Robert Weber (handball player)

Robert Weber

Robert Weber 2010
Player information
birthday	25th November 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Bregenz , Austria
citizenship	Austrian
height	1.78 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	HSG Nordhorn-Lingen
Jersey number	8th
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2004-2008	Alpla HC Hard
2008-2009	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
2009-2019	SC Magdeburg
2019–	HSG Nordhorn-Lingen
National team
Debut on	April 19, 2004
	Games (goals)
Austria	175 (764)
As of January 5, 2020

Robert Weber (born November 25, 1985 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian handball player .

Career

Weber has been playing in the handball Bundesliga since 2008 , initially for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten , and from 2009 for SC Magdeburg . Before that he played in Austria for Alpla HC Hard . In the 2004/05 season he was voted "Newcomer of the Year" by the Handball League Austria in Vorarlberg . In the 2010/11 season of the Handball Bundesliga, Weber led the scorers list for more than half the season and was only pushed to second place on the last match day. After taking second place in the list of goalscorers with 242 goals in 2013/14 , he became the first SC Magdeburg player to be the top scorer in the handball Bundesliga in 2014/15 with 271 goals . He has been playing for HSG Nordhorn-Lingen since the 2019/20 season .

Weber has scored 801 goals in 183 games for the Austrian national team . He took part in the 2014 European Handball Championship . At the men's handball world championship in 2015 in Qatar , he reached the round of 16 for the first time with Austria, in which he was narrowly defeated by the hosts. With 42 goals in six games, he was the best thrower in his team. At the European handball championship 2020 he scored 35 goals in 7 games and achieved the highest of the participating Austrian national players and the fifth highest in the entire tournament with a goal rate of 73% of all throws.

Private

Robert Weber's brother Thomas is also an active handball player. The left winger currently played for Alpla HC Hard .

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2008/09	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten	Bundesliga	33	111	8th	103
2009/10	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	34	188	46	142
2010/11	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	34	242	103	139
2011/12	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	32	121	9	112
2012/13	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	30th	155	54	101
2013/14	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	34	242	107	135
2014/15	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	36	271	99	172
2015/16	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	32	224	79	145
2016/17	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	34	219	85	134
2017/18	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	31	169	65	104
2008-2018	total	Bundesliga	330	1942	655	1287

successes

• 1 × HLA "Newcomer of the Year" 2004/05
• 1 × DHB Cup winner 2016
• 1 × top scorer in the handball Bundesliga (2014/15)

Web links

Commons : Robert Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Robert Weber in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oehb.at: Robert Weber as of January 5, 2020
2. ↑ List of Newcomer of the Year on oehb.at ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Weber brothers in World Cup qualification . handball-world.news. June 26, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
4. ↑ Weber brothers in World Cup qualification . vn.at. March 22, 2014. Accessed February 26, 2019.