Håkan Algotsson

Håkan Algotsson
Date of birth	5th August 1966
place of birth	Tyringe , Sweden
size	178 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	goalkeeper
Career stations
1983-1988	Tyringe sauce
1988-1999	Västra Frölunda HC
1999-2000	Starbulls Rosenheim
2000-2001	Västra Frölunda HC

Håkan Algotsson (born August 5, 1966 in Tyringe ) is a former Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper who played for Västra Frölunda HC in the Elitserien and Starbulls Rosenheim in the German ice hockey league from 1983 to 2001 .

Career

Håkan Algotsson began his career as a hockey player at Tyringe SoSS , for which he was active from 1983 to 1988 and with whom he rose from third-rate Division 2 to Division 1 in the 1985/86 season. Then the goalkeeper moved in the summer of 1988 to their league rivals Västra Frölunda HC , with whom he immediately achieved promotion to the Elitserien . There he stood between the posts for the next ten years before he received a contract with Starbulls Rosenheim from the German Ice Hockey League for the 1999/2000 season . When they withdrew from the DEL at the end of the season, the Swede returned to Västra Frölunda, where he ended his career in 2001.

International

For Sweden , Algotsson took part in the 1992 World Cup and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

Achievements and Awards

• 1986 Promotion to Division 1 with Tyringe SoSS
• 1989 Promotion to the Elitserien with the Västra Frölunda HC
• 1992 gold medal at the world championship
• 1994 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

• Håkan Algotsson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Håkan Algotsson at eurohockey.com
• Håkan Algotsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )