Ragni Hestad (born 5 September 1968) is a Norwegian

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...

player, born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

. She competed in the

women's tournament A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses ...

at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

, with team mate

Merita Berntsen Merita Berntsen Mol (born 24 February 1969) is a Norwegian beach volleyball player, born in Bergen. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, with teammate Ragni Hestad. She won a silver medal at the 1995 Eu ...

. She won a silver medal at the 1995 European Beach Volleyball Championships along with Merita Berntsen Mol.

Personal life

Hestad was born in

on 5 September 1968.

References

External links

* 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Bergen Norwegian beach volleyball players Olympic beach volleyball players for Norway Beach volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics {{Norway-sport-bio-stub