Isabel Blanco (born 10 May 1979 in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

) is a

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handball player of Galician descent.

Club career

Blanco has previously played for the clubs Kjøkkelvik, Vadmyra, Nordnes,

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, Club El Ferrobus Mislata, Aalborg DH,

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Larvik HK Larvik Håndballklubb, is a women's handball club from Larvik, Norway. History Larvik HK was founded in 1990 as a merger of the handball departments in the two clubs Larvik Turn and Halsen. They played in the top division since 1992/93. During ...

and

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. She earned a

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in the 2005 and 2008 Danish championships, and a bronze medal in 2006, when she was voted ''Pivot of the Year'' in the Danish league.

National team

She won a gold medal at the

2004 European Women's Handball Championship The 2004 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in Hungary from 9–19 December, it was won by Norway after beating Denmark 27–25 in the final match. Venues The 2004 European Championship was held in the following cities: *Debrecen ...

with the Norwegian national team"6th European Handball Championships – Hungary 2004 – Team Norway"
(Retrieved on February 25, 2008) and again at the

2008 European Women's Handball Championship The 2008 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in the Republic of Macedonia from 2–14 December, it was won by Norway women's national handball team, Norway after beating Spain women's national handball team, Spain 34–21 in the ...

Personal life

Blanco was born in

. Her father is Fernando Blanco Jiménez, a

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- Galician and former

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football player. She has not lived in Spain except for the one year at Club El Ferrobus Mislata. Blanco is an avid painter and photographer, and has stated on numerous occasions that she would like to pursue them as a career when she is done with handball. Blanco has her own website where she sells her paintings.

References

External links

* 1979 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate handball players Sportspeople from Bergen Norwegian people of Spanish descent {{Norway-handball-bio-stub