Amanda Kurtović (born 25 July 1991) 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 who plays right back for

Larvik HK Larvik Håndballklubb, is a professional women's handball club from Larvik, Norway. The club has won 36 titles total in both the Eliteserien (women's handball), Norwegian League and the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup, Norwegian Cup, and won the ...

and formerly the Norwegian national team.Amanda Kurtović
. nbcolympics.com She has won medals at Olympic, World and European level.

Career

Club career

Playing for

, Kurtović won the Norwegian league and the

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in 2011, as well as winning the

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, and also won the Norwegian league in 2012. From 2012 to 2014 she played for the Danish club

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg, Denmark, Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and Euro ...

, and won the

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with Viborg in 2014. She played for the club Oppsal Håndball from 2014 to 2015, and again for Larvik HK from 2015 to 2017, when Larvik won the Norwegian cup in 2015, both the cup and the league in 2016, and the league in 2017.

International career

Playing for the Norwegian national team, Kurtović became World champion in 2011, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2015, and European champion in 2016. In 2016 she also won Olympic bronze medal with the Norwegian team. At the

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in Germany she won a silver medal with the Norwegian team. Right before the European Championship, in November 2018, Kurtović raptured her ACL. After that she has only made three appearances, in 2020, for the national team, and since has not been called back.

Achievements

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: **''Winner'': 2012 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2016 *

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: **''Winner'': 2011, 2015 **''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'': 2016 *

: **''Winner'': 2011 **''Bronze Medalist'':

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**''Winner'': 2014 * Junior European Championship: **''Winner'': 2009 * REMA 1000-ligaen: **''Bronze'': 2024/2025

Individual awards

* All-Star Team Right Wing of the Junior European Championship: 2009 * All-Star Right Back of Grundigligaen: 2016/2017 * Most Valuable Player of Grundigligaen: 2016/2017 *

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Best Right Back of the Romanian Liga Națională:

Personal life

She was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Croatian father, the handball coach and former player Marinko Kurtović. Her brother

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is a professional footballer who represented Sweden internationally on youth level. Her family moved to

Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...

, Norway, when she was six because her father signed a contract with the local club. In July 2023, Kurtović announced her first pregnancy with former hockey player Brede Csiszar.

References

External links

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