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Børge Lund

Norwegian handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ695072
Source-derived summary

Børge Lund (born 13 March 1979) is a retired Norwegian handball player and current handball coach of Elverum. He played 216 matches and scored 390 goals for the Norway men's national handball team between 2000 and 2014. He participated at the 2005 and 2007 World Men's Handball Championship, as well in the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2012 and 2014 European Men's Handball Championship.

Lund was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 2019.

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The public source identifies “Børge Lund” as norwegian handball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Børge, Lund and Norwegian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2000, 2014, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-03-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Børge, Lund and Norwegian providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q695072. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2000, 2014 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from Børge Lund” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.