Kari Aalvik Grimsbø

Status: National September 8, 2013

Kari Aalvik Grimsbø (born 4 January 1985 in Bergen, Norway ) is a Norwegian handball player. She plays with Team Esbjerg in the highest Danish league and in the Norwegian national handball team.

Grimsbø started playing handball with five years Børsa / Skaun. After the goalkeeper was then active for Orkdal, she moved to Byåsen IL. With Byåsen she was in the 2007 final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, failed there, however, the Romanian representative CS Râmnicu Vâlcea. Since the summer of 2010, she is the Danish first division club Team Esbjerg under contract. As of early November 2012, Grimsbø was in maternity leave. For the 2013/14 season she returned into the goal of Esbjerg.

Grimsbø completed so far 107 games for the Norwegian selection. Together with the Norwegian team won in 2006, 2008 and 2010 European Championship. At the World Cup in France in 2007, she was Vice World Champion. A year later she won at the Olympic Games gold medal. It belonged to the squad of their national federation in the 2009 World Cup in China. At the 2011 World Championships, she won the world title. In summer 2012 Grimsbø again took part in the Olympic Games in London, where she again won the gold medal. In addition, she was elected to the All- Star team of the tournament.