Brit Sandaune (born 5 June 1972) is a Norwegian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

and pre-school teacher. She is originally from the rural area of Skatval in Stjørdal Municipality in

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

county. She was educated in

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and

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. Brit settled in

Trondheim Municipality Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populou ...

with her cohabitant Roy Nilsen.

Football

Brit Sandaune has (per 2001) won six league championships and seven Norwegian national championship (with Trondheims-Ørn SK) in women's soccer. She is an Olympic Gold and Bronze medallist. Sandaune played 120 international matches for Norway, scoring nine goals. With the Norway team she went to the Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, winning Bronze. Four years later at the Sydney Olympics she won Gold with the Norwegian team. In July 2002 Brit reached 100 matches played for the A-team. She got the Fair Play prize in woman soccer in 2000. At club level Sandaune played a record 507 matches for Trondheims-Ørn, winning the Norwegian cup competition eight times and the

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in ...

league seven times between 1993 and 2003.

External links

Profile on Tronheim-Ørn
Norwegian women's footballers 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen 1972 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Norway FIFA Women's Century Club Olympic medalists in football Toppserien players SK Trondheims-Ørn players Norway women's international footballers Women's association football players not categorized by position 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-stub