Marit Malm Frafjord (born 25 November 1985) is a former Norwegian

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player who was part of the Norwegian team that won gold medals at both the 2011 World Championship and the

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Career

Byåsen

Frafjord started playing handball at Rapp. At 16, she joined

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. Originally, she played as a back but was reschooled as a pivot at Byåsen.www.nrk.no: Marit Malm Frafjord
/ref> With Byåsen, she reached the final of the

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in 2007, but lost to Romanian

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Viborg HK

In 2010, she joined Danish side

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. Here, she won the 2014

, beating Russian

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in the final. Same season, she also won the Danish Championship.

Larvik HK

The following summer, she returned to Norway and joined

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 ...

. Here, she won the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Norwegian championships.

CSM Bucharest

In 2017, she joined Romanian

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. Here, she won the 2018 Romanian championship and Cup. After the 2017-18 season, she retired.

Team Esbjerg

In December 2018, she did however unretire to join Danish side

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. With Esbjerg, she won the

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Danish championships and the 2021 Danish cup. In the 2021-22, she ultimately retired and became part of the

management.

National team

With the Norwegian national team, she won the

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5 times; in

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, and in

. At the 2007 World Championship, she won silver medals. A year later she won gold medals at the

. At the 2009 World Championship, she won bronze medals. At the 2011 World Championship, she won gold medals, and a year later, she defended her olympic title, when Norway won the gold at the

. She also represented Norway at the

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and the

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. At the latter tournament, she won bronze medals.

Post playing career

At the

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, she acted as a handball expert for

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Achievements

* Champions League: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2015,

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: **''Winner'': 2014 **''Finalist'': 2007, 2012 *

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: **''Winner'': 2008, 2012 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2016, 2020 *

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: **''Winner'': 2011 **''Silver Medalist'': 2007 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2009 *

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: **''Winner'': 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2020 **''Silver Medalist'': 2012 *

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: **''Finalist'':

*Norwegian Championship: **''Winner'': 2014/2015, 2015/2016 *Norwegian Cup: **''Winner'': 2007, 2014, 2015 **''Finalist'': 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009

Individual awards

* All-Star Team Best Line Player of the

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* 2020-21 Danish League all star team

References

External links

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Marit Malm Frafjord
at the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frafjord, Marit Malm 1985 births Living people Norwegian female handball players 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tromsø Viborg HK players Team Esbjerg players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Norwegian expatriate handball players in Denmark Norwegian expatriate handball players in Romania