Jana Mittún (born 24 November 2003) is a Faroese

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 for

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 the Faroese national team. She participated with the Faroese national team at the

2024 European Women's Handball Championship The 2024 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland from 28 November to 15 December 2024. This was the first tournament to feature 24 teams. Norway were the two time defending champions and defended their t ...

in Hungary, Switzerland and Austria, placing 17th overall.

Personal life

Mittún is the cousin of handball playing brothers

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and Rói Ellefsen á Skipagøtu. Her older brother

Pauli Mittún Pauli is a surname and also a Finnish masculine given name (a variant of Paul) and may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Surname * Andrea Pauli (born 1977), German developmental biologist and biochemist * Arthur Pauli (born 1989), Austrian ski jumper * ...

and younger brother

Óli Mittún Óli Mittún (born 10 June 2005) is a Faroese handball player for GOG Håndbold 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. H ...

are also handball players.

References

2003 births Living people Faroese female handball players Handball players from Copenhagen 21st-century Danish sportswomen Viborg HK players {{Europe-handball-bio-stub