Magnus Trulsen Vågberg (born 23 December 1995) is a Norwegian curler from

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. He currently plays

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for the Steffen Walstad rink.

Career

Juniors

Vågberg competed for Norway in two

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, playing

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on Team

Magnus Ramsfjell Magnus Ramsfjell (born 17 July 1997 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian curler from Trondheim. Career Juniors Ramsfjell was the skip of the Norwegian junior men's team in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2016 to 2019. At the 201 ...

. At the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, the team finished with a 5-4 record, missing the playoffs. At the

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, the team had much more success, finishing the round robin with a 6-3 record, and then after losing to Scotland in the 3 vs. 4 game, they would defeat the Scots in a re-match to claim the bronze medal.

Men's

After juniors, Vågberg joined the Walstad rink. The team would make it to the finals of the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge, his first career Grand Slam event, losing to

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. Later in the season, the team would represent Norway at the

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, where they finished in fifth place. Vågberg played lead on Team Norway at the

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and

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. In 2018, his team just missed the playoffs with a 5–4 record and in 2019, they once again finished 5–4. Vågberg returned to the Worlds in 2021 at the

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where his team of skip Steffen Walstad, third Torger Nergård and second

Markus Høiberg Markus Snøve Høiberg (born 6 June 1991) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He was born in Oppdal Municipality. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as the alternate for the Norwegian men's team. He won a gold medal at the 2014 World ...

finished in eighth with a 7–6 record.

Personal life

He is the son of curlers Trine Trulsen Vågberg and Lars Vågberg. He represented the curling club Jar IL before joining

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References

External links

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at the

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(archived) 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Bærum Norwegian male curlers Curlers from Oslo Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Norway 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-curling-bio-stub