Niclas Ekberg (born 23 December 1988) is a 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 ...

er for

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 22 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed the treble, win ...

and the Swedish national team. He was part of the Swedish team that won silver at 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 ...

. He was also part of the Swedish national team that won the 2022 European championship, where he scored the final winning goal for Sweden in the last second with a penalty shot. Before playing in Kiel he played for

AG København AG København (former name: AG Håndbold) was a Danish handball club from Glostrup and Albertslund, two suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. In the season 2010/2011 it plays in the Danish Handball League. Their head coach was former Danish national t ...

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* 1988 births Living people People from Ystad Municipality Swedish male handball players Expatriate handball players Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players of Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Ystads IF players THW Kiel players Handball-Bundesliga players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Skåne County 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub