Gøran Johannessen

Gøran Johannessen

Player information
Full name	Gøran Søgard Johannessen
birthday	April 26, 1994
place of birth	Stavanger , Norway
citizenship	Norwegian
height	1.93 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
Jersey number	23
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
2010–	Viking HK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000–2016	Viking HK
2016-2018	GOG Håndbold
2018–	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on	17th January 2015
against	Hungary
	Games (goals)
Norway	71 (153)
As of July 28, 2020

Gøran Søgard Johannessen (born April 26, 1994 in Stavanger ) is a Norwegian handball player . He is under contract with the German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt .

Career

Gøran Johannessen played for Viking HK in his hometown from 2010 . 2016 1.93m moved back player to Danish first division GOG Håndbold with which he in the season 2016/17 at the EHF Cup participated. Johannessen has been under contract with Bundesliga club SG Flensburg-Handewitt since the 2018/19 season . He won the German championship in 2019 with SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

Gøran Johannessen made his debut in the Norwegian national handball team on January 17, 2015 . With Norway he took part in the 2017 World Cup in France , where the team won the silver medal, and in the 2018 European Championship in Croatia . Furthermore, he became vice world champion in 2019 .

Web links

• Gøran Johannessen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Gøran Johannessen on the website of SG Flensburg-Handewitt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} handballold.nif.no Totaloversikt for Johannessen, Gøran Søgard , accessed on July 28, 2020
2. ↑ handball-world.news: Flensburg confirms double commitment for the coming season from October 23, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2018