Kjetil Øvrelid Strand (born 2 October 1979) is a Norwegian handball player. Strand played for Bjerringbro Silkeborg in

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before the 2006 European Championship. Afterwards he signed a contract with Aab Håndbold. On 2 February 2006 he scored 19 goals, a Norwegian record, in a Main Group Stage game against

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in the European Championship. Strand also holds the record for number of goals scored in a single season in the Norwegian league: 281. He set the record while playing for

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in 2002/2003 season. In 2003 he was awarded ''Player of the year'' in Norwegian handball.

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* Norwegian male handball players 1979 births Living people Aalborg Håndbold players {{Norway-handball-bio-stub