Vegard Høidalen (born 10 May 1971 in
Skien
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) is a former professional
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
player from
Norway
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who twice represented his native country at the
Summer Olympics
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: 2000 and 2004. Partnering with
Jørre Kjemperud, he won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the
2001 Beach Volleyball World Championships in
Klagenfurt,
Austria
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.
Høidalen was for a period in 2008 suspended from beach volleyball, because of three violations within an 18-month 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.
Høidalen utestengt inntil videre
( Norwegian), VG, 3 July 2008
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1971 births
Living people
Norwegian beach volleyball players
Men's beach volleyball players
Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic beach volleyball players for Norway
Sportspeople from Skien
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