Kari Mette Johansen
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 Kari Mette Johansen during the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 January 1979 Fredrikstad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998–2014 | Larvik HK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2012 | Norway | 203 | (493) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kari Mette Johansen (born 11th January 1979) is a Norwegian team handball player, a two time Olympic champion, once a world champion and four times European champion. She was voted into the All star team at the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship, where she won gold medal with the Norwegian National Team.
Career
[edit]Born in Fredrikstad on 11 January 1979,[1] Kari Mette Johansen played for the Norwegian club Larvik HK.[2] She made her debut on the national team in 2004, where she played 203 matches and scored 493 goals.[3] She is now retired.
She won Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012.[2]
She was awarded the trophy Håndballstatuetten from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 2018.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bryhn, Rolf. "Kari Mette Johansen". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kari Mette Johansen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Landskampstatistikk. Totaloversikt for Johansen, Kari Mette" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
External links
[edit]- Kari Mette Johansen at the European Handball Federation
- Kari Mette Johansen at the Norwegian Handball Federation (in Norwegian)
- Kari Mette Johansen at Olympics.com
- Kari Mette Johansen at Olympedia
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Norwegian female handball players
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for Norway
- Olympic gold medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Fredrikstad
- 21st-century Norwegian women
- 21st-century Norwegian people
- Norwegian handball biography stubs