Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren (born 1 August 1984) is a retired Norwegian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic 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 throwing it into the g ...

player for the Norwegian national team, who last played for

Larvik HK Larvik Håndballklubb, is a women's handball club from Larvik, Norway. History Larvik HK was founded in 1990 as a merger of the handball departments in the two clubs Larvik Turn and Halsen. They played in the top division since 1992/93. During ...

. She is commonly known as Linka. Outside handball she is a qualified nurse.

Career

Club career

Riegelhuth started playing handball at her hometown club Ski. She later played for Holmlia and Furuset until

showed an interest for her. She was only 17 when she signed with Larvik for the 2002/03 season. Riegelhuth was top scorer in the Norwegian league in the 2005/06 season (shared first place with Linn Jørum Sulland, both 159 goals). In 2006/07 she was again top scorer (221 goals), and was voted ''Player of the year'' in the Norwegian league. She won the

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in 2008 with Larvik. She also participated on the Champions League 2008/09 and was top scorer of the competition until Larvik was eliminated. In January 2009, Riegelhuth signed a two-year contract with Danish club

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where she will start playing at the end of the 2008/09 season.

National team

She made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 2003, and has played 268 matches and scored 965 goals as of July 2015. She is five time European champion from 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2014. She was the top scorer in the 2008 European Championship and was also awarded a place in the all-star team as ''Best Right Wing''. She received a silver medal at the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship and a gold medal at the

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and at the

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Personal life

She's the older sister of fellow handball player, Betina Riegelhuth. On 25 June 2011, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth married Einar Sand Koren, and changed her name to Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren. In May 2015 she announced that she and her husband was expecting their first child, and had to take a break from handball. After giving birth 22 December 2015, Riegelhuth Koren was back playing for Larvik against Rælingen HK on 2 March 2016. In October 2017 she announced that she's expecting her second child, but she will come back on court again. Today she has three kids: Lotte, Pelle og Lasse together with Einar.

Team results

;Club * Champions League: Semi-finalist in 2003/04 (Larvik) * Cup Winners' Cup: Winner in 2004/05 and 2007/08 (Larvik) * Norwegian Championship: Winner in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (Larvik) * Norwegian Cup: Winner in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008; Runner-up in 2007 (Larvik) ;National team * European Championship: Gold in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2014; Silver in 2012 * World Championship: Silver in 2007; Gold in 2011 * Summer Olympics: Gold in 2008 and 2012; Bronze in 2016

Awards and recognition

* Player of the year of the Norwegian league in 2007 * Right wing on the All-Star Team and Top scorer of the 2008 European Championship * Right wing on the All-Star Team in the 2009 World Championship * Awarded

Tønsbergs Blad ''Tønsbergs Blad'' is a local newspaper published in Tønsberg, Norway. The newspaper was founded by printer Hans Jørgen Magnus Hansen on 3 August 1870, with an initial circulation of 210 copies. By the turn of the century the circulation had gr ...

's yearly price, ''Kristinastatuetten'', in 2008 * Voted female World Handball Player of the Year 2008 by a jury of experts from the IHF * All-Star Team Best Right Wing of the

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riegelhuth Koren, Linn-Kristin 1984 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players of Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Ski, Norway Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Expatriate handball players Sportspeople from Viken (county)