Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim (, 7 July 1970) is a Norwegian former handball player. She is a world champion from 1997, and an honorary member of her club Bækkelagets SK.
National team She has played in 296 games for the Norwegian National team, scoring 844 goals. Her first game for Norway ws on 17 June 1987 against East Germany. Between 1993 and 2000 she was the captain of the team. She is a World Champion from 1999.
Club career Goksør played for Bækkelagets SK until 1997. She joined the club aged 11, and made her senior league debut at the age of 15. With Bækkelaget she won the Norwegian Women's Handball Cup in 1994 and 1997. In 1994 she reached the final of the Euro-City-Cup, where Bækkelagets lost to Buxtehuder SV, and in 1995 she reached the final of the EHF Cup, where they lost to Hungarian Debrecen.List of EHF Cup finals in the-sports.org In 1997 she joined Nordstrand IF. She retired in 2000. In 2008 she made a short comeback, where she played 3 games for Nordstrand IF.
Private She is married to teacher and handball player Svein-Erik Bjerkrheim. Their son Jonatan Gaksør Bjerkrheim is also a handball player for Drammen HK.
She is a graduate of the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
In 2025 Goksør Bjerkrheim was a participant of The Farm Celebrity, a reality show on TV 2. Here she reached the final, but lost to former team mate Kjersti Grini.
Bibliography Susan Goksør Bjerkrheim and Rolf Nordberg: God i håndball. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 1999, ISBN 9788247805565.bokelskere.no: God i håndball, retrieved 26 December 2014
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EHF Profile DhDB profile