Maren Aardahl

Maren Nyland Aardahl (born 2 March 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Norwegian national team.

Aardahl started her career as a back, but retrained as a pivot. She also has medals from competing at beach handball championships for Norway.

In addition to regular handball, Aardahl also plays beach handball.

Career Aardahl started playing at her hometown club Byåsen IL and entered the senior team in 2012.

In the summer of 2019 she transferred to the German Bundesliga team SG BBM Bietigheim. She played there for one season, before switching to Romanian team SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea. A year later she signed for Danish team Odense Håndbold. In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.

On October 10, 2021 she played her first match for the Norwegian national team in a win against Slovenia. Right after she was on the Norwegian team that won the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain.

At the 2022 European Championship, she and Norway won gold. A year later, she won silver medals at the 2023 World Championship, losing to France in the final.

At the 2024 Olympics, she won gold medals with the Norwegian team, completing her set of international titles. Later that year she won the 2024 European Championship, beating Denmark in the final.

At the 2025 World Championship she was part of the Norwegian team that won World Cup gold medals.

Achievements Olympic Games: Winner: 2024 World Championship: Winner: 2021, 2025 Silver Medalist: 2023 European Championship Winner: 2022, 2024 EHF Champions League: Silver: 2025 Norwegian League: Silver Medalist: 2012/2013, 2013/2014 Danish League: Winner: 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2024/2025 Silver: 2026

Individual awards All-Star Best Defender of the Romanian League: 2021