- Lars Vågberg
Lars Vågberg (born
June 30 ,1967 inSollefteå ,Sweden ) is a Norwegian curler fromBærum .Vågberg began his international curling career in
Sweden . In his first international tournament, he was the secondMikael Hasselborg 's 1990European Curling Championships winning team. With Hasselborg, he would finish 7th at theWorld Curling Championships in 1992 and a bronze medal at the 1994 European Championships.By 1997 Vågberg had moved to Norway. The 1997 World Championships would be the first for Vågberg as a Norwegian, and he played third for
Pål Trulsen . While they finished 7th that year, the team would later go on to win two bronze medals (2001, 2003) and a silver (2002) at the Worlds. Most notably however was their victory at the2002 Winter Olympics when they defeatedCanada s' Kevin Martin in the gold medal final. The team added to their success with their first gold medal at the European Championships in 2005.
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