Elsa Katrine Hattestad (née Solberg; born 18 April 1966) is a retired Norwegian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.

Hattestad made her international debut at the 1981 European Junior Championships, finishing fifth.

By the beginning of the 1990s, Hattestad was one of the best female javelin throwers in the world.

In 1993, she won her first major international title, the World Championships in Stuttgart as well as the IAAF Golden Four.

[2] In her youth, she was a promising handball player in her country, playing for a club in the second tier of the Norwegian league system.