Óli Mittún (born 10 June 2005) is a
Faroese handball
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player for
GOG HÃ¥ndbold
GOG is a professional handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 9 times and the Danish Handball Cup a r ...
and the
Faroese national team.
He participated at the
2022 European U-18 Championship,
2022 European U-20 Championship and the
2023 World U-19 Championship.
Honours
*
Swedish Handball League
**''Winner:'' 2024
**''Runner-up:'' 2023
;Individual awards
*
MVP
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* Most valuable player, an award, typically for the best performing player in a sport or competition
* Minimum viable product, a concept for feature estimating used in business and engineering
MVP may also refer to:
...
at the
2022 European U-18 Championship
* Top scorer at the
2022 European U-18 Championship (80 goals)
* All-Star Team as Best centre back at the
2023 World U-19 Championship
* Top scorer at the 2023 World U-19 Championship (87 goals)
* Top scorer at the
2024 European U-20 Championship (76 goals)
*
MVP
MVP most commonly refers to:
* Most valuable player, an award, typically for the best performing player in a sport or competition
* Minimum viable product, a concept for feature estimating used in business and engineering
MVP may also refer to:
...
at the
2025 U21 World Championship
* Top scorer at the 2025 World U21 Championship (73 goals)
Personal life
He is the cousin of handball playing brothers
Elias
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and
Rói Ellefsen á Skipagøtu.
His older brother
Pauli Mittún
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* Andrea Pauli (born 1977), German developmental biologist and biochemist
* Arthur Pauli (born 1989), Austrian ski jumper
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and older sister
Jana Mittún are also handball players. Through their mothers, the Mittún and Ellefsen á Skipagøtu siblings are grandchildren of former Faroese prime minister
Pauli Ellefsen.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mittun, Oli
2005 births
Living people
Faroese male handball players
Expatriate handball players in Sweden
IK Sävehof players
Faroese expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Sportspeople from Tórshavn
21st-century Danish sportsmen