Andreas Nilsson (born 12 April 1990) 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 ...

player for

Telekom Veszprém Telekom may refer to: *A1 Telekom Austria Group, Austria **A1 Telekom Austria *Deutsche Telekom, Germany **Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia **Magyar Telekom, Hungary **Crnogorski Telekom, Montenegro **Makedonski Telekom, North Macedonia **Telekom Romania, ...

and the Swedish national team. He competed for the Swedish national team 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 ...

in London, winning a silver medal, and the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in Rio. Nilsson won the EHF Champions League with

HSV Hamburg Handball Sport Verein Hamburg is a handball club from Germany, located in Hamburg. Currently, Handball Hamburg competes in the Handball-Bundesliga. The full name in German is ''Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V.'' but the club has traditionally b ...

during the 2012–13 season. On 12 June 2016 he was chosen as Swedish "Handballer of the Year".

Honours

Individual

SEHA League South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast and East Europe, divided in two zones. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is also known as the Gazprom League (or Gazprom South ...

All-Star Team Best Line Player: 2019–20

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* 1990 births Living people People from Trelleborg Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Hungary IFK Skövde players Veszprém KC players Expatriate handball players Handball-Bundesliga players Sportspeople from Skåne County 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub