Emilie Christensen (born 13 April 1993) is a Norwegian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for Norwegian

Glassverket IF Glassverket IF is a soccer and handball club from Drammen, Norway. The club is most famous for their handball team, which currently compete in the second tier of Norwegian handball, the 1. divisjon. The club also facilitates skiing and used to pl ...

. She was on the Norwegian team that won silver medals at the

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Career

Christensen started her career at Fana IL in the Norwegian 1st division (second tier). In 2013 she joined first league team

, where she shared playing time with

Nina Heglund Nina Heglund (born 24 July 1993) is a Norwegian-British handball player. She plays for the British national team, and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Aged 19 at the start of the games, she was the youngest player in the squad. H ...

and

Tiril Merg Tiril Gunther Merg (born 2 September 1993) is a Norwegian handball player for Larvik HK Larvik Håndballklubb, is a professional women's handball club from Larvik, Norway. The club has won 36 titles total in both the Eliteserien (women's h ...

. In 2017 she joined league rivals

Larvik HK Larvik Håndballklubb, is a professional women's handball club from Larvik, Norway. The club has won 36 titles total in both the Eliteserien (women's handball), Norwegian League and the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup, Norwegian Cup, and won the ...

. In 2019 she joined Hungarian

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. Afterwards she joined Molde for a single season, before returning to Glassverket. Here she has since become the player-assistant manager. Christensen represented Norway in the 2011 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 12th. On November 23th she debuted for the Norwegian senior national team.

Achievements

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Silver Medalist'': 2017 * Norwegian League: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2015/2016, 2016/2017 **''Silver Medalist'': 2014/2015 *Norwegian Cup: **''Silver Medalist'': 2016 * World Youth Championship: **''Silver Medalist'':

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Individual awards

* All-Star Line Centre Back of Grundigligaen: 2016/2017

References

Norwegian female handball players 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen 1993 births Living people People from Os, Hordaland Sportspeople from Vestland Ferencvárosi TC players (women's handball) Norwegian expatriate handball players in Hungary {{Norway-handball-bio-stub