Sindre Walstad
Player information | |
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Full name | Sindre Yngve Walstad |
birthday | September 30, 1972 |
place of birth | Lørenskog , Norway |
citizenship | Norwegian |
height | 1.96 m |
Playing position | goalkeeper |
Throwing hand | right |
Clubs in the youth | |
from ... to | society |
- | Fjellhammer IL |
- | Bækkelagets SK Oslo |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
- | Fredensborg / Ski |
-1997 | Sandefjord TIF |
1997-1999 | HSG Dutenhofen |
1999-2000 | Viking Stavanger |
2000-2002 | SG Solingen |
2002-2005 | KIF Kolding |
2005-2009 | Sandefjord TIF |
National team | |
Debut on | 3rd October 1994 |
against | Belarus |
Games (goals) | |
Norway | 85 (0) |
Status: national team February 20, 2010 |
Sindre Yngve Walstad (born September 30, 1972 in Lørenskog , Norway ) is a former Norwegian handball player . His height is 1.96 m.
Walstad, who last played for the Norwegian top club Sandefjord TIF (shirt number 1) and previously played for the Norwegian men's national handball team, was a handball goalkeeper .
Sindre Walstad started playing handball at Fjellhammer IL near his hometown. He later came to Fredensborg / Ski via the next larger Bækkelagets SK Oslo , where he made his debut in the Norwegian first division, the Postenligaen . He quickly drew attention to himself, so that he was signed by the top club Sandefjord TIF. There he won the championship and cup in 1991 and 1993. In 1997 he moved abroad for the first time, namely to HSG Dutenhofen in the German 2nd handball league . He made sports history with the Wetzlar team when he was the first ever second division team to make it to a European Cup final in 1998, namely the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . In the same year he rose to the first German handball league with the Hessians , but returned to his Norwegian homeland in 1999, where he joined Viking Stavanger. However, he stayed there only a year before moving to Germany for the second time in 2000, this time to the newly promoted SG Solingen . But when he and the men from Bergisches Land were relegated again in 2002, he moved on to KIF Kolding in Denmark . There he won the Danish Championship in 2003 and 2005 and the Danish Cup in 2005. In 2005 he returned to his old club Sandefjord TIF, with which he again won the Norwegian championship in 2006. In 2009 Walstad ended his career.
Sindre Walstad has made 85 international appearances for the Norwegian men's handball team in his career . His greatest success with Norway was 7th place in the men's handball world championship in 2005 . With Norway he took u. a. also participated in the European handball championship in 2006 , but dropped out after the preliminary round. At the 2007 men's handball world championship in Germany, he was only part of the extended squad in his country; then he ended his international career.
Web links
- Walstad on the Sandefjord website ( memento from 23 August 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of Walstad at the 2005 World Cup
- Sindre Walstad in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walstad in the Dutenhofen squad
- ↑ Walstad no longer in the Dutenhofen squad
- ^ Walstad in the Solingen squad
- ↑ handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Walstad, Sindre Yngve , accessed on December 26, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Walstad, Sindre |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walstad, Sindre Yngve |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian handball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lørenskog , Norway |