Rune Lorentsen (born 8 October 1961 in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

) is a Norwegian wheelchair curler. He won a silver medal at the

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jung Seo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olymp ...

Life

He started wheelchair curling in 2004. He was the skip when Norway won the gold at the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

in 2007, 2008, and 2017.Norway claim gold at World Wheelchair Curling Championships 2017
, World Wheelchair Curling Federation, March 11, 2017 Lorentsen has a

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

team gold from the European Championship in 1999, and bronze in 1997.

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at the Official Website for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver 1961 births Living people Norwegian male curlers Norwegian wheelchair curlers Paralympic wheelchair curlers of Norway Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling Paralympic silver medalists for Norway Wheelchair curlers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics World wheelchair curling champions Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Tromsø 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-curling-bio-stub