Are Grongstad
Are Kristoffer Grongstad (born 9 April 1988) is a Norwegian handball player.
He hails from Namsos. As a teenager he played for Heimdal HK in the highest Norwegian league, but when that club was struck by economic problems in 2007 he joined Elverum Håndball With Elverum Håndball he won the Norwegian playoffs and got silver in the Norwegian cup.
At age 20, in September 2008 he came out as the first openly homosexual athlete in Norway.[citation needed] This news got very big attention in the Scandinavian press and Are Grongstad admitted in November 2010 that he regretted the way he came out. He felt that he got too exposed and this took a lot more energy from him than he ever could imagine.
After a troubling period with injures he wanted a new chance and left Elverum Håndball in summer 2009 and transferred to Nøtterøy Idrettsforening and is now playing with the big handball star Johnny Jensen.
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