International Women’s Day is impactful through collective action and shared ownership. In handball, women have been the driving force for taking the sport even further and popularising it through various events across, in club competitions, spearheaded by the EHF Champions League, and international events like the EHF EURO.

In recent years, few players have impacted the sport on the court more than Norwegian centre back Stine Bredal Oftedal, a four-time EHF EURO champion with the Scandinavian powerhouse and a two-time EHF Champions League winner with Györi Audi ETO KC.