Vilde Mortensen Ingstad (born 18 December 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for Ferencvárosi TC and the Norwegian national team.[1]
Ingstad started playing handball in 2002 at Nordstrand IF, where she made her senior debut in 2010. In 2014 she joined Oppsal IF.[2] In 2016 she joined Danish side Team Esbjerg.[3] Here she won the 2019, 2020 and 2023 Danish Championships and the 2017,[4] 2021 and 2022 Danish Cup. In 2017 she extended her contract at the club until 2020.[4]In 2018 she was named player of the year in Denmark.[5]
In 2023 she joined Romanian top club CSM București.[6] Here she won the 2024 Romanian championship and cup.
She has signed a deal to join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC for the 2025-26 season.[7]
Ingstad played 26 games for the Norwegian U19 team and 34 games for the U20 teams.[8]
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]
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.[4] 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]
Ingstad is born to a Norwegian mother and Danish father.[12]
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