Nina Koppang | |
Fullname: | Nina Beate Koppang |
Birth Date: | 31 May 2002 |
Birth Place: | Vadstena, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish Norwegian |
Height: | 1.77 m |
Position: | Right back |
Currentclub: | Vipers Kristiansand |
Clubnumber: | 9 |
Youthyears1: | –2018 |
Youthclubs1: | Vadstena HF |
Youthyears2: | 2018–2020 |
Youthclubs2: | IK Sävehof |
Years1: | 2020–2024 |
Clubs1: | IK Sävehof |
Years2: | 2024– |
Clubs2: | Vipers Kristiansand |
Nationalyears1: | 2021– |
Nationalteam1: | Sweden |
Nationalcaps1: | 38 |
Nationalgoals1: | 68 |
Nina Koppang, (born 31 May 2002) is a Swedish handball player who plays for Vipers Kristiansand and the Sweden women's national handball team.[1]
Koppang started playing handball in Vadstena HF. She also played football in Vadstena GIF. In 2018 she moved from Vadstena to attend a sports school, and with that she changed to IK Sävehof's youth team. She also continued playing football, now for Göteborg FC's youth team, however only for around 6 months until she decided to quit football and fully focus on handball.[2] The season of 2020/21 was her first in IK Sävehof's senior team.[3]
When she was 16 she played for the Swedish U16 national team in football.[4] In handball, she participated in the U17 European Championship 2019, where Sweden brought home a silver medal.[5] She also participated in the U19 European Championship 2021, where Sweden ended up on the fourth place. There, she was chosen for the All-Star Team as best right back.[6] She made a debut in the senior national team in April 2021 in a game against Hungary, when Sweden's original squad had a Coronavirus outbreak and had to be fully replaced.[7]
She is the younger half-sister of the Swedish football player Stina Blackstenius, and daughter of former Norwegian fencer Nils Koppang.