Isabel Blanco

Isabel Blanco

Personal information
Born	10 May 1979 Bergen, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Pivot
Club information
Current club	Halden HK
National team ^1
2004–2014	Norway	86 (165)
Medal record European Championship 2004 Hungary Team 2008 Macedonia Team
^1 National team caps and goals correct as of 6 June 2016

Isabel Blanco (born May 10, 1979 in Bergen) is a Norwegian handball player of Galician descent.

Club career

Blanco has previously played for the clubs Kjøkkelvik, Vadmyra, Nordnes, Tertnes IL, Club El Ferrobus Mislata, Aalborg DH, FC Midtjylland, Larvik HK and Molde HK. She earned a silver medal in the 2005 and 2008 Danish championships, and a bronze medal in 2006, when she was voted Pivot of the Year in the Danish league.

National team

She won a gold medal at the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship with the Norwegian national team^[1] and again at the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship.

Personal life

Her father is Fernando Blanco Jiménez, a Spanish-Galician and former Deportivo de La Coruña football player. She has not lived in Spain except for the one year at Club El Ferrobus Mislata.^[2]

Blanco is an avid painter and photographer, and has stated on numerous occasions that she would like to pursue them as a career when she is done with handball. Blanco has her own website where she sells her paintings.^[3]

References

1. "6th European Handball Championships – Hungary 2004 – Team Norway" (Retrieved on February 25, 2008)
2. Christiansen, Anders K. (11 December 2004). "- Vi bør slå Spania". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 December 2008.
3. isabelblanco.com