Eigil Ramsfjell
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Born | 17 March 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Curling club | Snarøen CC, Oslo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World Championship appearances | 15 (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Championship appearances | 11 (, , , , , 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olympic appearances | 1 (1998) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eigil Ramsfjell (born 17 March 1955 in Oslo) is a Norwegian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. Many consider him one of the pioneers in modern curling. He received a bronze medal as skip at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.[1] He was skip on the gold winning team when curling was a demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.[2]
Ramsfjell is a three-time world champion, and has also received silver and bronze medals at the world championships.
His son, Magnus followed in his footsteps, and is a former World Junior bronze medalist.[3]
References[]
- ^ "1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Curling" Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on March 15, 2008)
- ^ "Eigil Ramsfjell". olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ https://www.curlingworldcup.com/news/upsets-triumphs-and-redemption-in-national-championships
External links[]
- Eigil Ramsfjell at World Curling Federation
- Eigil Ramsfjell at Olympics.com
- Eigil Ramsfjell at Olympedia
- Video: 1991 World Men's Curling Championship, round robin, Canada (Kevin Martin) - Norway (Eigil Ramsfjell) on YouTube
Categories:
- Living people
- 1955 births
- Sportspeople from Oslo
- Norwegian male curlers
- Olympic curlers of Norway
- Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- World curling champions
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- European curling champions
- Norwegian Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Norwegian curling biography stubs