Kristin Venn (born 5 March 1994) is a Norwegian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who plays for the Norwegian club Storhamar HE. She was also a part of

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's 28-squad for the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship as well as the 28-squad for the 2014 European Women's Handball Championship. She has already participated for Norway's recruit team. She also represented Norway in 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th. On 4 October 2017, Venn announced that she will not be playing anymore for the national team. She is going to focus on playing for her club

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and just enjoy playing handball. She later opened up for the possibility to fight for a spot on the national team, and is currently a part of the extended squad (the recruit team).

Achievements

* Youth European Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'':

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* Youth World Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'':

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Achievements

* Norwegian League ** Silver: 2020/2021, 2021/2022 *Norwegian Cup: **''Finalist'': 2018, 2019

Individual awards

* All-Star Left Wing of the Youth European Championship:

* All-Star Left Wing of the U18 European Open: 2012 * All-Star Left Wing of Eliteserien: 2018/2019

References

1994 births Living people People from Skaun Norwegian female handball players Sportspeople from Trøndelag {{Norway-handball-bio-stub