Katja Nyberg is the daughter of Robert Nyberg, the first Finnish handball player to play professionally abroad. She was born in Stockholm while Robert was living in Sweden. The family later relocated to Finland where she grew up.
She started her handball career in Helsinki club Sparta IF with her father as coach.
She has played 99 games for the Norwegian national team Early years Nyberg played sports from an early age, mainly javelin throw and other athletics varieties. Club career Nyberg played for Sparta until she was 18.
As handball in Finland was not competitive enough, she decided to pursue a professional career abroad.
She first moved to Sweden where she played for Stockholmspolisens IF for one season (1997–1998), then signed a contract with Norwegian club Larvik Hong Kong and played there for 7 years (1998–2005). By the time she left the club, she had scored an average of 6.65 goals per match, with 765 goals in 115 matches.
However, her season in Ljubljana was prematurely ended in October of that year when she suffered a serious shoulder injury. lieutenant required surgery and kept her away from the handball court for nine months.
By that time, her relationship with Gro Hammerseng had already become public and both had expressed their desire to play for the same club
They received offers from other clubs, but ultimately chose Ikast, where Hammerseng was already playing. Nyberg lived in Denmark and played for Football Club Midtjylland Håndbold for 4 years (2006–2010). On 17 February 2010, she signed a two-year contract with her former club Larvik Hong Kong and has played for them since the 2010/11 season.
National team Katja Nyberg gained Norwegian citizenship on 16 January 2001 and made her debut with the national team on 23 March 2001 against France.
She was not allowed to play for Norway in official tournaments until 2002 because she had competed at the 1999 Junior World Championship qualification for Finland. She then received a gold medal at the 2004 and 2006 European Championships.
She was also voted Most Valuable Player of the tournament. As of February 2009, she has played 99 games for Norway and scored 321 goals.
NORWEGIAN NATIONAL TEAM European Championship: Gold: 2004, 2006, silver in 2002 World Championship: Silver: 2007 Summer Olympics: Gold: 2008 With: Larvik Hong Kong Norwegian League Gold: 99/00, 00/01, 01/02, 02/03, 04/05 Bronze: 03/04 Norwegian Cup Gold: 99/00, 02/03, 03/04, 04/05 Silver: 98/99 Norwegian Play-offs Gold: 04/05 Gold: 04/05 EHF Champions League: Semi-finalist: 01/02, 03/04 With: Football Club Midtjylland Håndbold ("Ikast") Danish League (Doctor of Medicine): Silver: 07/08 EHF Cup: Silver: 06/07.
Honorary member of the Finnish Handball Federation
Honorary member of Sparta IF.
