Jan Hedengård
| Jan Hedengård | |
| portrait | |
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| Date of birth | May 27, 1963 |
| place of birth | Malmo, Sweden |
| size | 1.86 m |
| position | passing |
| societies | |
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–1987 1987–1988 1988–1991 1992–1993 1993–1994 1994–1996 1996–1998 1998–1999 |
Dalby Sollentuna VK Pallavolo Turin Alpitour Cuneo Dürener TV Moerser SC Halkbank Ankara VfB Friedrichshafen Izmir Söke Spor |
| National team | |
| 386 times | Swedish national team |
| successes | |
| 3 times in 1996, 1996 1996 1998 1998 1988 1989 |
Swedish champion Turkish champion Turkish cup winner German champion German cup winner 7th place Olympic Games Seoul Vice European Champion |
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As of February 4, 2013 |
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Jan Gunnar Hedengård (born May 27, 1963 in Malmö , Sweden ) is a former Swedish-German volleyball player .
Career
Jan Hedengård started playing volleyball in Dalby at home . Later he went to Stockholm Randverein Sollentuna VK, with which he was three times Swedish champion. In 1987, the player moved to the Italian league for Pallavolo Turin and a year later for league rivals Alpitur Cuneo . In 1992 Jan Hedengård came to the German Bundesliga and played for Dürener TV and Moerser SC . In 1994 he went to Halkbank Ankara and was twice Turkish champion here. In 1996 he returned to the Bundesliga for VfB Friedrichshafen , with whom he won the double in the German championship and the DVV cup in 1998. In his Bundesliga time he was constantly represented in the rankings of German volleyball . Then he played again in Turkey for Izmir Söke Spor.
Jan Hedengård played 386 times for the Swedish national team and was their captain for ten years. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , he finished seventh. He also took part in five European championships ( 1985 , 1987 , 1989 , 1991 and 1993 ) and two world championships ( 1990 and 1994 ).
Jan Hedengård is married to a German and has had German citizenship since 1995.
Web links
- Jan Hedengård in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile web4sport.com (Swedish)
- EM 1989 (Swedish)
- Profile on legavolley.it (Italian)
- Ranking lists 1993 - men (PDF file; 3.46 MB)
- Rankings 1994 - Men (PDF file; 1.99 MB)
- Ranking lists 1997 - men (PDF file; 110 kB)
- Ranking lists 1998 - Men ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 134 kB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hedengård, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hedengård, Jan Gunnar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-German volleyball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |