Wenche Halvorsen Stensrud (born 1954) 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. She played 91 matches and scored more than 200 goals for the
Norwegian national team between 1975 and 1984.
She participated at the
1982 World Women's Handball Championship
The 1982 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Hungary between 2-12 December 1982.
Qualification
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;Qualified from the 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские и ...
, where the Norwegian team placed seventh.
Stensrud (then Halvorsen) was top scorer ("") in the
Norwegian League in the 1982/83 season (153 goals) and the 1985/86 season (168 goals), playing for the club Skjeberg IF.
After her active career, Stensrud was member of the staff as video analyst for the
Norwegian women's national handball team.
Personal life
Stensrud was born in
Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.
The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...
in 1954.
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1954 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Fredrikstad
Norwegian female handball players
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