Snorre Pedersen (born 3 July 1972) is a
Norwegian skeleton racer who competed from 1997 to 2005. He finished 14th in the men's skeleton event at the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...
in
Salt Lake City. He also competed in the
luge
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at the
1992 Winter Olympics
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, athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women)
, events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines)
, opening = 8 February 1992
, closing = 23 February 1992
, opened_by = President François Mitterrand
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.
Pedersen is the husband and coach of
Swiss
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* Swiss people
Places
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* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
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*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
skeleton racer
Maya, having first met at the
1999 FIBT World Championships in
Altenberg, Germany. They were married in 2000 and have two children the oldest born in 2004.The youngest was born in 2008.
He also is a
carpenter
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and owns a
sporting goods store in
Lillehammer, Norway. Additionally, Pedersen designed a skeleton sled for his wife which she used to win the women's skeleton
FIBT World Championship event at
Calgary
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in
2001
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References
External links
2002 men's skeleton resultsFIBT profile
1972 births
Living people
Norwegian male skeleton racers
Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic skeleton racers for Norway
Norwegian male lugers
Olympic lugers for Norway
Lugers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
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