Tonje Sagstuen

Tonje Sagstuen (born 17 November 1971) is a Norwegian former team handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive.

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. She was chief executive officer of the gambling company Norsk Tipping from 2023 to 2025.

Personal life Sagstuen was born in Lørenskog on 17 November 1971. After defeating Soviet Union in the semi final, Norway lost against South Korea in the final.

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.

Sagstuen was part of the administrative group of the gambling company Norsk Tipping from 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. She resigned from her position as chief executive in June 2025. Her resignation came following a severe error, when nearly fifty thousand gamblers received the false information from Norsk Tipping that they had won millions in a lottery. In the aftermath oh her resignation, discussions appeared in the press whether her generous compensation package amounting to more than 3 million NOK was appropriate or not.

She was appointed strategy and communications director for the employers' organisation Spekter from December 2025.