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The Norway women's national beach handball team is the national team of
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. It is governed by the
Norwegian Handball Federation '' , abbrev= NHF , logo= , logosize= 250px , countryflag= Norway , iocnation= Kingdom of Norway (NOR) , url= www.Handball.no , sport= Handball , othersport1= Beach Handball , othersport2= Wheelchair Handball , historytitle=HISTORY , precedingorga ...
and it represents Norway in international
beach handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball ...
competitions.


Results

Norway was the bronze medal team at the 2007
European Beach Handball Championship European Beach Handball Championship may refer to * European Men's Beach Handball Championship * European Women's Beach Handball Championship {{Disambig ...
, where
Linn Jørum Sulland Linn Jørum Sulland (born 15 July 1984) is a Norwegian handball player for Oppsal IF and a retired player for the Norwegian national team. She also played for Győri Audi ETO KC, Larvik HK and Stabæk IF. National team Handball She made her d ...
finished as top scorer and
Ingrid Ødegård Ingrid Ødegård (born 1 March 1983, in Trondheim) is a former Norwegian handball goalkeeper, who last played for Byåsen HE. Club career Ingrid Ødegård started her professional career in Sola HK, Stavanger. After three seasons with the club, ...
was named Best Goalkeeper. In 2009 they played in the final of the European tournament, but lost to
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after an even shootout and a golden goal in front of a home audience in
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. Line player Ane Brustuen was awarded Best Player of the women's tournament. They received their first gold medal in 2010, at the 2010 World Championship in
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,
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. Ane Brustuen was named
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of the tournament. They made bronze at the
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world championships.


World Championships


World Games


Controversy

In 2021 the team received international media attention after they were fined 1,500 euros by the
European Handball Federation The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations (England and Scotland), and is headquartered in Vienna, ...
for choosing to wear shorts instead of the mandated bikini bottoms for female players during a bronze medal match against Spain in Bulgaria. Many media figures and social media users called the fine and the mandated bikini rule sexist with many pointing out the hypocrisy that the male teams are allowed to wear the same type of shorts that the females wore at that match. Norway's minister for culture and sport
Abid Raja Abid Qayyum Raja (born 5 November 1975) is a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal Party politician who served as Minister of Culture from 2020 to 2021.; He was elected to the Storting as representative for Akershus in 2013 where he served as second deputy ...
described the fine as being "completely ridiculous". Former tennis champion
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supported the team tweeting "The sexualisation of women athletes must stop". Pop star
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offered to pay the fine for the team.


References


External links


Official websiteIHF profile
Beach handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball ...
Women's national beach handball teams {{Handball-team-stub