Marit Malm Frafjord
| Marit Malm Frafjord | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Frafjord in 2011 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
25 November 1985 Tromsø, Norway | ||
| Nationality | Norwegian | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Pivot | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2001–2002 | Rapp SK | ||
2002–2010 | Byåsen HE | ||
2010–2014 | Viborg HK | ||
2014–2017 | Larvik HK | ||
2017–2018 | CSM București | ||
2018–2022 | Team Esbjerg | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2021 | Norway | 223 | (424) |
Marit Malm Frafjord (born 25 November 1985) is a former Norwegian handball player[1][2] who was part of the Norwegian team that won gold medals at both the 2011 World Championship and the 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics.
Career
[edit]Byåsen
[edit]Frafjord started playing handball at Rapp. At 16, she joined Byåsen HE. Originally, she played as a back but retrained as a pivot at Byåsen.[3]
With Byåsen, she reached the final of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2007, but lost to Romanian CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea.
Viborg HK
[edit]In 2010, she joined Danish side Viborg HK. Here, she won the 2014 EHF Cup Winners' Cup, beating Russian Zvezda Zvenigorod in the final.[4] Same season, she also won the Danish Championship.
Larvik HK
[edit]The following summer, she returned to Norway and joined Larvik HK.[5] Here, she won the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Norwegian championships.
CSM Bucharest
[edit]In 2017, she joined Romanian CSM București.[6] Here, she won the 2018 Romanian championship and Cup. After the 2017-18 season, she retired.[7]
Team Esbjerg
[edit]In December 2018, she did however unretire to join Danish side Team Esbjerg.[8] With Esbjerg, she won the 2019 and 2020 Danish championships and the 2021 Danish cup. In the 2021-22 season, she ultimately retired and became part of the Team Esbjerg management.[9][10]
National team
[edit]With the Norwegian national team, she won the European Women's Handball Championship 5 times; in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, and in 2020.
At the 2007 World Championship, she won silver medals. A year later she won gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2009 World Championship, she won bronze medals.
At the 2011 World Championship, she won gold medals, and a year later, she defended her olympic title, when Norway won the gold at the 2012 Olympics.[11]
She also represented Norway at the 2016 Olympics and the 2021 Olympics. At the latter tournament, she won bronze medals.
Post playing career
[edit]At the 2024 Olympics, she acted as a handball expert for Warner Bros. Discovery.[12]
Achievements
[edit]- Champions League:
- Bronze Medalist: 2015, 2018
- Cup Winners' Cup:
- Winner: 2014
- Finalist: 2007, 2012
- Summer Olympics:
- Winner: 2008, 2012
- Bronze Medalist: 2016, 2020
- World Championship:
- Winner: 2011
- Silver Medalist: 2007
- Bronze Medalist: 2009
- European Championship:
- Winner: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2020
- Silver Medalist: 2012
- EHF Cup:
- Finalist: 2019
- Norwegian Championship:
- Winner: 2014/2015, 2015/2016
- Norwegian Cup:
- Winner: 2007, 2014, 2015
- Finalist: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
- Danish Championship
- Danish Cup
- Winner: 2021
Individual awards
[edit]- All-Star Team Best Line Player of the EHF Champions League: 2017
- 2020-21 Danish League all star team[13]
References
[edit]- ^ EHF profile
- ^ "Spillere" (in Norwegian). Larvik HK official website. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
- ^ www.nrk.no: Marit Malm Frafjord
- ^ "Trods flyproblemer: Viborg triumferer i Cup Winners' Cup". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2025 – via Ritzau.
- ^ "Larvik henter Viborg-streg" (in Danish). hbold.dk. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014.
- ^ "CSM Bukarest rüstet doppelt auf" (in German). handball-world.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Puțină consolare: CSM București se adună, găsește ritmul în atac, trece de Rostov și termină pe locul trei acest FINAL4" (in Romanian). lead.ro. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Norsk profil genoptager håndboldkarrieren i dansk topklub". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 25 December 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "Marit Malm Frafjord nåede næsten alt – nu er det snart slut" (in Danish). Team Esbjerg. 20 November 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Marit Frafjord er tilbage i Team Esbjerg – nu i ny rolle" (in Danish). Team Esbjerg. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- ^ "Marit Malm Frafjord". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Marit Malm Frafjord blir håndballekspert for Warner Bros. Discovery" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ "Kvindeligaen - All-Star". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Divisionsforeningen. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
External links
[edit]
Media related to Marit Malm Frafjord at Wikimedia Commons
- Marit Malm Frafjord at the International Handball Federation (archive)
- Marit Malm Frafjord at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Marit Malm Frafjord at the Norwegian Handball Federation (in Norwegian)
- Marit Malm Frafjord at Olympics.com
- Marit Malm Frafjord at Olympedia
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Norwegian women's handball players
- 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for 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
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Trondheim
- Viborg HK players
- Team Esbjerg players
- Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark
- Norwegian expatriate handball players in Romania