Amanda Kurtović
Personal information
Full name Amanda Maria Kurtović
Born (1991-07-25) 25 July 1991[1]
Karlskrona, Sweden[1]
Nationality Norwegian
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club Larvik HK
Number 24
Youth career
Team
 Sandefjord TIF
Senior clubs
Years Team
2007–2010
 Nordstrand IF
2010
 Byåsen HE
2011–2012
 Larvik HK
2012–2014
 Viborg HK
2014–2015
 Oppsal
2015–2017
 Larvik HK
2017–2019
 CSM București
2019–2021
 Győri Audi ETO KC
2021
 → Kastamonu Belediyesi (loan)
2021–2022
 HC Dunărea Brăila
2022–
 Larvik HK
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2020
 Norway 118 (291)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2012 LondonTeam
Bronze medal – third place2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
Gold medal – first place2011 Brazil
Gold medal – first place2015 Denmark
Silver medal – second place2017 Germany
European Championship
Gold medal – first place2016 Sweden
Junior European Championship
Gold medal – first place2009 Hungary

Amanda Kurtović (born 25 July 1991) is a Norwegian handball player who plays right back for Larvik HK and formerly the Norwegian national team.[2][3][4] She has won medals at Olympic, World and European level.

Career

Club career

Playing for Larvik HK, Kurtović won the Norwegian league and the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup in 2011, as well as winning the EHF Champions League, and also won the Norwegian league in 2012.[1]

From 2012 to 2014 she played for the Danish club Viborg HK, and won the Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup with Viborg in 2014.[1]

She played for the club Oppsal Håndball from 2014 to 2015, and again for Larvik HK from 2015 to 2017, when Larvik won the Norwegian cup in 2015, both the cup and the league in 2016, and the league in 2017.[1]

International career

Playing for the Norwegian national team, Kurtović became World champion in 2011, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2015, and European champion in 2016. In 2016 she also won Olympic bronze medal with the Norwegian team.[1][5] At the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany she won a silver medal with the Norwegian team.

Right before the European Championship, in November 2018, Kurtović raptured her ACL.[6] After that she has only made three appearances, in 2020, for the national team, and since has not been called back.

International honours

Individual awards

Personal life

She was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Croatian father, the handball coach and former player Marinko Kurtović. Her brother William is a professional footballer who represented Sweden internationally on youth level.[9] Her family moved to Sandefjord, Norway, when she was six because her father signed a contract with the local club.[3] In July 2023, Kurtović announced her first pregnancy with former hockey player Brede Csiszar.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bryhn, Rolf; Aune, Thomas. "Amanda Kurtović". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Landslagsprofiler – Amanda Kurtovic" (in Norwegian). Norges Håndballforbund (www.handball.no). Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  3. 1 2 Amanda Kurtović Archived 11 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  4. ↑ EHF profile
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Kurtovic av banen i store smerter: – De hylene går gjennom marg og bein" (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Her er Årets..." Norwegian Handball Federation (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Cristina Neagu, cea mai bună handbalistă din Liga Naţională în sezonul 2017-2018. Cum arată echipa ideală a campionatului, după voturile exprimate de antrenori" (in Romanian). Prosport. 21 May 2018.
  9. ↑ Arne Hole. "I kveld skal Amanda banke farens fødeland". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
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