Marit Røsberg-Torgersen (; born 25 February 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Norwegian national team.EHF profile
Career Jacobsen started her career at Ankenes HK, followed by Charlottenlund SK and Selbu IL. In 2014 she joined Byåsen IL.
In 2018, she joined Danish club Team Esbjerg auf. Here she won the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2022-23, and 2023-24 Danish championships and the 2011 and 2022 Danish cup. In the 2021-22, she was on the Danish league all star team as the right wing. In 2019, she reached the final of the EHF Cup, but Esbjerg lost to Hungarian Siófok KC.
In February 2025, she took a break from handball due to pregnancy.
National team Jacobsen played 34 games for the various Norwegian youth national teams. She represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th, and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.
She made her debut on the Norwegian national team 1 June 2016. A year later, she played at her first major international tournament, when Norway won silver medals the 2017 World Championship.
She also represented Norway at the 2018 European Championship.
Two years later, she won her first gold medal with Norway, when they won the 2020 European Championship. During the tournament, she scored 9 goals.
At the 2021 Olympics, she won silver medals, losing to France in the final. Jacobsen scored 11 goals during the tournament. Later the same year, she won the 2021 World Championship.
At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, she won gold medals.olympics.com: Paris 2024: Medallists, retrieved 10 August 2024 Later the same year, she won the 2024 European Championship, beating Denmark in the final.
Achievements Olympic Games: Winner: 2024 Bronze: 2020 World Championship: Winner: 2021 Silver Medalist: 2017 European Championship: Winner: 2020, 2024 Youth European Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2011 World Youth Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2012 EHF Champions League: Bronze medalist: 2023/2024, 2024/2025 EHF Cup: Finalist: 2019 Danish League: Gold Medalist: 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2026 Silver Medalist: 2025 Danish Cup: Gold Medalist: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Individual awards All-Star Right Wing of the Youth World Championship: 2012 All-Star Right Wing of Grundigligaen: 2015/2016 All-Star Right Wing of Eliteserien: 2017/2018 All-Star Right Wing of Damehåndboldligaen: 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021
Personal life In February 2025, she announced she was expecting her first child.
References
External links
Marit Røsberg Jacobsen at the Norwegian Handball Federation
Marit Jacobsen at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)