Ragnhild Gulbrandsen

Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
Personal information
Full name	Ragnhild Øren Gulbrandsen
Date of birth	22 February 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Narvik, Norway
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Ranheim
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–2001	Trondheims-Ørn
2002–2003	Boston Breakers
2004–2005	Trondheims-Ørn
2005–2007	Asker
International career‡
1997–2007	Norway
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Norway
Olympic Games
	*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

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.	17 June 1998	Ulefoss, Norway	Germany	3–1	3–2	1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
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	UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying
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.	10 November 2004	Reykjavík, Iceland	Iceland	5–0	7–2
13.	25 March 2006	Athens, Greece	Greece	1–0	3–0	2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
14.	25 March 2006	Athens, Greece	Greece	3–0	3–0
15.	20 June 2006	Halden, Norway	Greece	1–0	4–0
16.	20 June 2006	Halden, Norway	Greece	2–0	4–0
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

^ Ragnhild Gulbrandsen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
^ Grythaugen, Stian (13 April 2012). "Rekordjakt i Toppserien" (in Norwegian). Romerikes Blad. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
^ "Ragnhild Gulbrandsen Bio". ESPN. 7 September 2003. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
^ 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.