Bjorn Jilsén

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Bjorn Jilsén
Player information
Full name Björn Erik Jilsén
birthday January 8, 1959
place of birth Krylbo , Sweden
citizenship SwedeSwede Swedish
height 1.93 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000-1978 SwedenSweden Irsta HF
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1978-1981 SwedenSweden Irsta HF
1981-1983 SwedenSweden IK home
1983-1984 SpainSpain Coronas tres de Mayo
1984-1986 SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK
1986-1987 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany SG Wallau / Massenheim
1987-1989 SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK
1989-1992 SwitzerlandSwitzerland RTV 1879 Basel
1992-1994 SwedenSweden Irsta HF
National team
Debut on April 15, 1978
February 26, 1982
against NorwayNorway Norway U-21 in Skien Algeria in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
AlgeriaAlgeria 
  Games (goals)
SwedenSweden Sweden U-21 Sweden
SwedenSweden 
2 (0)
189 (955)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1989-1992 SwitzerlandSwitzerland RTV 1879 Basel (player-coach)
1992-1994 SwedenSweden Irsta HF (player trainer)
1994-1996 GermanyGermany SG Wallau / Massenheim

As of May 9, 2020

Björn Erik Jilsén (born January 8, 1959 in Krylbo ) is a former Swedish handball trainer and handball player .

The 1.93 m tall and 95 kg heavy left backcourt player started playing handball at Irsta HF . There he also made his debut in the Swedish Elitserien . After becoming Swedish champions with IK Heim in 1983 , he moved to Coronas Tres de Mayo in Spain, but returned the following summer. With Redbergslids IK he won his second title in 1985 and was top scorer with 153 goals in 22 games together with Sten Sjogren . In 1986 he defended the championship and was also voted Sweden's handball of the year. He then went to the German 2nd handball league for SG Wallau / Massenheim , with which the promotion succeeded. He also finished his second foreign post after a season and came back to Gothenburg. In 1989 he won his fourth championship and joined as player-manager in Switzerland for RTV 1879 Basel , which he in the National League A resulted. After three years in the Alpine country, he let his career end with his hometown club. After the end of his playing career in 1994 Björn Jilsén became a coach at SG Wallau / Massenheim. After two years he left Wallau / Massenheim for family reasons.

In the Swedish National Team Björn Jilsén debuted in 1982. At the Olympic Games in 1984 , he reached the fifth rank and was charged with 50-goal top scorer. In Seoul in 1988 he came again to fifth place. At the 1990 World Cup , he surprisingly beat the Soviet team in the final and became world champion. By 1991 he played 189 internationals in which he scored 955 goals.

Björn Jilsén's brother Pär Jilsén was also a national handball player.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Match statistics Björn Jilsén. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
  2. a b sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
  3. a b www.sok.se Björn Jilsén ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 14, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sok.se
  4. www.svenskhandboll.se Herrar Skyttekungar (PDF, 208 kB) accessed on April 14, 2014
  5. www.berliner-zeitung.de Briefly noted from December 28, 1995, accessed on April 14, 2014
  6. www.svenskhandboll.se Landslaget Herrar Samtliga Internationals (PDF, 287 kB) accessed on April 13, 2014
  7. Björn Jilsén in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )