coach. He won the

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four times and the

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once, and competed in the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

. He has also worked as a handball expert on Swedish television.

Career

Frändesjö started playing handball at the age of 7. In Sweden he played for Kärra HF, HP Warta,

IK Sävehof Idrottsklubben Sävehof better known as IK Sävehof is a Sweden, Swedish professional handball club located in Partille Municipality, Partille. Their home matches are played at the Partille Arena which has a capacity of 4,000. Women's team The ...

and

Redbergslids IK Redbergslids IK (RIK), is a professional handball team from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1916. Redbergslid is the most successful club in Sweden, having won 20 Swedish Championship titles. Home games are played in Prioritet Serneke Arena. Red ...

. With

he won the Swedish championship in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998. In the summer of 1998 he joined German side GWD Minden. After a severe hit to the ribs during a Bundesliga game, he had to have his spleen removed in February 1999. In the summer of 2000 he joined French side

Montpellier Handball Montpellier Handball, formerly named Montpellier Agglomération Handball, is a professional handball club from Montpellier, France. Montpellier is the only French club to ever have won the EHF Champions League. History The team was founded as ...

, but he did not manage to get a lot of playing time as Michaël Guigou were preferred at the club. Therefore, after only a year he returned to Germany to join HSG Nordhorn. Due to HSG Nordhorn's financial trouble they couldn't fulfill his contract and in already in September 2001 he returned to Redbergslids IK. Here he won the Swedish championship for a fifth time in 2003. In 2005 he joined league rivals IK Heim, where he signed a contract until 2007. He then joined Danish club FCK Håndbold in January 2007, where he played the rest of the season. After only half a season in Denmark he joined the Norwegian team

Viking HK Viking Handball Klubb (founded 1986) is a Norwegian handball team from Stavanger with 1 series gold and 4 NM gold. The team has blue jerseys and blue shorts, and is trained by Christian Magnus Mikalsen Johannesen. The team plays their home match ...

from

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

. He signed a three year contract wit with the club, but had to retire in November 2008 season due to knee issues. In 1996 he was part of the Swedish handball team and won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played one match and scored six goals. Four years later he was part of the Swedish team which won the silver medal again. He played five matches and scored 25 goals.

Coaching career

In autumn 2009 he started coaching the HF Kroppskultur men's team who played in the

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. In 2011 he missed the chance to get the team promoted to the Elitserien, and therefore his contract was not extended. From 2015 to 2018 he was both senior and youth coach at the Norwegian side Stavanger IF Håndball.

Titles

Redbergslids IK: * Swedish Champion: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003 With the Swedish national team: * European champion in

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

* World Champion at the 1999 World Championship * Silver medals at the

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

* Silver medals at the

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and

1996 Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

* Bronze medals at the 1997 World Championship

External links

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frandesjo, Martin 1971 births Living people Handball players from Gothenburg Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish expatriate handball players in Denmark Swedish expatriate handball players in France Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Redbergslids IK players Swedish expatriate handball players in Germany Swedish expatriate handball players in Norway Montpellier Handball players Swedish handball coaches