Vegard Høidalen is a professional beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

 player from Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Partnering Jørre Kjemperud

Jørre Kjemperud

Jørre Kjemperud is a beach volleyball player from Norway.-Volleyball:Kjemperud started playing volleyball when he was 17 – 18 years old...

 he won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2001 Beach Volleyball World Championships

2001 Beach Volleyball World Championships

These page shows the results of the III Beach Volleybal World Championships, held from August 1 to August 4, 2001 in Klagenfurt, Austria. It was the third official edition of this event, after ten unofficial championships all held in Rio de Janeiro, and the second to be organized in Europe.-Final...

 in Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Høidalen was for a period in 2008 suspended from beach volleyball, because of three violations within an 18 months 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.

External links

• Vegard Høidalen - Profile at the Beach Volleyball Database
  Beach Volleyball Database
  The Beach Volleyball Database is an online website that holds extensive information about international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history. News are frequently updated, and the site has results for continental and international tournaments...