Eigil Ramsfjell (born 17 March 1955 in Oslo) is a Norwegian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. Many consider him one of the pioneers in modern curling. He received a bronze medal as skip at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.[1] He was skip on the gold winning team when curling was a demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.[2]
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| Born | 17 March 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Snarøen CC, Oslo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 15 (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Championship appearances | 11 (1979, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic appearances | 2 (1988, 1998) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ramsfjell is a three-time world champion, and has also received silver and bronze medals at the world championships. He was inducted into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame in 2014.
His son, Magnus followed in his footsteps, and is a former World Junior bronze medalist; his daughter Maia is also a curler, Norwegian champion.[3]
References edit
- ^ "1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Curling" Archived 25 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 15 March 2008)
- ^ "Eigil Ramsfjell". olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ "Upsets, triumphs and redemption at national championships | News". Curling World Cup. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
External links edit
- Eigil Ramsfjell at World Curling
- Eigil Ramsfjell at Olympics.com
- Eigil Ramsfjell at Olympedia
- Video: 1991 World Men's Curling Championship, round robin, Canada (Kevin Martin) - Norway (Eigil Ramsfjell) on YouTube
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