Gro Hammerseng

Status: National June 24, 2013

Gro hammer Seng Edin ( born April 10, 1980 in Gjøvik, born Gro hammer Seng ) is a Norwegian handball player. She plays in the backcourt, where it is used primarily on the position back center of the room. She was elected to the world handball player of the year 2007.

Career

In the club

Hammer Seng Edin began at the age of ten years, the handball matches in Gjøvik. Initially they played at Gjøvik HK, Raufoss IL and Vardal IF. From the 1997/98 season, she was active with Gjøvik og HK Vardal in the highest Norwegian league. In the season 2002/ 03 the backcourt player scored 139 goals in 24 games, which she finished in seventh place in the scoresheet.

In 2003, Hammer Seng Edin signed a contract with the Danish first division club Ikast - bording Elite Håndbold ( since late 2008 FC Midtjylland Håndbold ). With Ikast it was in the first season, Vice Cup Winners' Cup and finished third in the Danish league. In addition Ikast won in the same season the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the second final match against Hypo Niederösterreich Austria she wore with eight goals crucial to the success of their team. In 2005 she was voted the best playmaker of the Danish league. In 2008, she reached the final of Ikast the Danish Championship, failed there but at Viborg HK.

In summer 2010, Hammer Seng Edin moved to Norwegian club Larvik HK. After Hammer Seng Edin in their first season with Larvik won the championship, she paused pregnancy requires the following season. Only in the 2012/13 season she returned to the squad of Larvik. They won the championship again in 2013 and was also in the final of the Champions League.

In the National Team

Gro hammer Seng Edin ran to a total of fifteen times for the Norwegian national youth team and eleven times for the junior selection. In the European Junior Championships in 1997, she took second place with Norway.

Hammer Seng Edin gave on 29 November 2000 her debut in the Norwegian national team. In the same year she won with Norway in sixth place at the European Championship in Romania. In the next two tournaments, the 2001 World Championships and the European Championships, she won the runner-up respectively. Before the World Cup in 2003, finished sixth in Norway, she assumed the office of Mannschaftskapitänin.

At the European Championships 2004, the Norwegian won her first title with the national team. In addition, she was named the MVP of this EM. A year later, Hammer Seng could not attend the World Cup teilnehmen.Nach her ​​injury, she returned in August 2006, returned to the national team due to a cruciate ligament injury. Only a few months later, her at the European Championships in 2006 to defend the European title and the MVP title.

Hammer Seng Edin pulled at the 2007 World Championships with the Norwegian selection in the finals, but was defeated there against Russia. Hammer Seng Edin took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. In the final, Norway scored again to Russia, but this time the Scandinavians won the gold medal. The next big tournament on the hammer Seng Edin took part, was the 2010 European Championships, which could in turn win the North Europeans. After this tournament hammer Seng Edin played a single international game more. In March 2013, it officially ended her international career.

Achievements

  • Vice World Champion 2001 and 2007
  • European Champion 2004, 2006 and 2010
  • Vice - European Champion 2002
  • Vice - European Champion ( juniors) 1997
  • Series Mester 2011, 2013, 2014, Larvik HK
  • Sluttspillvinner 2011, 2013, Larvik HK
  • EHF Champions League 2011 with Larvik HK
  • Danish Vice - Champion 2008 Ikast - bording Elite Håndbold
  • Danish Vice - Cup winner in 2004 with Ikast - bording Elite Håndbold
  • European Cup Winners' Cup in 2004 Ikast - bording Elite Håndbold
  • Olympic Champion 2008

Awards

  • World handball: 2007
  • Årets forbilde: 2007
  • Årets lagspiller: 2007, 2011
  • Bedste playmaker of the Danish League: 2005
  • MVP: 2004 (EM ), 2006 ( EM)
  • Best playmaker: 2006 (EM ), 2007 ( World Cup ), 2010 ( EM)

Private

Gro has two brothers, Lars and Morten. Lars plays for Lillehammer Ice Hockey Club and Morten is the lead singer of the band baby lotion. She also has a younger sister. Gro lived until 2010 open with their Norwegian teammate Katja Nyberg in a relationship. Since October 2010, Anja Hammer Seng Edin is her new companion. Her pregnancy was announced in August 2011. In February 2012, she brought forth a son. In August 2013 the couple married.

The end of 2012 gave it known that she will write with her partner Anja Edin a book.

Norway women's national handball team IHF World Player of the Year 2000 European Women's Handball Championship 2001 World Women's Handball Championship 2002 European Women's Handball Championship 2003 World Women's Handball Championship 2004 European Women's Handball Championship Most Valuable Player 2005 World Women's Handball Championship 2006 European Women's Handball Championship 2007 World Women's Handball Championship Russia women's national handball team 2010 European Women's Handball Championship Same-sex marriage Anja Andersen Ausra Fridrikas Cecilie Leganger Nadine Krause Cristina Neagu Magnus Wislander Jackson Richardson Daniel Stephan Bertrand Gille (handballer) Henning Fritz Mikkel Hansen Daniel Narcisse Domagoj Duvnjak
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