Tonje Sagstuen

Tonje Sagstuen (born 17 November 1971) is a Norwegian former team handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive. She has been chief executive officer of the gambling company Norsk Tipping since 2023.

Playing for the Norway women's national handball team, she won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1997 world championships. She was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy in 1999. A journalist since 1999, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the newspaper Oppland Arbeiderblad in 2012.

Personal life
Sagstuen was born in Lørenskog on 17 November 1971.

Club career
Sagstuen played handball for the clubs Toten HK, Borussia Dortmund and IK Junkeren.

International career
Sagstuen played 217 games for the Norway women's national handball team during her career, scoring 593 goals.

She won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, with the Norwegian team. After defeating Soviet Union in the semi final, Norway lost against South Korea in the final.

Further international achievements are winning the bronze medal at the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship, and bronze at the 1994 European Women's Handball Championship.

She was part of the Norwegian team at the 1997 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany, where Norway reached the final, which they lost to Denmark, thus winning the silver medals. Scoring 59 goals, Sagstuen listed number three on the top scorer list, and was also selected to the all-star team of the championship.

Awards
She was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 1999.

Media and business career
From 1999 Sagstuen was assigned as sports journalist for the newspaper Oppland Arbeiderblad. She eventually assumed editor functions from 2006, and served as assistant chief editor in 2011. In 2012, she became the new editor-in-chief of Oppland Arbeiderblad.

Sagstuen has been part of the administrative group of the gambling company Norsk Tipping since 2014. In 2023 she was appointed acting CEO of Norsk Tipping, succeeding Thor Gjermund Eriksen. In November 2023 she was appointed the new permanent director of Norsk Tipping.