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Ragnhild Gulbrandsen

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Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
Personal information
Full name Ragnhild Øren Gulbrandsen[1]
Date of birth (1977-02-22) 22 February 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Narvik, Norway
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Ranheim
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2001 Trondheims-Ørn 70 (93)
2002–2003 Boston Breakers 13 (1)
2004–2005 Trondheims-Ørn 18 (17)
2005–2007 Asker 16 (10)
International career
1997–2007 Norway 80 (30)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Norway
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 December 2007

Ragnhild Øren Gulbrandsen (born 22 February 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and former football striker from the city of Trondheim who retired from football at the end of 2007. Most of her playing career was spent with Trondheims-Ørn (Trondheim Eagles) women's football club, with whom she won the Norwegian elite league, the Toppserien, three times and the Cup four times, and was the club's top scorer in 1997, 2000 and 2001. As of April 2012, Gulbrandsen's 141 Toppserien goals made her third in the all-time goalscorer statistics.[2]

In 2000 Gulbrandsen played in the Norway team which won gold at the Sydney Olympics, scoring Norway's second goal in the 3–2 final win against the USA. She played as a professional in the US with Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) club Boston Breakers in 2002 and 2003.

At the end of 2005 Gulbrandsen moved to Oslo to work as a journalist, and considered retiring from football. But she joined Asker women's football club, and in the 2006 season when Asker won the Division 1 title, she twice scored six goals in a match. She last played for Asker SK and the Norway national football team.

At the FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 tournament in China in 2007, Gulbrandsen scored six goals for Norway and won the Tournament's Bronze Shoe award as the third top scorer behind Marta of Brazil and Abby Wambach of the US. Her international career, which was interrupted several times by injury, included 97 appearances for Norway at all levels, with 38 goals. She later found employment as a journalist for Budstikka.

Ragnhild's father Odd Gulbrandsen played professional football for Rosenborg BK.[3] She is not related to the contemporary Norwegian footballer Solveig Gulbrandsen.[4]

International goals

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No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 17 June 1998 Ulefoss, Norway  Germany 1–0 3–2 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2. 3–1
3. 11 September 1999 Strusshamn, Norway  Switzerland 1–0 4–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying
4. 7 May 2000 Moss, Norway  Portugal 4–0 5–0
5. 28 September 2000 Sydney, Australia  United States 2–1 3–2 (a.e.t.) 2000 Summer Olympics
6. 15 March 2001 Portimão, Portugal  Denmark 1–0 1–0 2001 Algarve Cup
7. 17 March 2001 Quarteira, Portugal  United States 1–0 4–3
8. 2–3
9. 3–3
10. 2 October 2004 Porsgrunn, Norway  Spain 1–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2005 qualifying
11. 10 November 2004 Reykjavík, Iceland  Iceland 4–0 7–2
12. 5–0
13. 25 March 2006 Athens, Greece  Greece 1–0 3–0 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
14. 3–0
15. 20 June 2006 Halden, Norway  Greece 1–0 4–0
16. 2–0
17. 23 September 2006 Rimini, Italy  Italy 1–0 2–1
18. 30 August 2007 Mainz, Germany  Germany 2–1 2–2 Friendly
19. 12 September 2007 Hangzhou, China  Canada 1–1 2–1 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
20. 15 September 2007  Australia 1–0 1–1
21. 20 September 2007  Ghana 2–0 7–2
22. 5–0
23. 6–0
24. 30 September 2007 Shanghai, China  United States 1–4 1–4

References

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  1. ^ Ragnhild Gulbrandsen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian) Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Grythaugen, Stian (13 April 2012). "Rekordjakt i Toppserien" (in Norwegian). Romerikes Blad. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Ragnhild Gulbrandsen Bio". ESPN. 7 September 2003. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  4. ^ Andresen, Gorm (11 October 2005). "Vi trener like mye som gutta" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
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