Emelie Wibron
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| National team | Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 February 1992 Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Floorball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Swedish Super League (2008–) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emelie Wibron (born 27 February 1992) is a Swedish floorball player and national team member. She is a seven-time world champion, nine-time Swedish champion, seven-time Champions Cup winner, and was named the world's best floorball player in 2022. She has been playing in the Swedish Super League since 2008.
Club career
Youth
In her youth, Wibron played football, where she was also introduced to floorball during training, which gradually became her main sport. She initially played for the local team Sundsvalls IBF, for which she competed in the second-highest league in her final year there. In 2007, at the age of 15, she moved to Umeå to study at a sports gymnasium, where she competed for its club RIG Umeå IBF.[1][2] A year later, she began playing for the local club IKSU in the top Swedish league.[2]
IKSU
During her first spell at IKSU, she played for the team for five years. In the 2011–12 season, they won the gold medal, with Wibron herself scoring two goals in the final.[3] In addition, during this period they earned three silvers. Moreover, in 2009 and 2010 they twice won the EuroFloorball Cup, and in 2012, under the new format, the Champions Cup. In 2013, she signed a three-year contract with Pixbo IBK, but after just one season she returned to IKSU.[4][5]
After reuniting with the team, she moved from her original defensive position to offense. In 2016, she extended her contract with IKSU for another ten years, and in the following four seasons won three more league titles, as well as two more Champions Cup gold medals in 2017 and 2019.[6][7][8][9] She also became the team captain.[10] In total, she played 10 seasons for IKSU.[2]
Thorengruppen
After the COVID-19 season of 2019–20, despite winning the league, IKSU was dissolved due to financial reasons, and its team was taken over by the club Team Thorengruppen, where Wibron continued in her role as captain.[11][12] She spent much of her first season with Thorengruppen away from the game due to pregnancy, but she returned for the playoffs and helped the club win its first championship title.[13] Their dominant position in the league continued, confirmed by defending the gold medal in the following four seasons. In the first three of those, between 2021 and 2024, Wibron was each time the league's top scorer with more than 80 points.[14] Thorengruppen also won the Champions Cup in both 2023 and 2024.[15] They won the Swedish Cup three times as well.[16]
In 2025, Wibron surpassed the historical record of 770 points held by Anna Wijk in the all-time scoring of the Swedish Super League.[17]
International career
Wibron played for the Swedish under-19 national team at two World Championships, in 2008 and 2010. At both tournaments she was named to the All-Star Team, and at the second one, Sweden won the gold medal.[18][19]
She first played for the women's national team at the World Championship in 2009 at the age of 17, where she won her first title. In the final, she recorded one assist.[1] At the next championships (also victorious), she was named to the All-Star Team.[20] Surprisingly, she was not selected for the 2013 World Championships.[21] However, she returned to play at the next five championships between 2015 and 2023. Sweden defended the gold medal at all of them.[16] At the 2021 championships final, she scored the winning goal in overtime.[22] She also registered points in the finals of the 2015 and 2017 championships. At the latter, as the tournament's second-highest scorer, she was again named to the All-Star Team and was selected as the Most Valuable Player.[23] She was selected for the All-Star Team again at the following championships.[24] At the first women's tournament at the World Games in 2025, the Swedish team lost in the finals, their first major international match loss since 2005.[25]
In 2021, Wibron became the first Swedish player to score 100 goals for the national team.[26] At the World Championship the same year, she broke Isabell Krantz's record with 111 international appearances.[27] After another tournament in 2023, she shares the record of 98 points at World Championships with Switzerland's Corin Rüttimann.[28]
| Year | Team | Event | Result |
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| 2008 | Sweden U-19 | WFC U-19 | |
| 2009 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2010 | Sweden U-19 | WFC U-19 | |
| 2011 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2015 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2017 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2019 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2021 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2023 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2025 | Sweden | WG | |
| 2025 | Sweden | WFC | 4th |
Awards
In 2022, Wibron was named the world's best floorball player in a poll conducted by Innebandymagazinet magazine.[16][13] In 2012, 2017, and 2018 she finished second in the voting.
She was named the best Swedish female player in 2019, 2022, and 2023. In the Swedish Super League, she was chosen as the best defender in 2012 and 2015, and as the best forward in 2016, 2022, and 2023.[16]
References
- ^ a b "Guldmedaljör som inte vill göra något halvdant". www.umu.se (in Swedish). 8 May 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ a b c "Sommarläsning - VIBF möter Emelie Wibron och Johan Samuelsson Del 2". Västernorrland (in Swedish). 1 July 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Grattis Iksu till SM-guld i innebandy!". www.umu.se (in Swedish). 22 April 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ Borgström, Anders (18 April 2013). "Wibron bekräftar: Jag lämnar Iksu för Pixbo". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Stjärnbackens nya roll: "Har inget svar"". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 28 September 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Innebandy: "Livstidskontrakt" för innebandystjärna". SVT Sport (in Swedish). 22 April 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Innebandy: Iksu svenska mästare". SVT Sport (in Swedish). 21 April 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Innebandy: Innebandyförbundet avslutar säsongen – Iksu och Falun svenska mästare". SVT Sport (in Swedish). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Pohár mistrů: vysoké prohry florbalistů Boleslavi i vítkovických žen". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 4 January 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Inside IKSU – Del 3: "Det är till innebandygudarna"". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 4 March 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "IKSU by tento týden mělo oznámit konec, právní bitvu o nástupnictví vyhrává Thorengruppen" (in Czech). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Efter SM-guldet – nu ska dom bli bäst i världen". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 26 April 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Innebandy: Wibron: "Det första av många framgångsrika år"". SVT Sport (in Swedish). 24 April 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ Jansson, Henrik (6 July 2024). "Klart: Emelie Wibron har tagit sitt beslut om framtiden". Innebandymagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Thorengruppen win the Women's 2024 Champions Cup". IFF Main Site. 27 January 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Emelie Wibron - Kontrakt, Statistik, Meriter". Innebandymagazinet (in Swedish). 8 November 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ Jansson, Henrik (14 March 2025). "Tre SSL-rekord slogs samma kväll". Innebandymagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "3rd Women's U19 World Championships". www.floorball.org. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "České florbalistky slaví premiérovou medaili na juniorském mistrovství světa". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 8 May 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Jana Christianová patří do All Stars" (in Czech). 11 December 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Emelie Wibron nicht an der WM". Unihockey.ch (in German). 20 November 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Women's WFC 2021 gold to Sweden with overtime win". IFF Main Site. 5 December 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Švédské florbalistky porazily Finsko a pošesté v řadě vyhrály šampionát". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 9 December 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Finsko - Česko 5:4 PP, Češky jsou bez medaile. Mistryněmi světa posedmé za sebou Švédky". www.sport.cz (in Czech). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ Jansson, Henrik (13 August 2025). "Svenskt silver efter 13 mardrömssekunder i finalen". Innebandymagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "October Internationals Weekend 2021 results". IFF Main Site. 18 October 2021. Archived from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ Westlund, Victor (4 December 2021). "Emelie Wibron historisk – spelat flest landskamper någonsin". Innebandymagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "Emelie Wibron and Corin Rüttimann share the record for most points at WFC". IFF Main Site. 20 December 2023. Archived from the original on 11 February 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.