Bjørn Maaseide
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| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 7, 1968 Stavanger, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bjørn Maaseide (born 7 March 1968, in Stavanger) is a former beach volleyball player from Norway, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996, 2000 and 2004. Alongside Jan Kvalheim he won several medals at the European Championships in the 1990s. He is the brother of professional female beach volleyball player Kathrine Maaseide. Other playing partners are Iver Horrem and Vegard Høidalen.[1][2]
In 2007, however, Maaseide returned to the sand with Horrem. At the World Championships in Gstaad, they were knocked out in the first main round for the third time in a row, this time against the Brazilians Franco/Cunha. After the Norwegian duo missed out on the qualification they were aiming for at the Beijing Olympics, Maaseide turned his attention to the next World Championships. His commitment helped bring this event to his hometown of Stavanger, where a World Tour tournament had already been held for ten years.[3]
References
- ^ Profile Archived May 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at the Beach Volleyball Database
- ^ History Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at the Beach Volleyball Database
- ^ "VM i 2009 til Stavanger - Stavanger Aftenblad". web.archive.org. 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
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- Bjorn Maaseide at the International Olympic Committee
- Bjørn Maaseide at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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