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Tomas Runar Svensson (born February 15, 1968 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland) is a Swedish handball player. He is currently playing for Pevafersa Valladolid and the Sweden national handball team.
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Growing up in Eskilstuna it was only natural for him to play for the towns handball team, GUIF, and he was moved up to their senior squad at the age of fifteen. 1988, at the age of twenty, he made his first cap for Sweden and in 1990 he was one of the main forces in the national team who won the world championships. This success landed him a contract with Atlético Madrid BM in Spain where he played for some time before moving to CD Bidasoa. With this team he won his first Spanish championship in 1995. Right after this he moved to Barcelona where he stayed for several seasons, helping the team become the most prominent handball team in the world, winning just about everything there is to win - including international competitions like EHF Champions League and EHF Men’s Champions Trophy as well as Spanish competitions like Liga ASOBAL and Copa del Rey de Balonmano. Svensson moved to Germany and HSV Hamburg for a short while before returning to Spain, this time to play for Portland San Antonio.
In 1991, he survived a plane crash in Gottröra, Sweden.