Tonje Sagstuen
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Journalist and newspaper editor
Business executive
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| Born | 17 September 1971 Lørenskog, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupations | Handball player Journalist and newspaper editor Business executive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Awards | Håndballstatuetten (1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tonje Sagstuen (born 17 November 1971) is a Norwegian former team handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive.
Playing for the Norway women's national handball team, she won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1997 world championships. She was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy in 1999. A journalist since 1999, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the newspaper Oppland Arbeiderblad in 2012. She was chief executive officer of the gambling company Norsk Tipping from 2023 to 2025.
Handball career
Club career
Sagstuen played handball for the clubs Toten HK, Borussia Dortmund and IK Junkeren.[2]
International career
Sagstuen played 217 games for the Norway women's national handball team during her career, scoring 593 goals.[2]
She won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, with the Norwegian team.[1][3] After defeating Soviet Union in the semi final, Norway lost against South Korea in the final.[4]
Further international achievements are winning the bronze medal at the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship, and bronze at the 1994 European Women's Handball Championship.[2][4]
She was part of the Norwegian team at the 1997 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany, where Norway reached the final, which they lost to Denmark, thus winning the silver medals.[2][4] Scoring 59 goals, Sagstuen listed number three on the top scorer list, and was also selected to the all-star team of the championship.[5]
Awards
She was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 1999.[2][6]
