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Kristine Duvholt Havnås

Norwegian handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2152538 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kristine Duvholt Havnås (born 31 January 1974) is a former Norwegian team handball player and World Champion. She was born in Tønsberg. She received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

She was voted into the All star team at the 1999 World Championship.

Career

Havnås played for entire senior career for Larvik HK, where she won the Norwegian championship 6 times and the 2005 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. She joined Larvik HK from her hometown club Tønsberg Turn.

After her playing career she has been a teacher at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kristine Duvholt Havnås” is norwegian handball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kristine, Duvholt and Havnås, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1992, 2000, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-01-31. For this dossier, Kristine, Duvholt and Havnås is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “norwegian handball player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2152538. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1992, 2000 and 1999.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Kristine Duvholt Havnås” 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.