Martin Boquist

Martin Boquist

Player information
Full name	Sven Martin Boquist
Nickname	"Boken"
birthday	2nd February 1977
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.97 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	VästeråsIrsta HF (Assistant Trainer) Sweden (Assistant Trainer)
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1996	HP Warta
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1996-1998	HP Warta
1998-2003	Redbergslids IK
2003-2005	THW Kiel
2005-2010	FCK Håndbold
2010-2013	IVH Västerås
National team
Debut on	May 21, 1994 July 1, 1995 November 27, 1996
against	Norway U-19 in Fredrikstad Island U-21 in Partille Japan in Nagoya
	Games (goals)
Sweden U-19 Sweden U-21 Sweden	10 (28) 32 (107) 219 (496)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2010-2013	IVH Västerås (player-coach)
2013-2015	IVH Västerås
2015–11 / 2017	Ricoh HK
10 / 2016–	Sweden (assistant coach)
2019–	VästeråsIrsta HF (Assistant Trainer)
Medal table
World Championship 1 × 1 × 0 × European Championship 3 × 0 × 0 × Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
As of May 8, 2020

Sven Martin Boquist (born February 2, 1977 in Göteborg - Backa ) is a former Swedish handball player and today's coach. As a player, he could be used in many ways in the backcourt ; but mostly he played in the left backcourt. He is currently the assistant coach of VästeråsIrsta HF and the Swedish national team .

society

Martin Boquist throwing a goal

Martin Boquist began playing handball in his hometown at HP Warta, where he also made his debut in the Swedish first division. In 1998 he moved to Redbergslids IK . There he won the Swedish championship in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2003 ; he was also the top scorer in the Swedish league in 2003 and player of the year. With these recommendations, he joined the German top club THW Kiel in 2003 , where he won the German championship in 2005 and the EHF Cup in 2004. Due to the strong competition - also through the engagement of Nikola Karabatić - he moved on to FCK Håndbold in Copenhagen in 2005 , with whom he won the Danish championship in 2008 and the Danish cup in 2010. In 2010 Boquist moved to the Swedish club IVH Västerås , where he held the position of player-coach. At the same time he worked there in the marketing department.

In the summer of 2015 he took over the coaching position at the Stockholm club Ricoh HK . In November 2017 he gave up his coaching position at Ricoh HK. He has been the assistant coach of the Swedish national team since October 2016 . Since the 2019/20 season he has also been an assistant coach at VästeråsIrsta HF .

National team

Martin Boquist has made 219 international appearances for the Swedish national team. With Sweden he was world champion in 1999 and vice world champion in 2001 . In 1998 , 2000 and 2002 he was European champion; at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he won silver . For the 2007 World Cup in Germany, however, he could not qualify with Sweden.

Web links

• Martin Boquist in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Martin Boquist in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Martin Boquist on the THW Kiel website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match statistics Martin Boquist. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 7, 2020 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Former Kieler becomes trainer in Stockholm on March 5, 2015, accessed on March 5, 2015
4. ↑ handball-world.com: Ex-Kiel Boquist resigns as head coach from November 1, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017
5. ↑ handball-world.com: "Couldn't possibly say no" - Ex-Kiel Boquist Sweden's new assistant coach from October 30, 2016, accessed on October 30, 2016
6. ↑ handbollskanalen.se: Boquist tillbaka i VästeråsIrsta - som assisterande tränare of May 28, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2019