Ingvild Bakkerud

Ingvild Bakkerud (born 9 July 1995) is a Norwegian handball player for Ikast Håndbold and the Norwegian national team^[1]

Ingvild Bakkerud
Bakkerud in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Ingvild Kristiansen Bakkerud
Born	(1995-07-09) 9 July 1995 (age 30) Kongsberg, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	Ikast Håndbold
Number	10
Youth career
Team
	Skrim Kongsberg
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2010–2018	Skrim Kongsberg
2018–2020	Odense Håndbold
2020–2025	Ikast Håndbold
2025–	Odense Håndbold
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2018–	Norway	71	(121)
Medal record World Championship 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden European Championship 2024 Austria/Hungary/Switzerland Youth World Championship 2012 Montenegro

Career

Bakkerud started playing handball at the hometown club Skrim Kongsberg. Here she also played beach handball, where she won the EHF Beach Handball Champions Cup in 2014.^[2]

In 2018 she joined Danish side Odense Håndbold.^[3]

In 2020 she joined league rivals Herning-Ikast Håndbold,^[4] where she won the 2023 EHF European League.

In the summer of 2025 she will return to Odense Håndbold.^[5]

National team

Bakkerud played 29 youth national team matches, scoring 40 goals.

She also represented Norway at the 2012 Women's Junior World Handball Championship placing 3rd, and the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.^[6]

She debuted for the national team on May 30, 2018.

Achievements

• World Championship:
  • Silver Medalist: 2023
• European Championship:
  • Winner: 2024
• World Youth Championship:
  • Bronze Medalist: 2012
• Danish League:
  • Silver Medalist: 2020
  • Bronze Medalist: 2019
• Danish Cup:
  • Finalist: 2018, 2019
• EHF European League:
  • Winner: 2023