Thale Rushfeldt Deila


Thale Rushfeldt Deila is a Norwegian handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Norwegian national team.
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Career

Thale Deila started playing handball at Reistad IL together with her twin sister, Live Deila.
In 2016 she transferred to first league team Glassverket IF. She made her senior debut on October 8th 2017 at the age of 17.
She played at Glassverket for two seasons, the last of them with her sister.
In 2018 she joined Fredrikstad BK. In 2019 her sister also joined the club, and they were thus reunited once again.
In 2021 she joined league rivals Molde HK. In 2023 she moved to Denmark to join Odense Håndbold. In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.

National team

Thale Deila played 34 junior national team matches, scoring 110 goals.
She also represented Norway at the 2017 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship, where she received silver and at the 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, placing 11th.
She debuted for the senior team in April 2022. The same year she won gold medal at the European Championship.
The year after she won silver medal at the 2023 World Championship on home soil.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won a gold medal. Later the same year she won gold medal at the European championship. At the 2025 World Championship she won her first World Championship gold medal.

Achievements

National team

Club

Individual awards

  • All-Star Left Back of Eliteserien: 2019/2020

Personal life

She is the twin sister of fellow handballer Live Rushfeldt Deila, daughter of former international footballer Ronny Deila and niece of former international footballer Sigurd Rushfeldt.