Anette Norberg (born 12 November 1966) is a retired Swedish curler from

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. She and her team were the Olympic women's

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champions in 2006 and 2010. After winning the 2006 Women's Curling tournament in Turin over Mirjam Ott's Swiss team, she led her team to victory for gold over Cheryl Bernard's Canadian team in the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver; becoming the first skip in the history of curling to successfully defend an Olympic title. Her team that retired after the 2010 Olympics (although she herself continued until 2013) is regarded as one of the best women's curling teams in history, and she is often regarded as one of the best female skips in history, particularly after adding yet another world title in 2011 with a new younger team.

Career

Norberg started to curl at the age of ten. Norberg won seven

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(2005, 2006 and 2011). She also won silver medal at the

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and bronze medals in 1988, 1989, 1991 and 2003 World Championships. Except when she played at third for

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. After the retirement of her Olympic team, she put together a new team, with Cecilia Östlund, Sara Carlsson, and Liselotta Lennartsson and won her final third world championship gold medal. Norberg announced her decision to retire in April 2013. In 1989 she was inducted into the

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. In 2021, she and her Olympic team mates were inducted into the WCF Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Apart from curling, Norberg was chief actuary at Nordea, and led a division at Folksam. She is currently a consultant at

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. Norberg holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from

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. She has one daughter, curler Therese Westman, and one son, singer Tobias Westman. In September 2014, Norberg revealed that she had been diagnosed with

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in 2013, shortly after she retired. She has since completed treatment, which included chemotherapy and surgery to remove the tumor. In 2006, Norberg appeared in the " Hearts on Fire" music video for Swedish

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band

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. Norberg appeared as a contestant in Let's Dance 2013.

Teams

References

External links

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Anette Norberg
Swedish Olympic Committee (web archive)
Norberg forms new team
{{DEFAULTSORT:Norberg, Anette Living people 1966 births People from Härnösand Swedish female curlers Olympic curlers of Sweden Olympic medalists in curling Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics World curling champions European curling champions Swedish curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants Swedish actuaries