Vegard Høidalen
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| Nickname | The Viking[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1971 Skien, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vegard Høidalen (born 10 May 1971 in Skien) is a professional beach volleyball player from Norway, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Partnering Jørre Kjemperud he won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2001 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Høidalen was for a period in 2008 suspended from beach volleyball, because of three violations within an 18 months period, of 's requirements regarding athlete availability for out-of-competition testing, which includes failure to provide whereabouts information. Høidalen was critical to how the system works.[3]
References[]
- ^ World Championships, Men 2001, FIVB, 2001
- ^ European Championship Tour, CEV, 30 August 2003
- ^ Høidalen utestengt inntil videre (Norwegian), VG, 3 July 2008
External links[]
- Vegard Høidalen at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Vegard Høidalen at the FIVB beach volleyball players' database
- Vegard Hoidalen at the International Olympic Committee
- Vegard Høidalen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Norwegian beach volleyball players
- Men's beach volleyball players
- Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic beach volleyball players of Norway
- Sportspeople from Skien
- Norwegian sportspeople stubs
- European volleyball biography stubs