Hanne Hegh


Hanne Hegh is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist.

Playing career

Club career

From 1981 to 1993 she played for Gjerpen IF, where she won 9 Norwegian championships. In 1987 she was top scorer in Eliteserien, and was named player of the year in Norway.

National team

She made her debut for the Norwegian national team in 1979 against the Soviet Union.
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]. She won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Norwegian national team. Hanne Hegh played 202 games for the national team between 1979 and 1990, scoring 361 goals.

Awards and recognitions

Hegh was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 1998.

Coach

She was educated at Norwegian [School of Sport Sciences|Norges idrettshøgskole]. 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.

Personal life

Hegh was born in Oslo on 27 April 1960. She is the mother of international handball player Emilie Hegh Arntzen.