Amanda Kurtović

Amanda Kurtović (born 25 July 1991) is a Norwegian handball player who plays right back for Larvik HK and formerly the Norwegian national team. She has won medals at Olympic, World and European level.

Club career
Playing for Larvik HK, Kurtović won the Norwegian league and the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup in 2011, as well as winning the EHF Champions League, and also won the Norwegian league in 2012.

From 2012 to 2014 she played for the Danish club Viborg HK, and won the Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup with Viborg in 2014.

She played for the club Oppsal Håndball from 2014 to 2015, and again for Larvik HK from 2015 to 2017, when Larvik won the Norwegian cup in 2015, both the cup and the league in 2016, and the league in 2017.

International career
Playing for the Norwegian national team, Kurtović became World champion in 2011, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2015, and European champion in 2016. In 2016 she also won Olympic bronze medal with the Norwegian team. At the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany she won a silver medal with the Norwegian team.

Right before the European Championship, in November 2018, Kurtović raptured her ACL. After that she has only made three appearances, in 2020, for the national team, and since has not been called back.

International honours

 * Olympic Games:
 * Winner: 2012
 * Bronze Medalist: 2016
 * World Championship:
 * Winner: 2011, 2015
 * Silver Medalist: 2017
 * European Championship
 * Winner: 2016
 * EHF Champions League:
 * Winner: 2011
 * Bronze Medalist: 2018
 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup
 * Winner: 2014
 * Junior European Championship:
 * Winner: 2009

Individual awards

 * All-Star Team Right Wing of the Junior European Championship: 2009
 * All-Star Right Back of Grundigligaen: 2016/2017
 * Most Valuable Player of Grundigligaen: 2016/2017
 * Prosport Best Right Back of the Romanian Liga Națională: 2018

Personal life
She was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Croatian father, the handball coach and former player Marinko Kurtović. Her brother William is a professional footballer who represented Sweden internationally on youth level. Her family moved to Sandefjord, Norway, when she was six because her father signed a contract with the local club. In July 2023, Kurtović announced her first pregnancy with former hockey player Brede Csiszar.