Kari Aalvik Grimsbø

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Kari Aalvik Grimsbø
Kari Aalvik Grimsbø
Player information
birthday 4th January 1985
place of birth Bergen, Norway
citizenship NorwegianNorwegian Norwegian
height 1.80 m
Playing position goalkeeper
Club information
society Győri ETO KC
Jersey number 85
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-0000 NorwayNorway Børsa / Skaun
0000-0000 NorwayNorway Orkdal
0000-2010 NorwayNorway Byåsen IL
2010-2015 DenmarkDenmark Team Esbjerg
2015-2020 HungaryHungary Győri ETO KC
National team
Debut on September 28, 2005
against PortugalPortugal Portugal
  Games (goals)
NorwayNorway Norway 173 (1)

Status: July 12, 2020

Kari Aalvik Grimsbø (born January 4, 1985 in Bergen , Norway ) is a former Norwegian handball player . She played at Győri ETO KC in the highest Hungarian league and in the Norwegian national handball team .

Career

Grimsbø started playing handball at Børsa / Skaun when he was five. After the goalkeeper was then active for Orkdal, she moved to Byåsen IL . With Byåsen she was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2007 , but failed there at the Romanian representative CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea . From summer 2010 she was under contract with the Danish first division team Esbjerg . From the beginning of November 2012, Grimsbø was on maternity leave. For the 2013/14 season she returned to the Esbjerg goal. In January 2015 she moved to the Hungarian club Győri ETO KC . With Győri she won the Hungarian Cup in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, the Hungarian Championship in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the EHF Champions League in 2017, 2018 and 2019 . She ended her career after the 2019/20 season. She then became a goalkeeping coach at Byåsen IL.

Grimsbø completed 173 games for the Norwegian selection. With the Norwegian team, she won the European Championship in 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2014 and 2016 . After the first game of the European Championship in 2014, she was injured. At the 2007 World Cup in France, she was runner-up. A year later she won the gold medal at the Olympic Games . She was part of the squad of her national association at the 2009 World Cup in China . She won the world title at the 2011 World Cup and 2015 World Cup. In the summer of 2012, Grimsbø again took part in the Olympic Games in London , where they again won the gold medal. She was also elected to the tournament's All-Star Team. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . A year later she won the silver medal at the World Cup in Germany .

Web links

Commons : Kari Aalvik Grimsbø  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Grimsbø, Kari Aalvik , accessed on July 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Håndballjentene - Dette er den norske håndballtroppen i OL
  3. ↑ Kari Aalvik Grimsbø på europamester ( Memento from June 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Olympic champion Grimsbø: baby break, EM waiver and contract extension
  5. ↑ Györ reacts to goalkeeper failure
  6. ↑ handball-world.news: Györ signs European Champion Glauser , accessed on December 28, 2019
  7. ↑ europamester.dk: Tidligere Team Esbjerg-keeper har fundet nyt job , accessed on July 12, 2020
  8. ↑ Norway exchanges in goal due to injury , accessed on December 22, 2014
  9. ↑ www.london2012.com: Kari Aalvik Grimsbø ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on July 30, 2012
  10. ↑ www.hbold.dk: Kvinderes All-Star hold ( memento of October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 13, 2012
  11. ↑ ihf.info: 23rd Women's World Championship 2017 , accessed on December 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Grimsbø, Kari Aalvik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian handball player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen (Norway)