Olivia Mellegård (born 17 June 1996) is a Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

player for

IK Sävehof Idrottsklubben Sävehof better known as IK Sävehof is a Sweden, Swedish professional handball club located in Partille Municipality, Partille. Their home matches are played at the Partille Arena which has a capacity of 4,000. Women's team The ...

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, brother of current player Pontus Mellegård and cousin of current player Emil Mellegård.

Career

Mellegård started playing handball at

Önnereds HK Önnereds HK is a handball club based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Around 60 teams are organized in the club. Since 1965, handball has been played in the Gothenburg district of Önnered. In 1985, the club was split into a football and a handball depart ...

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 is a Danish women's handball club from Copenhagen, Denmark. It was established in the winter of 2013. It took over the league licence from Frederiksberg IF and is playing in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen. The club is owned by K ...

, 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 Swedish expatriate handball players in Denmark Handball players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Swedish sportswomen {{Sweden-handball-bio-stub