G�ril Snorroeggen is a Norwegian handball player, who plays for Esbjerg. She comes from an athletic family; her father was active in orienteering and her mother has played for By�sen I.L., the team in which her elder sister, Marthe Snorroeggen are currently playing for. She began her career at the youth sports club Kattem IL, where she then played both football and handball. At age 13, she switched handball clubs to the By�sen youth team, but continued to play football for Kattem. She proved to be successful in both sports, and represented Norway in the respective National Youth Teams. At age 16, she made a decision to focus her career on handball and left Kattem. Snorroeggen made her debut on the senior national handball team on 22 October 2004, and has since played 88 games, scoring 195 goals. Amongst her accomplishments with the national team is an Olympic gold medal that she received at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Gold medal VM 2011. 

February 15th, 1985 in Trondheim (Age 39)