Vegard Høidalen

Vegard Høidalen
Personal information
Nickname The Viking[1][2]
Born (1971-05-10) 10 May 1971
Skien, Norway
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 94 kg (207 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Years Teammate Tours (points)
1995–2004,
2008-Present		 Jørre Kjemperud 107 (6461)
Previous teammates
Years Teammate Tours (points)
2004–2008 Kjell Arne Gøranson 26 (960)
Honours
Men's beach volleyball
Representing  Norway
World Championships
2001 Klagenfurt Beach
Swatch FIVB World Tour
1998 Berlin Beach
2000 Marseille Beach
2002 Klagenfurt Beach
2003 Espinho Beach
2004 Espinho Beach
2004 Stare Jablonki Beach
European Championships
1997 Rome Beach
1998 Rhodos Beach
2000 Bilbao Beach
2001 Jesolo Beach
2002 Basel Beach
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

  1. ↑ World Championships, Men 2001, FIVB, 2001
  2. ↑ European Championship Tour, CEV, 30 August 2003
  3. ↑ Høidalen utestengt inntil videre (Norwegian), VG, 3 July 2008


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