Sander Sagosen

Sander Sagosen

Sander Sagosen (2017)
Player information
birthday	September 14, 1995
place of birth	Trondheim , Norway
citizenship	Norwegian
height	1.92 m
Playing position	Back center
	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	THW Kiel
Jersey number	5
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000–2012	Charlottenlund SK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2012-2013	Kolstad IL
2013-2014	Haslum HK
2014-2017	Aalborg Håndbold
2017-2020	Paris Saint-Germain
2020–	THW Kiel
National team
Debut on	1. November 2013
against	Croatia
	Games (goals)
Norway	105 (498)
Status: July 18, 2020

Sander Sagosen (born September 14, 1995 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian handball player who is mostly used on the back center . He is considered the "superstar" of the Norwegian national handball team.

Career

The 1.92 m tall and 82 kg heavy right-hander began playing handball at the Norwegian club Charlottenlund SK in Trondheim. For the 2012/13 season he went to the second division Kolstad IL , where he scored 133 goals in 21 games and was the third top scorer in the league. Thereupon the first division side Haslum HK signed him , which he threw with 102 goals in 22 games for first place after the main round. In the following championship round he was eliminated with Haslum in the group stage. For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Danish club Aalborg Håndbold . With Aalborg he won the Danish championship in 2017. From the 2017/18 season he was under contract with the French first division club Paris Saint-Germain . With Paris he won the French championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and the French cup in 2018. On March 22, 2019 it was announced that Sagosen will be moving to THW Kiel in 2020 .

Sander Sagosen went through the Norwegian youth and junior national teams. At the U-18 European Championship in 2012, he was ninth, scored 19 goals and distributed 40 assists. At the U-19 World Cup in 2013, he finished fifth. There he scored 57 goals and gave 14 assists. Sagosen made his debut in the Norwegian national team on November 1, 2013 against Croatia . At the 2014 European Championship , he was eliminated after the preliminary round. With Norway he was runner- up in 2017 and 2019 and third in the European championship in 2020 . He was elected to the All-Star Team at the 2019 World Cup and the 2020 European Championship. So far, he has played 105 international matches in which he scored 498 goals.

Private

Sagosen is in a relationship with the former Norwegian handball player Hanna Bredal Oftedal .

Web links

Commons : Sander Sagosen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sander Sagosen on the THW Kiel website
• Sander Sagosen on the Aalborg Håndbold website
• Sander Sagosen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.handball.no Topscore , accessed on April 12, 2014.
2. ↑ www.haslumhk.no Stortalent klar for Haslum HK (Norwegian) from April 2013, accessed on April 12, 2014
3. ↑ www.handball-world.com Danish champion Aalborg secures Norwegian talent from April 12, 2014, accessed on April 12, 2014
4. ↑ www.handball-world.com Paris secures top European talent from June 22, 2016, accessed on June 22, 2016
5. ↑ Merle Schaack: THW Kiel confirms Sagosen transfer. In: Kiel News . March 22, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ www.ihf.info Topscorer (PDF, 239 kB) accessed on April 12, 2014
7. ↑ handball.result.com Cumulative Statistics Norway (PDF, 150 kB) accessed on April 12, 2014
8. ↑ competition.ihf.info: 26th IHF Men's World Championship All-Star Team , accessed on February 1, 2019
9. ↑ handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Sagosen, Sander , accessed on July 18, 2020
10. ↑ www.vg.no: Håndballkjærestene Sagosen og Bredal Oftedal bor 134 mil fra hverandre , accessed on January 27, 2017