Silje Solberg-Østhassel (born 16 June 1990) is a Norwegian professional

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 is currently without a club following the

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of her former club, Vipers Kristiansand. She also plays for the Norwegian national team. She is a twin sister of Sanna Solberg-Isaksen and is half Swedish through her mother.

Career

Solberg-Østhassel started playing handball at Helset IF, and later signed for

Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west. It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the ...

in the highest Norwegian league, where she played with her sister, Sanna Solberg. In 2011, she reached the final of the Norwegian cup with the club, where they lost to

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 ...

. In 2014, she joined Danish side

Team Tvis Holstebro TTH Holstebro is a men's handball club from Holstebro, Denmark. The team is playing in the Danish Primo Tours Ligaen and play their home matches in Gråkjær Arena. History The club was founded on 1 May 2000, when Holstebro Håndbold 90 ...

. Here she won the

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

in 2015. In the summer of 2016, she joined French team

Issy-Paris Hand Paris 92 is a French professional handball club from Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris. This team currently competes in the LFH Division 1 Féminine, French Women's Handball First League from 2010. The club was previously named Issy-les-Moulineaux Han ...

. Two years after she joined Hungarian side

Siófok KC Siófok Kézilabda Club is a former Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball team from Siófok, that currently play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II (women's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság II. They have competed in lower divisions until 2006, wh ...

. In 2020, she joined league rivals

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 ...

. Here she won the 2021 Hungarian Cup, the 2022 and 2023 Hungarian league and the 2024

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 ...

. In 2023, she took a break from handball due to

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leave. In 2024, she returned to Norway to join Vipers Kristiansand. She left the club again only later the same season, when the club went bankrupt. She debuted for the Norwegian national team on March 27, 2011 in a match against Russia.

Achievements

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: **''Winner:'' 2024 **''Bronze:'' 2020 *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Winner'': 2015, 2021 **''Silver Medalist'': 2017, 2023 *

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'': 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024 **''Silver Medalist'': 2012 * Junior World Championship: **''Winner'': 2010 * Junior European Championship: **''Winner'': 2009 *

: **''Winner'':

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

**''Silver Medalist'':

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

**''Bronze Medalist'':

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

**''Winner:''

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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 ...

'' * Hungarian Championship **''Winner'':

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'': 2021 *

Norwegian Cup The Norwegian Football Cup () is the main knockout cup competition in Norwegian football. It is run by the Football Association of Norway and has been contested since 1902, making it the oldest football tournament in the country. The tournament ...

: **''Finalist'': 2011, 2012

Individual awards

*All-Star Goalkeeper of Danish League 2015/2016 *All-Star Goalkeeper of the

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*All-Star Goalkeeper of

Postenligaen REMA 1000-ligaen (Eliteserien i håndball for menn) is the premier men's professional handball league for Norwegian handball clubs. It is administered by the Norwegian Handball Federation, and the winners are recognized as Norwegian champions. It ...

2013/2014 *MVP of the

Møbelringen Cup The Posten Cup, formerly known as the Møbelringen Cup and Intersport Cup, is an annual women's handball tournament arranged by the Norwegian Handball Federation. Norway plus three invited national teams compete for the title, normally in a single ...

: 2018

Personal life

In February 2023, she announced that she was expecting her first child with her husband, Lars. In August, she gave birth to her daughter, Emma.

References

External links

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Silje Solberg-Østhassel
at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Solberg, Silje 1990 births Living people Handball players from Bærum Norwegian people of Swedish descent Norwegian twins Identical twin females Norwegian female handball players TTH Holstebro players Siófok KC players Győri Audi ETO KC players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic handball players for Norway Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark Norwegian expatriate handball players in France Norwegian expatriate handball players in Hungary Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen