Tommy Suoraniemi

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Tommy Roger Suoraniemi (born February 28, 1969 in Spånga-Tensta , Stockholm County ) is a Swedish handball coach and former handball player .

With a height of 1.64 m and 65 kg body weight, Suoraniemi is one of the smallest handball players of all time. The outside player initially ran for Tyresö IF and from 1990 for HK Drott Halmstad , with whom he became Swedish champions in 1991 and 1994.

In the Swedish national team Suoraniemi made his debut in 1988. At the 1992 Olympic Games, he was defeated by the CIS in the final and won the silver medal. At the European Championships in 1994 he won the final against Russia and was European champion. By 1995 he played 60 international matches in which he scored 87 goals.

Tommy Suoraniemi has been an assistant coach at HK Drott since 2011 and has been responsible for the second team from 2013. From March 2014 to November 2015 he trained the first team at HK Drott together with Lars-Magnus Jönsson . In September 2016 he took over the coaching position of the Finnish women's national team.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.sok.se Tommy Suoraniemi ( memento of April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 13, 2014
  2. ↑ a b www.svenskhandboll.se Landslaget Herrar Samtliga Internationals (PDF, 287 kB) accessed on April 13, 2014
  3. ↑ Tommy Suoraniemi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  4. ↑ Statistics of the Swedish Handball Federation , accessed on January 3, 2018
  5. ↑ www.hkdrott.se Drott satsar för framtiden ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish) from April 29, 2011, accessed on April 14, 2014
  6. ↑ www.ask-handboll.com Inför div 1 södra 1314 Halmstad Handboll (Swedish) from September 25, 2013, accessed on April 14, 2014
  7. ↑ www.aftonbladet.se Krisklubben sparkar dubble guldtränaren (Swedish) March 1, 2014, accessed September 3, 2015
  8. ↑ www.aftonbladet.se Suoraniemi lämnar Drott (Swedish) from November 1, 2015, accessed on September 5, 2016
  9. ↑ svenska.yle.fi Tommy Suoraniemi tar över damlandslaget i handboll - "Talang finns, det vet jag" (Swedish) from August 4, 2016, accessed on September 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Suoraniemi, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suoraniemi, Tommy Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Spånga-Tensta