Vilde Ingstad

Vilde Mortensen Ingstad (born 18 December 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for CSM București and the Norwegian national team.^[2]

Vilde Ingstad
Ingstad in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Vilde Mortensen Ingstad
Born	(1994-12-18) 18 December 1994 (age 30) Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Pivot
Club information
Current club	CSM București
Number	51
Youth career
Years	Team
2002-2010	Nordstrand IF
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2010–2014	Nordstrand IF
2014–2016	Oppsal
2016–2023	Team Esbjerg
2023–2025	CSM București
2025–	Ferencvárosi TC
National team 1
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–	Norway	137	(215)
Medal record Olympic Games 2024 Paris Team World Championship 2015 Denmark 2021 Spain 2017 Germany 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden European Championship 2016 Sweden 2022 Slovenia/North Macedonia/Montenegro Youth World Championship 2012 Montenegro
1 National team caps and goals correct as of 10 August 2024[1]

Career

Ingstad started playing handball in 2002 at Nordstrand IF, where she made her senior debut in 2010. In 2014 she joined Oppsal IF.^[3] In 2016 she joined Danish side Team Esbjerg.^[4] Here she won the 2019, 2020 and 2023 Danish Championships and the 2017,^[5] 2021 and 2022 Danish Cup. In 2017 she extended her contract at the club until 2020.^[5]In 2018 she was named player of the year in Denmark.^[6]

In 2023 she joined Romanian top club CSM București.^[7] Here she won the 2024 Romanian championship and cup.

She has signed a deal to join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC for the 2025-26 season.^[8]

National team

Ingstad played 26 games for the Norwegian U19 team and 34 games for the U20 teams.^[1]

She also represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th,^[9] and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.^[10]

Senior national team

She made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 2014.^[11]

With the Norwegian team she won the 2015 World Championship, which was her first major international tournament.^[12] A year later she won gold medals at the 2016 European Championship.^[5] At the 2017 World Championship she won silver medals, losing to France in the final.^[13]

At the 2021 World Championship she won her second World Championship. Two years later she won silver medals at the 2023 World Championship, once again losing to France in the final.^[14] At the 2022 European Championship she won her second European Championship.

At the 2024 Olympics she won gold medals with the Norwegian team.^[15] In the preliminary round she had a cruciate ligament tear, which meant she couldn't play the rest of the tournament.^[16]

Personal life

Ingstad is born to a Norwegian mother and Danish father.^[12]

Achievements

• European Championship:
  • Winner: 2016, 2022
• World Championship:
  • Winner: 2015, 2021
  • Silver Medalist: 2017
• World Youth Championship:
  • Bronze Medalist: 2012
• EHF Cup:
  • Finalist: 2019
• Danish League:
  • Gold Medalist: 2019, 2020, 2023
• Danish Cup:
  • Winner: 2017, 2021, 2022
  • Bronze Medalist: 2018

Individual awards

• All-Star Line Player of Grundigligaen: 2014/2015
• All-Star Line Player of Damehåndboldligaen: 2018/2019^[17]
• Best Player of Damehåndboldligaen: 2018/2019^[18]
• EHF Excellence Awards Best Line Player of 2022/23^[19]