Vegard Høidalen
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Nickname | The Viking[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Skien, Norway | 10 May 1971|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: 3 September 2008 |
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 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.[3]
References
- ↑ World Championships, Men 2001, FIVB, 2001
- ↑ European Championship Tour, CEV, 30 August 2003
- ↑ Høidalen utestengt inntil videre (Norwegian), VG, 3 July 2008
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