Kjetil Strand

Kjetil Strand
Kjetil Strand under 2008 European Men's Handball Championship in Stavanger
Personal information
Full name Kjetil Øvrelid Strand
Born (1979-10-02) 2 October 1979 (age 45)
Stavanger, Norway
Nationality Norwegian
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Mid Back
Senior clubs
Years Team
-2003
 Stavanger Håndball
2003-2004
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2004-2006
 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg Håndbold
2006-2007
 AaB Håndbold
2007-2010
 Füchse Berlin
2010-2013
 Stavanger Håndball
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2013
 Norway 102 (473)

Kjetil Øvrelid Strand (born 2 October 1979) is a Norwegian former handball player. Strand played for Bjerringbro Silkeborg in Denmark before the 2006 European Championship. Afterwards he signed a contract with Aab Håndbold.

On 2 February 2006 he scored 19 goals, a Norwegian record,[1] in a Main Group Stage game against Iceland in the European Championship. Strand also holds the record for number of goals scored in a single season in the Norwegian league: 281.[2] He set the record while playing for Stavanger Håndball in 2002/2003 season. In 2003 he was awarded Player of the year in Norwegian handball.[3]

Career

Kjetil Strand started his professional career at Stavanger Håndbold. There he made his breakthrough in the 2002/03 season, where he scored 281 goals in 25 games and became the league top scorer and handballer of the year. In the winter of 2003 he was approached by TBV Lemgo in the German Handball-Bundesliga, but moved to Flensburg-Handewitt instead. Here he played a single season, where he won the German Bundesliga. He then moved to Danish side Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. In 2006 he moved to league rivals AaB Håndbold. In 2007 he returned to Germany to join Füchse Berlin. In 2010 he announced that he would not extend his contract and moved back to Stavanger Håndbold, where he finished his career in 2013.

References

  1. ^ (in Norwegian)- Reddet karrièren, by Arne Hole in Aftenposten 4 February 2006
  2. ^ (in Norwegian) Skytterkonger from the Norwegian Handball Federation
  3. ^ "Players of the year" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Association. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
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