Johanna Maria Helène Ahlm (born 3 October 1987) is a former Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player. She started and ended her career at the Swedish club IK Sävehof, but other than those tenures she played her entire career in the Danish handball league. She also played for the

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. She competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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, where Sweden placed 8th, and the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, where Sweden placed 11th. Ahlm was listed among the top ten goalscorers at the 2008 Olympics tournament with 40 goals.

Career

Club career

Alhm started as a youth player for IK Sävehof, where she was coached by both her mother and her father. Her first major succes was at the youth tournament

Partille Cup Partille Cup, started by the handball club IK Sävehof, is the world's largest annual tournament in handball in terms of number of participants. The tournament is played every year during one week in July by young people in the ages between 10 and ...

in 2005. With IK Sävehof she won three Swedish championships, before moving to Denmark. She moved to

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, but was immediately loaned to

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is the name of a Danish handball club from Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and European handball sin ...

. The season after she signed permanently for Viborg HK, where she played for three years. At Viborg HK she was hampered by injuries, but nevertheless managed to win the Champions League and Danish league double in 2010. After three years she signed for

Team Esbjerg Team Esbjerg is a women's handball team based in Esbjerg, Denmark, that competes in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen and the 2022–23 Women's EHF Champions League. They play their home matches in Blue Water Dokken, which have capacity for 2,996 specta ...

, where she once again one the Danish league in 2014. Same year she reached the final of the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

, where Team Esbjerg lost to Russian side GK Lada. Before the 2015-2016 season she signed for

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, before returning to her childhood club, IK Sävehof, in 2016. She was however kept away from the pitch for an entire season, first by a cruciate ligament injury, and later by pregnancy. She returned to handball in November 2017. The same season, she won her fourth Swedish Championship. After winning her fifth Swedish Championship the year after, she retired from handball.https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/Wb0j7K/johanna-ahlm-avslutar-karriaren

National team career

She debuted for the national team in 2005 at the age of 18 against Denmark. She was at her first major international tournament at the

2006 European Women's Handball Championship The 2006 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in Sweden from 7 to 17 December. It was won by Norway women's national handball team, Norway after beating Russia women's national handball team, Russia 27–24 in the final match. This ...

, but did not see much playing time. Her real breakthrough came in 2008 at the Olympics. She missed the

2010 European Women's Handball Championship The 2010 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Denmark and Norway from 7–19 December. It was the first European Championship hosted by two countries. Norway won their overall 5th gold medal, when they defeated first time finalist S ...

due to injury.

Achievements

Carpathian Trophy The Carpathian Trophy ( ro, 'Trofeul Carpaţi') is an annual men's and women's friendly handball tournament organised by the Romanian Handball Federation The Romanian Handball Federation ( ro, Federaţia Română de Handbal) (FRH) is the governin ...

: **''Winner'':

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* Swedish League **''winner'': 2006, 2007, 2009, 2018, and 2019 with IK Sävehof * Danish League **''winner'': 2010 with Viborg HK, 2014 with Team Esbjerg * Champions League **''winner'': 2010 with Viborg HK

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahlm, Johanna 1987 births Living people Handball players from Gothenburg Swedish female handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Swedish expatriate handball players Viborg HK players FCM Håndbold players 21st-century Swedish women