Elisabeth Hilmo
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox3colsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Elisabeth Hilmo (born 29 November 1976) is a Norwegian team handball player and World Champion. She was primarily known as a defensively strong player. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1]
Career
Club career
Hilmo started playing handball aged 7 at her hometown club Selbu IL.[2] With them she eventually played in the top division in Norway. After the team was relegated, she joined Byåsen IL.[2] A year later she returned to Selbu, after they had returned to the top division.[2]
In 2004 she joined Larvik HK,[2] where she won the Norwegian championship three times in a row from 2005 to 2007.
Due to pregnancy she retired in December 2007.[3]
National team
She made her debut for the Norwegian national team on 25 September 1998 against Russia.[2][4] Her first major international tournament was the 1998 European Championship, where Norway won gold medals.[2] This was the first time Norway won the tournament.[5]
A year later she won gold medals at the 1999 World Championship.[4]
Awards and recognitions
Hilmo was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 2010.[6]
Private
Her grandmother, Marit, and both of her siblings, Marita and Arnfinn are also handball players.[2] She is educated as a Data engineer.[4]
References
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- ↑ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Template:Webarchive databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 3, 2008)
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External links
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Norwegian female handball players
- Olympic handball players for Norway
- Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Handball players from Trondheim
- 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen