Svein Enok Nørstebø (born February 26, 1972) is a former Norwegian

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player. He was born in

Korsvegen Korsvegen is a village in Melhus Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about south of the city of Trondheim, just west of the lake Benna. The village has a population (2024) of 590 and a population density of . History ...

, Norway. He was active at professional level from 1988 until 2004. Nørstebø started with ice hockey as a child at the end of the 1970s for Leik in Melhus. Went in 1988 to

Trondheim IK The Trondheim Black Panthers, founded 18 June 1986 as Trondheim Ishockeyklubb, is a defunct ice hockey club which was based in Trondheim, Norway. They played their home games in Leangen Ishall and were members of the highest ice hockey league in N ...

(TIK) where he had his debut game against Vålerenga. Nørstebø has played over 700 official matches for both club- and national team. After his debut for TIK in 1988 he has played for

Lillehammer IK Lillehammer Ishockeyklubb is an ice hockey club based in Lillehammer, Norway and playing in the EliteHockey Ligaen (EHL). Home games are played in Eidsiva Arena (Kristins Hall), and occasionally in Håkons Hall. History Founded on 2 Novembe ...

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(

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) and Linköpings (

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). In all he has nine seasons at Trondheim Ishockeyklubb. He participated in the

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for Norway in 1994 at Lillehammer. Nørstebø has played 77 national team matches, and received Gullklokka after passed 75. He became awarded

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in 1999 an honor which is awarded to the best ice hockey player on both club and national teams. In 2010 he did short comeback for Rosenborg to help the club up in

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and thereby get

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on the Norwegian map of hockey again.

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* 1972 births Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim players Lillehammer IK players Linköping HC players Living people Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics Norwegian ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Norway People from Sør-Trøndelag Rosenborg IHK players Trondheim Black Panthers players Sportspeople from Trøndelag {{Norway-icehockey-bio-stub