Maren Nyland Aardahl

Maren Nyland Aardahl
Aardahl in 2024
Personal information
Full name Maren Nyland Aardahl
Born (1994-03-02) 2 March 1994
Trondheim, Norway
Nationality Norwegian
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Pivot
Club information
Current club Odense Håndbold
Number 3
Youth career
Years Team
2000–2012
Byåsen IL
Senior clubs
Years Team
2012–2019
Byåsen HE
2019–2020
SG BBM Bietigheim
2020–2021
SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea
2021–
Odense Håndbold
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021–
Norway 75 (128)
Medal record
Olympic Games
2024 Paris Team
World Championship
2021 Spain
2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
European Championship
2022 Slovenia/North Macedonia/Montenegro
2024 Austria/Hungary/Switzerland

Maren Nyland Aardahl (born 2 March 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for Odense Håndbold[1] and the Norwegian national team.[2]

Aardahl started her career as a back, but retrained as a pivot. She also has medals from competing at beach handball championships for Norway.[3]

In addition to regular handball, Aardahl also plays beach handball.[4]

Career

Aardahl started playing at her hometown club Byåsen IL and entered the senior team in 2012.[5]

In the summer of 2019 she transferred to the German Bundesliga team SG BBM Bietigheim. She played there for one season, before switching to Romanian team SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea.[6] A year later she signed for Danish team Odense Håndbold.[7] In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games.[8] Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.[9]

On October 10th 2021 she played her first match for the Norwegian national team in a win against Slovenia.[10] Right after she was on the Norwegian team that won the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain.[11]

Achievements

Individual awards

References

  1. ^ "Maren Nyland Aardahl Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Profiler" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Jakter flere medaljer for Norge" [Chasing more medals for Norway] (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  4. ^ "VIII Women's Beach Handball World Championship Russia (Kazan) Preliminary Round - Group D" (PDF). archive.ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  5. ^ "SPILLERPROFIL: Maren Nyland Aardahl" [Player profile: Maren Nyland Aardahl]. byaasen.no (in Norwegian). Byåsen IL. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Norwegerin Maren Aardahl verlässt Handball Bundesliga Frauen" [Norwegian Maren Aardahl comes to the women's Bundesliga] (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Odense announced the transfer of Norwegian lineplayer". timeoutmag.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  8. ^ Morten Mølby (5 April 2025). "Odense napper rub og stub og vinder grundspillet med lutter sejre" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Odense vinder DM-guld efter vanvittig afgørelse". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  10. ^ "Seier også i den andre kampen mot Slovenia" [Victory again in the second match against Slovenia] (in Norwegian). handballold.no. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  11. ^ "De viktigste fakta fra VM i Spania" [The most important facts from World Cup in Spain]. handball.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Retrieved 20 December 2021.