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Per Carlén (born 19 November 1960, in Karlstad) is a former handball player and current coach. He is the father of Swedish national handball player Oscar Carlén and Swedish national football player

Hilda Carlén Hilda Maria Carlén (born 13 August 1991) is a Swedish football goalkeeper who played for Linköpings FC of the Damallsvenskan. She has represented Sweden at senior international level. Club career After signing for Malmö for the 2009 season, C ...

. His most recent coaching job was with the defending German champion HSV Hamburg, who sacked him on 29 December 2011.HSV Handball trennt sich von Trainer Per Carlén

Player career

Along with, among others,

Magnus Wislander Hans Einar Magnus Wislander (born 22 February 1964) is a Swedish former handball player, who has been voted ''Handball Player of the Century''. Since his debut in the national team in 1985 he has played over 380 games and scored over 1,000 goals ...

Staffan Olsson Erik Staffan Olsson (born 26 March 1964) is a Swedish handball coach and former player. Olsson, who always played with no 13, was a left-handed right backcourt player with one of the most feared shots of all the elite players. Later in his care ...

Erik Hajas Erik Hajas (born 16 September 1962 in Huddinge Parish, Sweden) is a Swedish handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca ...

och Björn Jilsén, Carlén was a key player in Bengt Johansson's successful national team during the 1980s and 1990s. Usually Carlén played line player. During his national career he played 329 games (1032 goals). Ona club level he represented

IK Heim IK Heim were a Swedish handball club from Gothenburg, founded in 1923. They have been Swedish champions 7 times. They won the title in 1950 (by defeating Örebro in the final), 1955, 1959, 1960 and 1962 (by winning the league). They were relega ...

Ystads IF Ystads IF is a handball club from Ystad, Sweden. They play in Handbollsligan. They won the Swedish Championship in 1976, 1992 and 2022. History Ystads IF was founded in 1908 and took up handball on the programme in 1929. In 1933–34, the cl ...

BM Granollers Club Balonmano Granollers, commonly known as BM Granollers, is a handball club based in Granollers, Spain. History The club was founded in 1944 and it is one of the oldest and most successful Spanish handball clubs in terms of titles won. ...

and

Atlético Madrid BM Atlético Madrid Balonmano was a handball team that was part of the Atlético sports organization. History Created in the early 1950s, it won 11 Spanish Leagues and 10 Spanish Cups between 1952 and 1987, and reached the final of the 1984-85 Eu ...

. In 1992 Carlén won a national championship with

Player clubs

* IFK Skoghall *

HK Drott HK Drott Halmstad is a handball club, based in Halmstad, Sweden. The club has won the Swedish Championship eleven times, last in 2013. Together with Redbergslids IK, HK Drott have dominated Swedish handball between 1984 and 2003. This club has ...

* IF Hellton *

* HP Warta *

Ystads IF HF Ystads IF is a handball club from Ystad, Sweden. They play in Handbollsligan. They won the Swedish Championship in 1976, 1992 and 2022. History Ystads IF was founded in 1908 and took up handball on the programme in 1929. In 1933–34, the cl ...

Coaching clubs

* TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen, 2006–2007 *

HK Malmö HK Malmö is a handball club based in Malmö, Sweden. The club was formed in May 2007 and plays in the highest handball division in Sweden. The club has quickly established itself at the top of Swedish handball on the men's side The club has ac ...

, 2007–2008 *

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formi ...

, 2008–2010 * HSV Hamburg, 2011

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*Caps/Goals: 329/1032 mål (1982–1996) *World champion 1990 (in

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) *European champion 1994 *3rd place in the 1993 and 1995 World championships *Swedish champion with

1992 *Participated in four

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: Los Angeles (1984), Seoul (1988), Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996)

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1960 births Living people Sportspeople from Karlstad Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players of Sweden Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish handball coaches Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics BM Granollers players {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub

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