Ingrid Ødegård (born 1 March 1983, in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

) is a former 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 ...

goalkeeper, who last played for

Byåsen HE Byåsen Håndball Elite is the women's handball team of the Norwegian multi-sports club Byåsen IL based in Trondheim. The team plays in REMA 1000-ligaen, the top division in the country, since its promotion in 1982. The team's first success c ...

Club career

Ingrid Ødegård started her professional career in

Sola HK Sola HK (short: Sola Håndball) is a handball club from Sola, Rogaland, Norway. The women's team currently competes in REMA 1000-ligaen. Results Norway * REMA 1000-ligaen **''Silver:'' 2024/25 **''Bronze:'' 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 *No ...

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. After three seasons with the club, she received an offer from

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 started playing for the Norwegian champion in 2005. With Larvik, she won the Norwegian Championship several times and the

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in 2008. However, being the substitute of Lene Rantala, Ødegård could not enjoy much playing time. In 2008, she left Larvik and moved to

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to play for FCM Håndbold and in 2012 went on to play for HC Odense. After returning to the Norwegian league in 2014, and playing for

, Ødegård announced in late December 2015 that she is pregnant yet again and has decided to retire.

National team

Handball

Ingrid Ødegård made her debut on the national team at junior level in 2002. In 2003, she won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championship, together with Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth, Linn Jørum Sulland and

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among others. Ødegård debuted with the senior national team in June 2010 against Denmark, and played 11 matches for the senior Norwegian national team in total.

Beach handball

Ødegård received a bronze medal at the 2007 European Beach Handball Championship, where she was named Best Goalkeeper. In 2009, she was part of the team that won a silver medal at the European Championship in

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. She received her first gold medal at the 2010 World Championship in

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References

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