Magnus Nedregotten
| Magnus Nedregotten | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 October 1990 Stavanger, Norway |
| Team | |
| Curling club | Oppdal CK, Oppdal, NOR |
| Skip | Steffen Walstad |
| Third | Magnus Nedregotten |
| Second | Mathias Brænden |
| Lead | Magnus Vågberg |
| Alternate | Andreas Hårstad |
| Mixed doubles partner | Kristin Skaslien |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Norway |
| World Championship appearances | 2 (2017, 2018) |
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 8 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024) |
| European Championship appearances | 4 (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) |
| Olympic appearances | 2 (2018, 2022) |
Medal record | |
Magnus Victor Nedregotten (born 24 October 1990) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo.[1] He currently plays third on Team Steffen Walstad.[2]
Career
[edit]Juniors
[edit]Nedregotten represented Norway in three World Junior Curling Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships he played lead for the Steffen Mellemseter. The team would finish in 5th place. At the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships, he played second for the team which would win a bronze medal. At the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships, Nedregotten played third for the Norwegian team, skipped by Markus Snøve Høiberg. The team would finish 4th.
Nedregotten would play on the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences team at both the 2013 and 2015 Winter Universiade, playing second in both events. In 2013, the team skipped by Høiberg finished 4th; in 2015, the team (skipped by Walstad) won the gold medal.
Mixed doubles
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Nedregotten would find much of his success in mixed team and mixed doubles curling. In mixed doubles, Nedregotten and partner Kristin Moen Skaslien have represented Norway in the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships. The pair have finished 4th, 5th, 3rd, 9th, 5th and 9th respectively. They represented Norway in the mixed doubles tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics. They lost the bronze medal game against the Olympic Athletes from Russia, but due to a positive testing of meldonium from Alexander Krushelnitskiy, their bronze medals were stripped and given to Nedregotten and Skaslien.[3]
Nedregotten and Skaslien won the second leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, defeating Switzerland's Jenny Perret and Martin Rios in the final. The pair also won the Grand Final of the Curling World Cup, defeating Canada's Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres in the final.
Mixed curling
[edit]Nedregotten has also represented Norway at the European Mixed Curling Championship, playing second for Walstad in both events. At the 2012 European Mixed Curling Championship, the team finished 5th, and at the 2014 European Mixed Curling Championship, the team brought back a silver medal for Norway.
Men's
[edit]Nedregotten won the Norwegian men's championship in 2016 with Høiberg skipping, though the team was not chosen to represent Norway at the World Championships. Walstad took over as skip of the team in 2016. Following a bronze medal performance at the 2017 Winter Universiade, the team qualified for the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship, where they finished 8th. The team also qualified for the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, finishing in 5th place. The team also represented Norway at the 2018 European Curling Championships, finishing in 5th place.
Personal life
[edit]Nedregotten was also a competitive skier. He attended the Norway School of Sports Sciences.[4]
He is married to his mixed doubles partner Kristin Skaslien.
References
[edit]- ^ "Magnus NEDREGOTTEN Biography, Olympic Medals, Records and Age". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023.
- ^ "NEDREGOTTEN Magnus Victor - Biographie". Data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Russian curler stripped of Winter Olympics medal after admitting doping". The Guardian. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Curling | Athlete Profile: Magnus NEDREGOTTEN". Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
External links
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Norwegian male curlers
- Curlers from Oslo
- Sportspeople from Stavanger
- Norwegian male alpine skiers
- Winter World University Games medalists in curling
- Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic curlers for Norway
- Olympic silver medalists for Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Norway
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Norway
- Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
- Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade
- Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
- 21st-century Norwegian people