Tonje_Sagstuen

Tonje Sagstuen

Tonje Sagstuen

Norwegian handball player (born 1971)

Tonje Sagstuen (born 17 November 1971) is a Norwegian former team handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive. She has been chief executive officer of the gambling company Norsk Tipping since 2023.

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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.

Personal life

Sagstuen was born in Lørenskog on 17 November 1971.[1]

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]

Media and business career

From 1999 Sagstuen was assigned as sports journalist for the newspaper Oppland Arbeiderblad. She eventually assumed editor functions from 2006, and served as assistant chief editor in 2011.[2] In 2012, she became the new editor-in-chief of Oppland Arbeiderblad.[6]

Sagstuen has been part of the administrative group of the gambling company Norsk Tipping since 2014. In 2023 she was appointed acting CEO of Norsk Tipping,[7] succeeding Thor Gjermund Eriksen.[8] In November 2023 she was appointed the new permanent director of Norsk Tipping.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Tonje Sagstuen". olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  2. [2]
    Aune, Thomas; Garvik, Olav. "Tonje Sagstuen". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  3. [3]
    "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball" Archived 23 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 12 February 2008)
  4. [4]
    Haraldsen, Stian (2016). "De 25 medaljemesterskapene". Gode som gull. 30 år med håndballjentene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 144–159. ISBN 978-82-03-29618-5.
  5. [5]
    "Handball-WM". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 16 December 1997. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  6. [6]
    Watz, Mina (7 June 2012). "Ny ansvarlig redaktør i OA". Oppland Arbeiderblad (in Norwegian).
  7. [7]
    "Tonje Sagstuen konstitueres som direktør i Norsk Tipping". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 14 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  8. [8]
    "Tonje Sagstuen er ny direktør i Norsk Tipping". vg.no (in Norwegian). 14 August 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  9. [9]
    "Ny direktør i Norsk Tipping". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
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