Jamina Roberts | |
Fullname: | Jamina Caroline Roberts |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Birth Date: | 28 May 1990 |
Birth Place: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Height: | 1.76 m |
Position: | Left back |
Currentclub: | Vipers Kristiansand |
Clubnumber: | 8 |
Years1: | 2009–2014 |
Clubs1: | IK Sävehof |
Years2: | 2014–2016 |
Clubs2: | TTH Holstebro |
Years3: | 2016–2017 |
Clubs3: | IK Sävehof |
Years4: | 2017–2018 |
Clubs4: | Érd HC |
Years5: | 2018–2020 |
Clubs5: | Randers HK |
Years6: | 2020–2022 |
Clubs6: | IK Sävehof |
Years7: | 2022– |
Clubs7: | Vipers Kristiansand |
Nationalyears1: | 2010– |
Nationalteam1: | Sweden[1] |
Nationalcaps1: | 242 |
Nationalgoals1: | 634 |
Jamina Caroline Roberts (born 28 May 1990) is a Swedish professional handball player for Vipers Kristiansand and the Swedish national team.[2] [3] As of 2024 she has the second most caps for the Swedish national team ever, and the most of any active players.
She competed at the 2012, 2016[4] 2020 and 2024 Olympics. At the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship she reached the final and won a silver medal with the Swedish team.[5]
Roberts is part Aruban through her father, the body builder James Roberts.[6] Her younger brother, Kelvin Roberts, is also a handball player.
Privately she is together with the Swedish handballer Emil Berggren since 2010. In 2020 they had a daughter together.[7]
Roberts started at Swedish club IK Sävehof, where she won the Swedish championship 6 times, every season between her debut in 2009 and 2014.
In 2014 she switched to Danish club TTH Holstebro. Here she played with her former teammates Linn Blohm and Nathalie Hagman. After two seasons in Denmark, her club was in economic trouble and could not extend her contract, and therefore she returned to her old club, IK Sävehof.[8]
In 2017 she joined Hungarian side Érd HC for a single season, before joining Danish club Randers HK.In 2020 she returned to Sweden for a third stint at IK Sävehof.
Since 2022 she has been at Norwegian club Vipers Kristiansand, where she won the EHF Champions League 2022/2023.