Kjetil Strand
Status: National November 9, 2013
Kjetil Øvrelid beach ( born October 2, 1979 in Stavanger, Norway) is a Norwegian handball player. He is 1.88 m tall and weighs 93 kg.
Beach playing for Stavanger Håndball ( back number 5) and for the Norwegian men's national handball team ( back number 6) runs can be used in the backcourt versatile.
Career
Kjetil beach was awarded his first professional contract in Stavanger Håndball. There he accomplished in the 2002/03 season his breakthrough: He was elected with 281 goals in 25 games leading scorer ( Norwegian record ) and Norway's " handball player of the year". In the summer of 2003, already the TBV Lemgo at the beach, but this failed because of the high redemption requests Stavanger tried. Only after the bankruptcy filing of his club in the winter moved Kjetil beach in December in the German handball league; but not to Lemgo, but for SG Flensburg- Handewitt where already his compatriots Johnny Jensen and Christian Berge played. But just to his idol mountains beach was not over, so he disappointed to Denmark moved to Bjerringbro - Silkeborg despite the gain of the German championship after only six months. There he remained largely unsuccessful, so he went to league rivals AaB Håndbold 2006. 2007 now he decided to return to Germany and to hire the climber foxes Berlin. In early 2010 it was announced that Kjetil will not extend his contract with the foxes. Then he joined Stavanger Håndball.
Kjetil beach has 102 caps for the Norwegian men's national handball team contest, with the 7th place in Tunisia represents his greatest international success at the World Handball Championship for Men 2005. With Norway, he also took part in the Men's Handball World Championship for Men in Germany in 2007, where he was voted in the match against Angola man of the match; but in the end he finished with Norway, only a disappointing 13th place. In the European Handball Championship in 2006 he set up another Norwegian record when he threw 19 goals in the main group match against Iceland.