Mia Hermansson-Högdahl

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl
Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (2015)
Personal information
Born (1965-05-06) 6 May 1965
Göteborg, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1998 Sweden 216 (1 091)

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (born 6 May 1965) is a Swedish team handball player. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1994[1] by the International Handball Federation.

Hermansson-Högdahl has played 222 matches for the Swedish national team, and scored 1100 times.[2] She was voted into the World team in 1987, 1991 and 1994. As a club player she won the Women's EHF Champions League with Hypo Niederösterreich two times (1993/94, 1994/95).

She is the assistant coach of the Norwegian women's handball team since 2010.

Her daughter, Moa Högdahl is also a professional handballer, playing for Viborg HK and the Norwegian national handball team.

References

  1. "Previous World Handball Players" Archived 2008-01-01 at the Wayback Machine. International Handball Federation (Retrieved on December 14, 2007)
  2. "Mia Hermansson Högdahl ansatt i NHF" Norges Håndballforbund (Retrieved on December 16, 2007)
Awards
Suspended
Title last held by
Jasna Kolar-Merdan
IHF World Player of the Year – Women
1994
Succeeded by
Erzsébet Kocsis
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