Frida Nåmo Rønning (born 3 February 1997) is a Norwegian

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player who last played for

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Handball career

Frida Nåmo Rønning started playing handball at the age of six in her native town with

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. A few days after her 16th birthday, she signed a contract with the women's team playing in Norway's top division of Oppsal IF. After Rønning suffered a

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injury in August 2015, she had to stop playing for a time. Rønning later won a gold medal in 2017 with Oppsal's junior team. In the match playing for that gold medal against

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she scored four goals. After another lengthy break from playing due to injury, she returned to Oppsal's top-flight squad for the 2018/19 season. In the summer of 2021, she joined

. Rønning played 26

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for the Norwegian youth national team and 15 caps for the Norwegian junior national team. With these national teams she took part in the

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in Macedonia and the 2015 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship in Spain.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ronning, Frida Namo Norwegian female handball players 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen 1997 births Living people Handball players from Oslo Norwegian expatriate handball players in Germany