Stine Oftedal Dahmke (, born 25 September 1991) is a former Norwegian professional

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player for the Norwegian national team, where she was the team captain for nine years and who last played for

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. She is one time Olympic champion, three times World champion and five times European champion with the Norwegian national team. On club level, she won 3 Champions League titles. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2019 by the

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Early and personal life

Oftedal was born in

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on 25 September 1991. She is the older sister of fellow handball player Hanna Bredal Oftedal. She studied at

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. Previously she competed for Nittedal IL in the

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, throwing 32.08 m at the age 13. She is in a relationship with fellow handballer, Rune Dahmke. They got engaged 23 June 2023, and married on 16 August 2024.

Club career

Ofredal hails from

and started her career in Nit/Hak HK. She then continued to Fjellhammer IL before continuing to Helset IF. Helset is a feeder team for Stabæk Håndball, and so she played for Stabæk from the 2008–09 season while still being registered in Helset. From 2013 to 2017 she played for the French club

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. During this period she was selected player of the year in the French top league three times, in 2014, 2016 and 2017. From 2017 she played for the Hungarian club

, and won the

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with this club in 2018, 2019 and 2024.

International career

Playing for the Norwegian national team, Oftedal has been the team captain since 2015 until here retirement after winning the European championship 2024. Her achievements with the Norwegian team include winning the

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in 2011, 2015 and 2021, and winning the

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in 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2022. She won three Olympic medals, a gold medal at the

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, and two bronze medals at the

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

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Achievements

National team

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: **''Winner'':

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

**''Bronze Medalist'':

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Winner'': 2011, 2015, 2021 **''Silver Medalist'': 2017, 2023 *

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: **''Winner'': 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022 **''Silver Medalist'': 2012 * Junior World Championship: **''Winner'': 2010 * Junior European Championship: **''Winner'': 2009

European

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: **''Winner'': 2018, 2019, 2024 **''Finalist'': 2022 **''Bronze medalist:'' 2021, 2023

Domestic

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**''Winner'': 2018, 2019,

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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: **''Winner'': 2018, 2019, 2021 *Norwegian Cup: **''Finalist'': 2011, 2012

Individual awards

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: 2019, 2024 * All-Star centre back of the

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* All-Star Left Wing of the U18 European Open: 2008 * All-Star Centre Back of the Junior World Championship:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

* All-Star Centre Back of Postenligaen: 2010/2011 * French Championship MVP: 2014 * All-Star Centre Back of the World Championship: 2015,Stine Bredal Oftedal
nbcolympics.com 2023 * French Championship Best Playmaker: 2014, 2016 * Most Valuable Player of the World Championship: 2017 * All-Star Centre Back of the

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

* All-Star Centre Back of the

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* MVP EHF Champions League Final4:

* Handball-Planet.com All-Star Centre Back of the Year: 2019 * Foreign Handballer of the Year in Hungary: 2019 * The One Best Woman Player by Upskill Handball: 2024 * She was awarded the

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trophy from the

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in 2024.

References

External links

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Stine Bredal Oftedal
at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oftedal, Stine Bredal 1991 births Living people People from Nittedal Handball players from Akershus Norwegian female handball players Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Győri Audi ETO KC players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Norwegian expatriate handball players in France Norwegian expatriate handball players in Hungary Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway