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Vilde Ingstad

Vilde Mortensen Ingstad (born 18 December 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for CSM București and the Norwegian national team.[2]

Career

Ingstad started playing handball in 2002 at Nordstrand IF, where she made her senior debut in 2010. In 2014 she joined Oppsal IF.[3] In 2016 she joined Danish side Team Esbjerg.[4] Here she won the 2019, 2020 and 2023 Danish Championships and the 2017,[5] 2021 and 2022 Danish Cup. In 2017 she extended her contract at the club until 2020.[5]In 2018 she was named player of the year in Denmark.[6]

In 2023 she joined Romanian top club CSM București.[7] Here she won the 2024 Romanian championship and cup.

She has signed a deal to join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC for the 2025-26 season.[8]

National team

Ingstad played 26 games for the Norwegian U19 team and 34 games for the U20 teams.[1]

She also represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th,[9] and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.[10]

Senior national team

She made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 2014.[11]

With the Norwegian team she won the 2015 World Championship, which was her first major international tournament.[12] A year later she won gold medals at the 2016 European Championship.[5] At the 2017 World Championship she won silver medals, losing to France in the final.[13]

At the 2021 World Championship she won her second World Championship. Two years later she won silver medals at the 2023 World Championship, once again losing to France in the final.[14] At the 2022 European Championship she won her second European Championship.

At the 2024 Olympics she won gold medals with the Norwegian team.[15] In the preliminary round she had a cruciate ligament tear, which meant she couldn't play the rest of the tournament.[16]

Personal life

Ingstad is born to a Norwegian mother and Danish father.[12]

Achievements

Individual awards

References

  1. ^ a b handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Ingstad, Vilde Mortensen, retrieved 10 August 2024
  2. ^ EHF profile
  3. ^ "Landslagsspiller fra NIF til Oppsal" (in Norwegian). nettavisen.no. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Norsk stregtalent skifter til Team Esbjerg". Teamesbjerg.no. Team Esbjerg. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Norsk verdensmester forlænger med Team Esbjerg" (in Danish). Fyens Stiftstidende. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2025 – via Ritzau.
  6. ^ "Årets Kvindelige Håndboldspiller" (in Danish). tophaandbold.dk. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  7. ^ "CSM Bukarest mit vier Personalentscheidungen" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Norvég és dán klasszissal erősödik kézilabdacsapatunk" (in Hungarian). fradi.hu. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  9. ^ "2013 Women's European Championship 19 – Final Tournament". EHF. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  10. ^ "IV Women's Youth World Championship in MNE" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  11. ^ "VM-troppen". Handball.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  12. ^ a b Jacobsen, Arild (10 November 2015). "Sjokkert Ingstad klar for VM" (in Norwegian). Nordstrands Blad. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  13. ^ "Norge tapte finalen" (in Norwegian). ba.no. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Frankrike verdensmester - sølv til Håndballjentene" (in Norwegian). handball.no. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  15. ^ "OL-gull til Håndballjentene!" (in Norwegian). handball.no. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Kreuzbandriss bedeutet Olympia-Aus für Norwegerin" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Årets Hold i grundspillet kåret – Polman topper". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Stort skulderklap: Vilde Ingstad - årets kvindelige håndboldspiller". Jydske Vestkysten (in Danish). Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  19. ^ "Golden players make the team of the season". EHF. Retrieved 26 June 2023.