Kari Aalvik Grimsbø (born 4 January 1985) 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 ...

player who last played for

Győri ETO KC Győri ETO KC (, lit. Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr Handball Club) is a Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball club from Győr. Since they are sponsored by Audi, the official name for the team is Győri Audi ETO KC. On dome ...

and the Norwegian national team. Since her retirement she is the goalkeeping coach at

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 ...

Career

Aalvik Grimsbø played her first match for the senior national team in September 2005 against Portugal. Previously she had played for Norway in the junior European and World Championships. Before she joined Byåsen, she played for the clubs Orkdal and Børsa/Skaun. She joined to Győri ETO in January 2015, she signed a contract for 2 and a half years. As she stated about the contract: "It is a great opportunity for me, and when such an opportunity arises, it is hard to say no. It’s a dream coming true." In November 2016 she extended her contract with 3 more years. "There is a great team in Győr at the moment, I'm glad, that I can play here for at least three more years. It is really important for me, that I can play at the highest level with Győri ETO and I can prepare for the 2020 Olympic Games." In 2018 she announced her temporary retirement from the Norwegian national team. For the qualification games to the

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, her return to the national team was announced on Feb 28, 2020. On 30 April 2020, she announced her retirement.
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Achievements

* Summer Olympic Games, Olympic Games: **''Winner'': 2008, 2012 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2016 *

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: **''Winner'': 2011, 2015 **''Silver Medalist'': 2007, 2017 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2009 *

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'': 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016 *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Winner'': 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Silver Medalist'': 2016 *

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

**''Winner'': 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

**''Winner'': 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019

Individual awards

*All-Star Goalkeeper of the Summer Olympics: 2012 and 2016 * All-Star Team Best Goalkeeper of the

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

* MVP of the EHF Champions League Final Four:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Personal

She is married. She gave birth to her son, Sindre in June 2013.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimsbo, Kari Aalvik Norwegian female handball players 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Handball players from Bergen People from Sør-Trøndelag Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway 1985 births Living people Olympic medalists in handball Norwegian handball coaches Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark Norwegian expatriate handball players in Hungary Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Győri Audi ETO KC players Team Esbjerg players