Olivia Mellegård (born 17 June 1996) is a Swedish handball player for

IK Sävehof IK Sävehof is a Swedish handball team located in Partille. Their home matches are played at the Partille Arena which has a capacity of 4,000. Women's team The women's team competes in Svensk Handbollselit. They won the championship 15 times (1 ...

and the Swedish national team. Mellegård comes from a family of handballers. She is the daughter of former handball player Glenn Gustavsson, niece of former handball player Mikael Mellegård and cousin of current player Emil Mellegård.https://handbollsligan.se/herrligan/mellegard-pappa-ar-en-stor-forebild/

Career

Mellegård started playing handball at Önnereds HK at the age of 6. In 2013 she was part of the Sweden national team that won the U17 European Championship, where she was part of the all star team. In 2015 she went to

. A year later she was called up to the Sweden national team. In 2019 she switched to Danish side

København Håndbold København Håndbold (''Copenhagen Handball'') is a Danish women's handball club from Copenhagen, Denmark. It was established in the spring 2013. It took over the league licence from Frederiksberg IF and is playing in the Danish Women's Handball ...

, but in 2022 she went back to

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* 1996 births Living people Handball players from Gothenburg Swedish female handball players IK Sävehof players Expatriate handball players Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Handball players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Swedish women {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub