Isabelle Therese Gulldén (born 29 June 1989) is a Swedish former professional

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who last played for

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and also a former national team player for the Swedish National Team.

Career

In 2008, 2012, and 2016 she was part of the Swedish team competing at the

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. In 2014, she ranked among the 150 greatest Swedish athletes of all time, list published by ''

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''. Gulldén was the only female handballer alongside legendary

Mia Hermansson-Högdahl Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (born 6 May 1965) is a Sweden, Swedish team handball player and handball coach. She was voted IHF World Player of the Year, World Handball Player of the Year 1994 Honorary Citizen Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honor usually is symbolic and does not confer an ...

") of the city of

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in 2016. She retired from the national team on 15 December 2020.

Achievements

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

: **''Silver'':

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

**''Bronze'':

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Swedish Elite League The Swedish Hockey League (SHL; ) is a professional ice hockey league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish ice hockey system. The league currently consists of 14 teams. The league was founded in 1975, and while Swedish ice hockey cham ...

: **''Gold'': 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 * Danish League: **''Gold'': 2014 *

Danish Cup The Danish Cup (; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "single-elimination tournament, knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955. The winner will ...

: **''Gold'': 2011, 2013 * Romanian Liga Națională: **''Gold'': 2016, 2017, 2018 *Romanian Cupa României: **''Gold'': 2016, 2017, 2018 *

French League The French League (: "French League for Purge, purging, mutual aid (politics), mutual aid and European integration, European collaboration") was a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaborationist French movement founded by Pier ...

: **''Gold'': 2021 *

French Cup The Coupe de France (), also known in English as the French Cup or less commonly as the France Cup, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is ...

: **''Gold'': 2021 *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Gold'':

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

**''Silver'':

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

**''Bronze'':

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

: **''Gold'': 2014 **''Silver'':

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

* Norwegian League: **''Winner'': 2021/2022 *Norwegian Cup: **''Winner'': 2021

International goals

Individual awards

* Swedish Elitserien Young Player of the Season: 2008 *

Top Scorer: 2014 *

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of the

* European Championship Top Scorer:

* EHF Champions League Top Scorer:

* Romanian Liga Națională Best Foreign Player: 2015, 2016, 2017 *

Best Player of All Time *Swedish Female Handballer of the Year: 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018 * Handball-Planet.com All-Star Playmaker: 2016 * Handball-Planet.com Best Buy: 2015–16 *

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All-Star Centre Back of the Romanian Liga Națională: 2017,

Personal life

She is the niece of Christer Gulldén, a famous Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. Her father Peter also competed in wrestling. She is married to former handball goalkeeper, Linus Persson. Their son, Lias was born on 10 July 2019.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gullden, Isabelle 1989 births Living people Handball players from Gothenburg Swedish female handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Sweden Viborg HK players IK Sävehof players Lugi HF players Swedish expatriate handball players in Denmark Swedish expatriate handball players in France Swedish expatriate handball players in Romania Swedish expatriate handball players in Norway 21st-century Swedish sportswomen Brest Bretagne players