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| Nickname | The Viking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-05-10) 10 May 1971 (age 53) 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 former professional beach volleyball player from Norway who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Partnering with 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-month period of Antidoping Norge'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.
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 FIVB.com
- Vegard Hoidalen at Olympics.com
- 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 for Norway
- Sportspeople from Skien
- Norwegian sportspeople stubs
- European volleyball biography stubs