Vilde Ingstad

Vilde Ingstad
Ingstad in 2018
Personal information
Full name Vilde Mortensen Ingstad
Born (1994-12-18) 18 December 1994 (age 30)
Oslo, Norway
Nationality Norwegian
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Pivot
Club information
Current club Ferencvárosi TC
Number 51
Youth career
Years Team
2002-2010
Nordstrand IF
Senior clubs
Years Team
2010–2014
Nordstrand IF
2014–2016
Oppsal
2016–2023
Team Esbjerg
2023–2025
CSM București
2025–
Ferencvárosi TC
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–
Norway 139 (216)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 Denmark
Gold medal – first place 2021 Spain
Silver medal – second place 2017 Germany
Silver medal – second place 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2016 Sweden
Gold medal – first place 2022 Slovenia/North Macedonia/Montenegro
Youth World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Montenegro

Vilde Mortensen Ingstad (born 18 December 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for Ferencvárosi TC and the Norwegian national team.[1]

Career

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Ingstad started playing handball in 2002 at Nordstrand IF, where she made her senior debut in 2010. In 2014 she joined Oppsal IF.[2] In 2016 she joined Danish side Team Esbjerg.[3] Here she won the 2019, 2020 and 2023 Danish Championships and the 2017,[4] 2021 and 2022 Danish Cup. In 2017 she extended her contract at the club until 2020.[4]In 2018 she was named player of the year in Denmark.[5]

In 2023 she joined Romanian top club CSM București.[6] Here she won the 2024 Romanian championship and cup.

She has signed a deal to join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC for the 2025-26 season.[7]

National team

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Ingstad played 26 games for the Norwegian U19 team and 34 games for the U20 teams.[8]

She also represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th,[9] and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.[10]

Senior national team

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She made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 2014.[11]

With the Norwegian team she won the 2015 World Championship, which was her first major international tournament.[12] A year later she won gold medals at the 2016 European Championship.[4] At the 2017 World Championship she won silver medals, losing to France in the final.[13]

At the 2021 World Championship she won her second World Championship. Two years later she won silver medals at the 2023 World Championship, once again losing to France in the final.[14] At the 2022 European Championship she won her second European Championship.

At the 2024 Olympics she won gold medals with the Norwegian team.[15] In the preliminary round she had a cruciate ligament tear, which meant she couldn't play the rest of the tournament.[16]

Personal life

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Ingstad is born to a Norwegian mother and Danish father.[12]

Achievements

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Individual awards

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References

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  1. ^ EHF profile
  2. ^ "Landslagsspiller fra NIF til Oppsal" (in Norwegian). nettavisen.no. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Norsk stregtalent skifter til Team Esbjerg". Teamesbjerg.no. Team Esbjerg. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Norsk verdensmester forlænger med Team Esbjerg" (in Danish). Fyens Stiftstidende. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2025 – via Ritzau.
  5. ^ "Årets Kvindelige Håndboldspiller" (in Danish). tophaandbold.dk. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  6. ^ "CSM Bukarest mit vier Personalentscheidungen" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Norvég és dán klasszissal erősödik kézilabdacsapatunk" (in Hungarian). fradi.hu. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  8. ^ handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Ingstad, Vilde Mortensen, retrieved 10 August 2024
  9. ^ "2013 Women's European Championship 19 – Final Tournament". EHF. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  10. ^ "IV Women's Youth World Championship in MNE" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  11. ^ "VM-troppen". Handball.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  12. ^ a b Jacobsen, Arild (10 November 2015). "Sjokkert Ingstad klar for VM" (in Norwegian). Nordstrands Blad. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  13. ^ "Norge tapte finalen" (in Norwegian). ba.no. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Frankrike verdensmester - sølv til Håndballjentene" (in Norwegian). handball.no. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  15. ^ "OL-gull til Håndballjentene!" (in Norwegian). handball.no. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Kreuzbandriss bedeutet Olympia-Aus für Norwegerin" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Årets Hold i grundspillet kåret – Polman topper". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Stort skulderklap: Vilde Ingstad - årets kvindelige håndboldspiller". Jydske Vestkysten (in Danish). 8 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  19. ^ "Golden players make the team of the season". EHF. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
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