Brit Sandaune (born 5 June 1972) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

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and pre-school teacher. She is originally from the rural area of

Skatval Skatval is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the Skatval peninsula about northwest of the town of Stjørdalshalsen. The inhabitants are called as ''Skatvalsbygg''. Skatval Church is lo ...

in the municipality of

Stjørdal Stjørdal () or is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stjørdal, also called Stjørdalshalsen. Some of the villages in the municip ...

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

, and is educated in

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and

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. Brit is today settled in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, an ...

with her cohabitant Roy Nilsen.

Football

Brit Sandaune has (per 2001) won six league championships and seven Norwegian national championship (with

Trondheims-Ørn SK Rosenborg Ballklub Kvinner (previously known as Sportsklubben Trondheims-Ørn) is a Norwegian women's professional football club in Trondheim, Trøndelag. History The club was founded as a multi-sports club on May 18, 1917, and became a me ...

) in women's soccer. She is an Olympic Gold and Bronze medallist. Sandaune played 120 international matches for Norway, scoring nine goals. With the Norway team she went to the

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in 1996 in Atlanta, winning Bronze. Four years later at the

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Olympics she won Gold with the Norwegian team. In July 2002 Brit reached 100 matches played for the A-team. She got the Fair Play prize in woman soccer in 2000. At club level Sandaune played a record 507 matches for Trondheims-Ørn, winning the Norwegian cup competition eight times and the Toppserien league seven times between 1993 and 2003.

External links

Profile on Tronheim-Ørn
Norwegian women's footballers 1972 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Norway FIFA Century Club Olympic medalists in football Toppserien players SK Trondheims-Ørn players Norway women's international footballers Women's association footballers not categorized by position 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-stub