Dordi Nordby

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Dordi Nordby Curling
birthday April 8, 1964
place of birth Bærum
Career
nation NorwayNorway Norway
society Snarøen CC, Oslo
Playing position Skip
Playing hand right
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 3 × silver 6 × bronze
EM medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 6 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1988 Calgary
silver 1992 Albertville
World Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 1989 Milwaukee
gold 1990 Västerås
gold 1991 Winnipeg
bronze 1993 Geneva
bronze 1995 Brandon
bronze 1996 Hamilton
silver 1997 Bern
bronze 2000 Glasgow
bronze 2002 Bismark
silver 2004 Gävle
bronze 2005 paisley
European Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 1983 Västerås
bronze 1985 Grindelwald
bronze 1987 Oberstdorf
gold 1990 Lillehammer
bronze 1993 Leukerbad
bronze 1994 Sundsvall
gold 1999 Chamonix
silver 2000 Oberstdorf
bronze 2002 Grindelwald
bronze 2004 Sofia
last change: 03/31/2008

Dordi Agate Nordby (born April 8, 1964 in Bærum ) is a Norwegian curler . She is two-time world champion and two-time European champion.

She made her international debut in 1981. At the beginning of the 1990s she experienced the peak of her sporting career. At the 1990 World Cup in Västerås and the 1991 World Cup in Winnipeg , Nordby played in the position of skip and won the world title both times; she also became European champion in Lillehammer in 1990 . Nordby was not able to fully build on these successes, but held on to the top of the world and won numerous other medals. At the 1999 European Championships in Chamonix , she was European champion for the second time.

Nordby represented Norway at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary and at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville . The bronze or silver medals won do not have an official status, however, as curling was still a demonstration sport at that time. She finished fifth in Nagano in 1998 and seventh in Salt Lake City in 2002 .

Nordby is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

successes

  • World champion in 1990 and 1991
  • European champion in 1990 and 1999
  • 2nd place World Championship 1989, 1997, 2004
  • 2nd place European Championship 1990, 2000
  • 3rd place World Championship 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002
  • 3rd place European Championship 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2003

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