Hege Kirsti Frøseth (born 20 December 1969) is a Norwegian retired

team 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 Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...

goalkeeper. She received a silver medal at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

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with the Norwegian national team."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008) She also played for the club

Byåsen IL Byåsen Idrettslag is a multi-sport club from Trondheim, Norway. It has sections for association football (one for elite, one for women's and one for grassroots football), athletics, handball (one for elite and one for grassroots handball), orient ...

. Frøseth is married to former

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Stig Inge Bjørnebye Stig Inge Bjørnebye (born 11 December 1969) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played in Norway, England, and Denmark, most notably for Liverpool, and is currently the sports director of the Danish football club AGF Aarhus. His ...

, with whom she has three children.

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* 1969 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Olympic silver medalists for Norway Olympic handball players for Norway Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players from Trondheim Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-handball-bio-stub