Torger Nergård

Medal record

Torger Nergård
Men's curling
Competitor for  Norway
Winter Olympics
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City
Silver 2010 Vancouver
World Championships
Silver 2010 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Bronze 2009 Moncton
Bronze 2008 Grand Forks
Bronze 2006 Lowell
European Championships
Gold 2010 Champéry
Gold 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Silver 2008 Örnsköldsvik
Silver 2007 Füssen
Bronze 2009 Aberdeen
Bronze 2002 Grindelwald

Torger Nergård (born 12 December 1974 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian curler.[1][2][3]

Nergård has curled professionally since 1987 and currently plays third for Team Thomas Ulsrud.[2] At Junior level, he played third at the 1991 and 1992 World Junior Curling Championships for Thomas Due, and skipped his own team in 1996. Nergård was the alternate for Pål Trulsen's team when Norway won the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2005 European Curling Championships.

With Team Ulsrud, Nergård played lead in 1997, second in 1998, and third in 2000, 2002–2003 and 2006–2010, the latter years saw the team winning six World Curling Tour events, four European Curling Championship medals (silver in 2007 and 2008; bronze in 2002 and 2009), three World Curling Championship bronze medals (2006, 2008 and 2009), and silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.[3][4][5]

Nergård competed as skip during the 2010 World Curling Championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, when Thomas Ulsrud had to return home for family reasons. Team Nergård won the silver medal having played some memorable matches, including a 9-8 win against Canada's Team Kevin Koe in the final round-robin game, which placed Norway first in the rankings (10-1), and a 9-7 win against Scotland's Team Warwick Smith in the semi-final.[6][7][8] On the strength of Norway's national team during the tournament, Nergård commented that "it wasn't easy coming into the championship without Tom [Ulsrud], but I think we have shown that we can play well. We are a small nation and there are not many curlers compared to the choice in Canada."[7] At the closing ceremony of the championship, Nergård was honoured by his fellow competitors with the 2010 Collie Campbell Memorial Award, a recognition given to an athlete who "by deed and action in the course of their performance, best exemplified the traditional curling values of skill, honesty, fair play, friendship and sportsmanship."[9]

Teams

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Events
1990-91 Thomas Due Torger Nergård Mads Rygg Johan Høstmælingen Krister Aanesen 1991 WJCC
1991-92 Thomas Due Torger Nergård Mads Rygg Johan Høstmælingen Thomas Ulsrud 1992 WJCC
1995-96 Torger Nergård Robert Kokkinn Magnus Utgård Jan Øivind Hewitt Kenneth Andersen 1996 WJCC
1997-98 Thomas Ulsrud Johan Høstmælingen Thomas Due Torger Nergård Rolf Andreas Lauten 1997 ECC
1997-98 Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Due Torger Nergård Johan Høstmælingen Rolf Andreas Lauten 1998 WCC
2000-01 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Johan Høstmælingen Flemming Davanger 2000 ECC
2001-02 Pål Trulsen Lars Vågberg Flemming Davanger Bent Ånund Ramsfjell Torger Nergård 2001 ECC
2002 OG
2002-03 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Johan Høstmælingen Thomas Løvold 2002 ECC, Bronze
2003-04 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Thomas Løvold 2003 ECC
Pål Trulsen Lars Vågberg Flemming Davanger Bent Ånund Ramsfjell Torger Nergård 2004 WCC
2005-06 Pål Trulsen Lars Vågberg Flemming Davanger Bent Ånund Ramsfjell Torger Nergård 2005 ECC
2006 OG
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Christoffer Svae 2006 WCC, Bronze
2006-07 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Christoffer Svae 2006 Baden Masters, Bronze
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Petter Moe 2006 ECC
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Thomas Løvold 2007 WCC
2007-08 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson 2007 Baden Masters
2007 Lucerne Curling Trophy, Champion
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Thomas Due 2007 ECC, Silver
2008 WCC, Bronze
2008-09 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson 2008 Baden Masters, Champion
2008 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup, Champion
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Thomas Due 2008 ECC, Silver
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Thomas Løvold 2009 WCC, Bronze
2009-10 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson 2009 Baden Masters, Silver
2009 Swiss Cup Basel, Champion
2009 Bern Open, Champion
2009 Lucerne Curling Trophy, Champion
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Thomas Løvold 2009 ECC, Bronze
2010 OG, Silver
Torger Nergård Thomas Løvold Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson 2010 WCC, Silver
2010-11 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson 2010 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup, Silver
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Markus Snove Hoiberg 2010 ECC, Gold

External links

References

  1. ^ "About Team Ulsrud". TeamUlsrud.com. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Torger Nergaard, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Torger Nergaard" (Profiles > Events). ASHAM World Curling Tour. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Results/Statistics" (Competitions > European Championships). European Curling Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Men's Gold Medal Game" (Curling Schedule > Results). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 27 February 2010.
  6. ^ "Capitol One World Men's Championship - Finals" (News). World Curling Federation. 11 April 2010.
  7. ^ a b Quoted from "Capitol One World Men's Championship - Day 6" (News). World Curling Federation. 8 April 2010.
  8. ^ "Capitol One World Men's Championship - Day 8" (News). World Curling Federation. 10 April 2010.
  9. ^ Quoted from "Torger Nergård wins Collie Campbell Memorial Award 2010". World Curling Federation. 11 April 2010.