Runa Vikestad (born 13 August 1984) is a Norwegian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

defender, currently playing for Kolbotn Fotball in the

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...

. She has also played for

IF Fløya Idrettsforeningen Fløya is a Norwegian football club from the city of Tromsø. The club was founded on 22 June 1922 and named after the Fløya mountain which overlooks Tromsø centre. The women's team has got two third-place finishes in Toppse ...

and

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Fortuna Hjørring Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where they ...

. From the age of 5 to 16 Vikestad played in boys' football teams at her home on the island of

Senja or is an island in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway, Europe. With an area of , it is the second largest island in Norway (outside of the Svalbard archipelago). It has a wild, mountainous outer (western) side facing the Atlantic, and a mild ...

. She was with Fløya when the club gained promotion to the Toppserien in 2002, and the club then finished in 5th place in 2003 and 3rd in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, she moved to Denmark and became a league champion with Fortuna Hjørring. Back in Norway in 2007 with Kolbotn she won the Norwegian Cup, and has captained the club since 2010. She has been a member of the Norwegian national team on and off since 2004, taking part in the 2009 European Championship and the 2011 World Cup. She previously played the 2003 U-19 Euro, where Norway reached the final. Vikestad made her debut for Norway in 2008 and has of November 2012 been capped 15 times, scoring one goal.

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1984 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football defenders {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub