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Sander Rølvåg
Sander Olav Rølvåg (born 4 August 1990 in Sandnessjøen, Norway) is a Norwegian curling, curler from Oslo. Career Rølvåg represented Norway as a skip at the biennal European Youth Olympic Festival in 2009, winning bronze. In 2011 he was a part of the team that secured a bronze medal at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships. Rølvåg has represented Norway at the European Curling Championships as an alternate on two occasions, in the 2014 European Curling Championships and the 2015 European Curling Championships. In 2015 he won the gold medal at the 2015 Winter Universiade and won the inaugural 2015 World Mixed Curling Championship. Honours 2012 World Junior Curling Championships Sportsmanship Award Personal life Rølvåg is employed as a curling instructor, icemaker and commentator.2017 Ford Worlds Media Guide: Team Norway References General *All placings and results are sourced by the World Curling Federation's searchable results database: External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The goal is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. Players induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
