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Nina Koppang

Swedish handball player (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nina Koppang, (born 31 May 2002) is a Swedish handball player who plays for Team Esbjerg and the Sweden women's national handball team.[1]

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Career

Koppang started playing handball in Vadstena HF. She also played football in Vadstena GIF. In 2018 she moved from Vadstena to attend a sports school, and with that she changed to IK Sävehof's youth team. She also continued playing football, now for Göteborg FC's youth team, however only for around 6 months until she decided to quit football and fully focus on handball.[2] The season of 2020/21 was her first in IK Sävehof's senior team.[3]

She signed for Norwegian club Vipers Kristiansand in 2024, only to leave less than a year later when the club went bankrupt.[4]

When she was 16 she played for the Swedish U16 national team in football.[5] In handball, she participated in the U17 European Championship 2019, where Sweden brought home a silver medal.[6] She also participated in the U19 European Championship 2021, where Sweden ended up on the fourth place. There, she was chosen for the All-Star Team as best right back.[7] She made a debut in the senior national team in April 2021 in a game against Hungary, when Sweden's original squad had a Coronavirus outbreak and had to be fully replaced.[8]

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Personal life

She is the younger half-sister of the Swedish football player Stina Blackstenius,[2] and daughter of former Norwegian fencer Nils Koppang.[9]

References

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