Gjøvik FK
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Gjøvik Fotballklubb is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 women's football
Women's football (soccer)
Women's association football has been played for many decades, but was associated with charity games and physical exercise in the past before the breakthrough of organized women's association football came in the 1970s. Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game...

 club from Gjøvik
Gjøvik
is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality...

. Founded in on 15 August 1991, its women's team plays in the First Division, the second tier in Norway.

Their most famous player is cross-country skier Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2008. Her best individual World Cup finish is a 14th place at a sprint event in Otepää in January 2009, which she copied the year after at the same venue, but now in 10 km classic.She won 4 gold medals during...

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