Marit Røsberg Jacobsen (born 25 February 1994) is a Norwegian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

player for Team Esbjerg and the Norwegian national team.

Career

Jacobsen started her career at Ankenes HK, followed by Charlottenlund SK and Selbu IL. In 2014 she joined

Byåsen IL Byåsen Idrettslag is a multi-sport club from Trondheim, Norway. It has sections for association football (one for elite, one for women's and one for grassroots football), athletics, handball (one for elite and one for grassroots handball), orient ...

. In 2018, she joined Danish club Team Esbjerg auf. Here she won the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2022-23, and 2023-24 Danish championships and the 2011 and 2022 Danish cup. In the 2021-22, she was on the Danish league all star team as the right wing. In 2019, she reached the final of the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

, but Esbjerg lost to Hungarian

Siófok KC Siófok Kézilabda Club is a former Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball team from Siófok, that currently play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II (women's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság II. They have competed in lower divisions until 2006, wh ...

. In February 2025, she took a break from handball due to pregnancy.

National team

Jacobsen played 34 games for the various Norwegian youth national teams. She represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th, and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th. She made her debut on the Norwegian national team 1 June 2016. A year later, she played at her first major international tournament, when Norway won silver medals the 2017 World Championship. She also represented Norway at the 2018 European Championship. Two years later, she won her first gold medal with Norway, when they won the 2020 European Championship. During the tournament, she scored 9 goals. At the 2021 Olympics, she won silver medals, losing to France in the final. Jacobsen scored 11 goals during the tournament. Later the same year, she won the 2021 World Championship. At the

2024 Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

in Paris, she won gold medals. Later the same year, she won the 2024 European Championship, beating Denmark in the final.

Achievements

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

: **''Winner:'' 2024 **''Bronze:'' 2020 *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Winner'': 2021 **''Silver Medalist'': 2017 *

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

: **''Winner'': 2020, 2024 * Youth European Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Bronze medalist'': 2023/2024, 2024/2025 *

: **''Finalist'':

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* Danish League: **''Gold Medalist'': 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 *

Danish Cup The Danish Cup (; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "single-elimination tournament, knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955. The winner will ...

: **''Gold Medalist'': 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Individual awards

* All-Star Right Wing of the Youth World Championship:

* All-Star Right Wing of Grundigligaen: 2015/2016 * All-Star Right Wing of Eliteserien: 2017/2018 * All-Star Right Wing of

Damehåndboldligaen The Kvindeligaen () is the top professional league for Danish women's handball clubs. It is administered by the Danish Handball Federation, and the winners are recognized as Danish champions. The league was previously called Bambusa Kvindeligaen ...

: 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021

Personal life

In February 2025, she announced she was expecting her first child.

References

External links

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Marit Røsberg Jacobsen
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Norwegian Handball Federation The Norwegian Handball Federation (, NHF) is the national handball association in Norway. The Norwegian Handball Federation was founded in 1937, and is a member of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) ...

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Marit Jacobsen
at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobsen, Marit Rosberg 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Narvik Norwegian female handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic handball players for Norway 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway