Tobias Schjølberg Grøndahl (born 22 January 2001) is a 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 for

GOG Håndbold GOG is a professional handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 9 times and the Danish Handball Cup a r ...

and the Norwegian national team. Grøndahl is renowned for his tactical understanding, and despite his young age he is often seen taking care of time-outs in GOG Håndbold instead of the head coach. He participated at the

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Career

Grøndahl started playing handball at

Haslum HK Haslum Håndballklubb or Haslum HK is a handball club from Haslum, Norway. They are the handball department of the multisports club Haslum Idrettslag. They currently compete in the Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a professional association fo ...

, where his father was a youth coach. Until he was 16 he was also playing

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until his football coach advised him to focus on handball. He debuted for the senior teamed in the 2017/2018 season with a single game. The following season, he became a part of the rotation, playing 19 matches. In 2019 he switched to Norwegian champions

Elverum Håndball Elverum Håndball is a Norwegian professional handball club from Elverum Municipality, Norway. Currently, Elverum Håndball competes in the Norwegian Premier League Men's Handball, and they have been successful title winners for several years ...

. Here he won the Norwegian championship in 2020, 2021 and 2022. In the 2021/2022 season he was the top scorer in the

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with 81 goals. In 2024 he switched to Danish side

. At GOG he was one of the most important players on the team, when they finished 3rd in the Danish League. After a season he was sold to German Füchse Berlin. GOG had initially rejected a transfer bid, before accepting a bid, that the club called 'financially irresponsible to reject'.

Individual awards

* EHF Champions League All-Star Team as Best Young Player:

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Personal life

Is in a relationship with fellow handballer Lív Sveinbjørnsdóttir Poulsen. His father was also a handball player for

and

References

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Tobias Schjoelberg Groendahl
at the

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Tobias Grøndahl
at the

Norwegian Handball Federation The Norwegian Handball Federation (, NHF) is the national handball association in Norway. The Norwegian Handball Federation was founded in 1937, and is a member of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) ...

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grondahl, Tobias 2001 births Living people Norwegian male handball players 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen Handball players from Bærum Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Norway Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark GOG players