Sanna Solberg-Isaksen


Sanna Charlotte Solberg-Isaksen is a Norwegian handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Norwegian national team.
She is a twin sister of Silje Solberg-Østhassel and is half Swedish through her mother.

Career

Solberg-Isaksen started playing handball at Helset IF, and later signed for Stabæk IF in the highest Norwegian league, where she played with her sister, Silje Solberg. In 2011, she reached the final of the Norwegian cup with the club, where they lost to Larvik HK.
In 2014, she signed for Larvik HK. Here she won the Norwegian championship in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In 2017, she joined Danish side Team Esbjerg. Here she won the Danish league in 2019, 2020, and 2024, and the Danish cup in 2021.
In July 2022, she announced her first pregnancy. In October 2025, she announched her second pregnancy.

National team

She made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 2010 in a match against Romania. The same year she played at the 2013 World Championship. A year later she won gold medals at the 2014 European Championship. At the 2015 World Championship she won bronze medals.
She also represented Norway at the 2016 Olympics where she won another bronze medal. Later the same year she won her second European title at the 2016 European Championship.

Achievements

  • Olympic Games:
  • *Winner: 2024
  • *Bronze Medalist: 2016, 2020
  • World Championship:
  • *Winner: 2015, 2021
  • *Silver Medalist: 2017, 2023
  • European Championship:
  • *Winner: 2014, 2016, 2020, 2024
  • Junior World Championship:
  • *Winner: 2010
  • Junior European Championship:
  • *Winner: 2009
  • EHF Champions League:
  • *Bronze medalist: 2023/2024, 2024/2025
  • EHF Cup:
  • *Finalist: 2019
  • Norwegian Championship:
  • *Winner: 2014/2015, 2015/2016
  • Norwegian Cup:
  • *Winner: 2014, 2015
  • *Finalist: 2011, 2012
  • Danish League:
  • *Gold Medalist: 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
  • *Silver Medalist: 2025
  • Danish Cup:
  • *Winner: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • *Bronze Medalist: 2018

    Individual awards

  • All-Star Left Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2010
  • All-Star Left Wing of Damehåndboldligaen: 2017/2018
  • All-Star Left Wing of EHF Champions League: 2020, 2022

    Personal life

In July 2022, she announced that she was expecting her first child with her husband, Kjetil. In January 2023, she gave birth to her daughter, Mathea.