Pål Trulsen (born 19 April 1962 in

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curler from

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, and was the 2002 Olympic

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men's champion.

Career

Trulsen participated in both the and World Junior Championships, finishing both tournaments with 2-7 and 4-5 records respectively. However, after participating in the and

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, he was back at the juniors in where he won the silver medal, losing to

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in the final. It took Trulsen 9 more years to get back on the world stage, at the

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, where curling was a demonstration sport. At this event he won a silver medal, losing to

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in the final. After four

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tournaments in 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2000 in which he did not receive any medals, Trulsen won the bronze at the 2001 Ford World Curling Championship, defeating one of the games great teams of

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throwing 4th stones), in the bronze medal game. A year later, Trulsen became world-famous as he won the gold medal at the Olympics defeating Canada's Kevin Martin in the final. After reaching the top, Trulsen would later decline, winning silver at the

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, bronze at the

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and a fourth-place finish at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championship where he missed a fairly standard final draw against European arch rival and eventual winner Peja Lindholm in the semi finals. Trulsen finished in fourth place once again at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, losing to Canada's

in a 3–4 game, in a wild tournament where 6 teams entered the playoffs all but tied for 1st with exactly the same record at 8-3 leading to numerous tiebreakers and playoff games to sort out. Trulsen himself would require a tiebreak win over

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of the U.S to advance to the playoffs, and in losing to eventual winner Ferbey would miss a pretty easy final shot for victory, and shoot only 75% for the game vs 4th rock throw David Nedohin's 91%. Trulsen would finally win another tournament, when he won the 2005 European Championships against

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, setting him up as a favorite to defend his Olympic title. However, he failed to advance from the preliminaries in the

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after a combination of variable play and bad luck. A large part of his inability to add to his Olympic Gold in 2002 with another World or Olympic win was increasing knee problems from 2002 onwards. Prior to the

, it was reported that Trulsen was considering retiring from curling, largely to his growing knee pain. He finally did retire in January 2007. While remembered for his easy going and fun personality, he was also remembered as being an extremely fierce and hungry competitor in the heat of battle. Trulsen coached the Norwegian Olympic curling team at the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...

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, Canada.Norway seeks repeat upset of Canada
/ref> They made it to the final, this time Kevin Martin's Canadian team beating them for the gold. Trulsen has been the Coach of the European Continental Cup Team the past 2 years (2016 and 2017).

Awards

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: 2002

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trulsen, Pal 1962 births People from Frogn Sportspeople from Bærum Norwegian male curlers Olympic curlers of Norway Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway Living people Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Norway Continental Cup of Curling participants European curling champions