Johan Petersson

This article is about the Swedish handball player Johan Petersson. For the Finnish athlete, see Johan Pettersson

Johan Petersson

Player information
Full name	Par Johan Petersson
birthday	March 29, 1973
place of birth	Karlshamn , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.81 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1990-1992	IK Sävehof
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1992-1996	IK Sävehof
1996-1997	GWD Minden
1997-2001	HSG Nordhorn
2001-2005	THW Kiel
2005-2008	IF Hallby Handboll
2008-2010	Alingsås HK
2010-2011	IFK Kristianstad
2012–2012	TuS N-Lübbecke
2015-2015	HSV Hamburg
National team
Debut on	December 27, 1990 June 19, 1992 June 10, 1993
against	Germany U-19 in Vissenbjerg Sogn Denmark U-21 in Bad Bramstedt Kyrgyzstan in Syracuse
	Games (goals)
Sweden U-19 Sweden U-21 Sweden	8 (36) 27 (152) 250 (815)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2005-2008	IF Hallby Handboll (player-coach)
2017-2017	HSV Norderstedt
2018-2019	Kungälvs HK (assistant coach)
2019–	Kärra HF (women)
As of May 7, 2020

Pär Johan Petersson (also known as Johan Pettersson ; born March 29, 1973 in Karlshamn ) is a former Swedish handball player . He played in the right winger position . He is currently working as a handball trainer.

Career

He began his handball career at IK Sävehof , after which he moved to GWD Minden in 1996 , where he stayed for a year. In 1997 he moved to HSG Nordhorn for four years . Finally, he accepted an offer from THW Kiel and in 2001 also became a "zebra". He stayed there for four years until he was offered an offer at the handball school that appealed to him because of his professional prospects. He went on the floor 199 times for Kiel and scored 1,097 goals (an average of 5.5 goals).

With the THW Kiel he celebrated successes such as the German championship in 2002 and 2005, and was EHF cup winner . With the Swedish national handball team , he won the silver medal at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics , was world champion in 1999 and second at the 2001 World Cup . He was also elected to the League Allstar Team in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Petersson left the national team in January 2005 and was brought back to the three-crown team in 2007. He played a total of 250 international matches for Sweden and scored 815 goals.

He is currently working as a handball teacher at a high school in Jönköping in Sweden. In addition, he played and trained his club IF Hallby Handboll. He barely missed promotion to the elite series . After a botched start to the season, Hallby separated from Petersson in November 2008. He then played for the Swedish first division club Alingsås HK . Petersson won the Swedish championship with Alingsås HK in 2009. Petersson ended his career a year later. Due to a series of injuries, Petersson helped out at the Swedish first division club IFK Kristianstad for the beginning of the 2010/11 season. In April 2012 he was signed by TuS N-Lübbecke for the last league games of the season and the Final Four in Hamburg. In May 2015, HSV Hamburg signed him to compensate for the injury-related loss of right wingers Hans Lindberg and Stefan Schröder . Peterson tore in his first race for the HSV Hamburg in the EHF European Cup the Achilles tendon .

He is 1.81 meters tall and weighs about 81 kg. He has a son and a daughter with his wife Sofia.

Petersson took over the coaching position of the German third division club HSV Norderstedt in the summer of 2017, who withdrew his team before the start of the 2017/18 season. In the 2018/19 season he was assistant coach for the Swedish second division club Kungälvs HK. In the summer of 2019 he took over the coaching of the women's team at Kärra HF, which also competes in the second highest Swedish league.

successes

• German champion 2002 and 2005
• Swedish champion 2009
• EHF Cup Winner 2002 and 2004
• European champion 2000 and 2002, elected to the All-Star-Team of the EM 2000
• Silver Olympics in 1996 and 2000
• 1999 World Champion, 2nd place 2001 World Cup, elected to the 1999 World Cup All-Star Team, 3rd place 1995 World Cup
• Handball week ranking: Right winger: 3rd 2003, 1st 2002 (n Team of the Year), 6th 2001, 1st 2000, 2nd 1999, 2nd 1998
• Handball magazine ranking: Right wing: 1st 2005 (world class), 4th 2004 (international class), 3rd 2003 (IK), 2nd 2002 (WK), 11th 2001 (national class), 1st 2000 (IK )
• Elected to the League Allstar Team 2001/2002 and 2002/2003
• in the HW team for the 2004 and 2005 seasons

Web links

• Official website
• Johan Petersson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Johan Petersson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Match statistics Johan Petersson. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 7, 2020 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ Portrait on the homepage of THW Kiel
4. ↑ Two ex-zebras fight for outsiders for the Swedish championship
5. ↑ Petersson helps out at IKF Kristianstad
6. ↑ TuS N-Lübbecke signs Johan Petersson ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Hamburg confirms Petersson's commitment and Schröder's failure
8. ↑ HSV confirms Achilles tendon tear at Petersson
9. ↑ handball-world.news: Swedish world champion as new coach: Norderstedt wants to attack with ex-Kieler , accessed on June 29, 2017
10. ↑ handball-world.news: A bang: HSV Norderstedt withdraws from the 3rd division , accessed on June 23, 2019
11. ↑ handbollskanalen.se: Johan Peterssons nya jobb: Assistent i Kungälvs HK , accessed on June 23, 2019
12. ↑ handbollskanalen.se: Clear: Johan Petersson tar över Kärra , accessed on June 23, 2019