Hans Peter Ludvig Gentzel (born 12 October 1968) is a Swedish former

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 who competed 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 was named Swedish male player of the year in 1998 and in 2003 he was number two in the IHF World player of the year, receiving 29.5% of the votes. In 2000, he was a member of the Swedish handball team that won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches as goalkeeper. In December 2010, Gentzel ended his career and took a high ranked job within Swedish handball.

Career

Between 1989 and 1999 he played for Swedish top club

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 ...

from Gothenburg. Here he won the Swedish Championship six times and the Swedish cup 3 times. Between 2001 and 2009 he played for HSG Nordhorn. Here he won the

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

. When the club went bankrupt he joined

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

on a one year contract. In his only season at the club he won the

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

and German Championship. Afterwards he ended his career. After his playing days he worked on the preparations for the

2011 World Men's Handball Championship The 2011 World Men's Handball Championship, the 22nd event hosted by the International Handball Federation, was held in Sweden from 13 to 30 January 2011. All matches were played in Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Gothenburg, Skövde, Jönköping, L ...

, which took place in Sweden. Afterwards he has been the director at the organisation "Svensk Elithandboll".

Titles

Club

* Swedish Championship: 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 und 1998 * Swedish Cup: 1996, 1997 und 1998 *

: 2008 *

: 2010 *

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became t ...

: 2010

External links

profile

References

1968 births Swedish male handball players Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Sweden Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish expatriate handball players in Germany Swedish expatriate handball players in Spain Swedish people of German descent Handball players from Gothenburg Living people IK Heim players Redbergslids IK players CB Cantabria players BM Granollers players HSG Nordhorn-Lingen players THW Kiel players 20th-century Swedish sportsmen 21st-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub