Bent Ånund Ramsfjell

Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
birthday	November 30, 1967
place of birth	Oslo
Career
nation	Norway
society	Stabekk CC
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	unknown
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City World Curling Championship bronze 2001 Lausanne silver 2002 Bismarck bronze 2003 Winnipeg European Curling Championship silver 1989 Engelberg bronze 2004 Sofia gold 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
last change: March 1, 2010

Bent Ånund Ramsfjell (born November 30, 1967 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian curler and Olympic champion .

In 1989 Ramsfjell took part in the Junior World Championships, but could not qualify for the semi-finals and finished fifth. In the same year he won the silver medal at the European Curling Championships in Engelberg .

Ramsfjell took part in the World Championships in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004 and 2005, but got nothing. He won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Lausanne . A year later, at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , the Norwegian team beat the favorite Canadians in the final with Skip Kevin Martin and Ramsfjell became Olympic champions.

This was followed by a second place at the 2002 World Cup in Bismarck , a third place at the 2003 World Cup in Winnipeg and a third place at the 2004 European Championship in Sofia . At the 2005 European Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the Norwegians defeated the Swedish team with Skip Peter Lindholm and Ramsfjell became European champions in the final .

In 2006 Ramsfjell took part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . The team took fifth place.

Web links

• Bent Ånund Ramsfjell on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Bent Ånund Ramsfjell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )