Marita Skammelsrud Lund (born 29 January 1989) is a Norwegian

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. She began as a midfielder, but for the

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she plays at right back and at her club,

LSK Kvinner FK LSK Kvinner Fotballklubb is a Norwegian women's football club from Lillestrøm. They currently play in Toppserien, the top division of Norwegian football. The club was founded as Setskog/Høland Fotballklubb on 10 October 1989. History The cl ...

, she usually plays as central midfield. Lund has previously played for

Lisleby FK Lisleby Fotballklubb is a multi-sports club from Fredrikstad, Norway. The team plays football and athletics at Lisleby Stadion. The club was founded as an association football club on 8 May 1920. Two years later, the club expanded with athletic ...

, Skogstrand and Flyers and Vikings Singapore. She lived in

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for four years from 1997 until 2001.

Career

Lund has won 27 caps for

, while scoring two goals. In October 2007 she was drafted into the senior squad for a match against

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, aged 18, following an injury to Marit Fiane Christensen. Lund then played for Norway at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in China. She also represented Norway in the

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...

, where her pace and versatility were praised by the coach, and the

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. Marita Skammelsrud Lund is the niece of Bent Skammelsrud, former captain of

Rosenborg BK Rosenborg Ballklub, commonly referred to simply as Rosenborg () or RBK, is a Norwegian professional football club from Trondheim that plays in Eliteserien. The club has won a record 26 league titles, a shared record 12 Norwegian Football Cup ti ...

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* * 1989 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Norway 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players People from Lørenskog Norwegian expatriates in Singapore Toppserien players LSK Kvinner FK players Women's association football midfielders Sportspeople from Viken (county) {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub