Mia Hundvin

Medal record
Women's handball
Competitor for  Norway
Olympic Games
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team competition

Mia Terese Hundvin (born March 7, 1977 in Bergen, Norway) is one of Norway's most successful professional team handball players.

Career

Hundvin played 73 matches for Norway's national handball team in addition to playing for professional clubs. She was part of national teams that won the World Women's Handball Championship in 1999, the European Women's Handball Championship in 1998 and Olympic bronze in 2000 Hundvin scored the game-winner as Norway beat South Korea, 22-21.^[1]

She became pregnant by partner Terje Haakonsen in 2003, which interrupted her playing for the Danish team Aalborg.^[2] In addition to her handball career, Hundvin has been training to be a photographer and works for Danish television.

An episode of the Danish sit-com Langt fra Las Vegas was called Mia Hundvin.

Personal life

In 2000 she entered a registered partnership with Danish handball player Camilla Andersen, but divorced her three years later. Sports Illustrated ran a lengthy feature on the two, who are much-discussed celebrities in their countries. According to Sports Illustrated, Andersen had been the lover of handball legend Anja Andersen after they won the gold for Denmark in 1996.^[3]

After her divorce from Andersen, she married and had a child with male snowboarder Terje Haakonsen, who was the world's top snowboarder in the 1990s.

References

1. ^ "Denmark come back for handball gold", BBC, October 1, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics2000/other_sports/951045.stm, retrieved November 22, 2007]] 
2. ^ "Mia set to be a mamma", Aftenposten, September 30, 2003, http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sports/article636633.ece, retrieved November 22, 2007 
3. ^ Outsports Out Athletes^{[unreliable source?]}

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