Emilie Hegh Arntzen (born 1 January 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for CSM București and the Norwegian national team.

Her achievements include one victory in the Women's EHF Champions League as club player, one Olympic bronze medal, one gold and one silver medal at the IHF World Women's Handball Championships, and four times European champion.

Emilie Hegh Arntzen

Career

Club career

As youth player, Hegh Arntzen represented the clubs Stord HK, Herkules and Gulset IF. At senior level she played for Gjerpen IF from 2010 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017 she represented the club Byåsen IL, and then Vipers Kristiansand from 2017 to 2021. With Vipers, she won the Norwegian League four times, in the seasons 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, and 2020/2021, as well as winning the Norwegian Cup four times. With Vipers, she also won the 2020–21 Women's EHF Champions League.

Emilie Hegh Arntzen

She started playing for CSM București from 2021.

Emilie Hegh Arntzen

National team

Hegh Arntzen made her debut on the national team in 2014.

Her achievements with the national team include winning a gold medal at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship, having won a silver medal in 2017. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and became European champion in 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2022.

She also represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th, and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.

Personal life

Hegh Arntzen was born in Skien on 1 January 1994. She is the daughter of former international handballer Hanne Hegh and handball player and coach Ketil Arntzen.

Achievements

Olympic Games: Bronze Medalist: 2016 World Championship: Gold Medalist: 2021 Silver Medalist: 2017 European Championship: Winner: 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022 World Youth Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2012 Youth European Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2011 EHF Champions League: Winner: 2020/2021 Bronze medalist: 2018/2019 EHF Cup: Finalist: 2018 Romanian Cup: Winner: 2022 Romanian Supercup: Winner: 2022 Finalist: 2021

Norwegian League: Winner: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 Norwegian Cup: Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Individual awards

MVP of the 2022 Romanian Cup

Best Centre Back in the month of September 2016, Grundigligaen 2016/2017

References

External links

1994 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Skien

Norwegian female handball players

Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic handball players for Norway

Olympic bronze medalists for Norway

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic medalists in handball

Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Romania

21st-century Norwegian women

21st-century Norwegian people