Hanne Hegh
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| Born | 27 April 1960 Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Norwegian School of Sport Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Emilie Hegh Arntzen[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hanne Hegh (born 27 April 1960) is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist.[1][2]
Club career
From 1981 to 1993 she played for Gjerpen IF, where she won 9 Norwegian championships.[3] In 1987 she was top scorer in Eliteserien, and was named player of the year in Norway.[2]
National team
She made her debut for the Norwegian national team in 1979 against the Soviet Union.[3] Hanne Hegh was captain on the first Norway national team winning a medal in an international championship, the bronze medal at the 1986 World Women's Handball Championship.[2] She won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Norwegian national team.[4][5] Hanne Hegh played 202 games for the national team between 1979 and 1990, scoring 361 goals.[6]
Awards and recognitions
Hegh was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 1998.[7]
Coach
She was educated at Norges idrettshøgskole.[8] From 1997 to 2010 Hanne Hegh was on the coaching squad of the Norway men's national handball team. As of 2010 she was a teacher at Grenland Folkehøgskole in Porsgrunn, Norway.[3]
