Flemming Davanger (born 1 April 1963 in

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) is a

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curler from

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Curling career

In his third

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in , Davanger, playing second

Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen (born 19 April 1962 in Drøbak, Norway) is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion. Career Trulsen participated in both the and World Junior Championships, finishing both tour ...

's Norwegian team picked up a silver medal, losing to

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's John Base in the final. In , Davanger played in his first

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playing third for

Tormod Andreassen Tormod Andreassen (born 29 March 1951) is a Norwegian curler and curling coach. Andreassen has skipped Norway at 3 World Championships (1986, 1993 and 1994), finishing sixth place each time. He skipped Norway the 1992 Winter Olympics when curl ...

, and they finished in sixth place. Later that year, the team picked up a bronze at the 1986 European Curling Championships. Davanger's next success would come at the

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, when curling was a demonstration sport. Davanger, now playing second for Andreassen would bring home the silver medal for Norway, much to the delight of his coach

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. After a couple of poor performances at the World Championships, Davanger moved to play second for his old junior skip Pål Trulsen. Their first World Championships was in 1999 when they finished in fifth. 2000 was no better, when they finished in 7th place. Finally in 2001 Norway got a break, picking up the bronze medal. They would then go on to win the gold medal at the

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Olympic results
followed by a silver at the World Championships that year. Since then, the team has had some success. They have finished no worse than fourth place at the Worlds or the European Championships. They picked up a bronze at the Worlds in 2003, a bronze at the European Championships in 2004 and a gold at the European Championships in 2005.

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* Norwegian male curlers Olympic curlers for Norway Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway Living people 1963 births Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Norway Continental Cup of Curling participants European curling champions Sportspeople from Bergen Sportspeople from Bærum {{Norway-curling-bio-stub