Robert Hedin
Swedish handball player
Gunnar Robert Hedin (born 2 February 1966) is a Swedish handball coach and retired player who won silver medals at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He also won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championship, playing alongside his younger brother Tony and gold medals at the 1994 European Championship.
Today he is the head coach of the United States men's national handball team and the Norwegian club Fjellhammer IL.
From 2008 to 2014 he was the coach of the Norwegian national handball team.
Career
Hedin played for IFK Ystad HK in Sweden, Stavanger in Norway, Benidorm in Spain, GWD Minden, TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke and SV Post Schwerin in Germany and TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen in Switzerland.
From January 2007 to the summer of 2009 he was the coach of the German Handball-Bundesliga team MT Melsungen.
In October 2008 he took over as the Norwegian national team head coach. Here he was until 2014. He was in this position until 2014, where he was replaced by Christian Berge.
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