Frode Loftesnes

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Frode Loftesnes (born July 21, 1973 in Bergen ) is a former Norwegian basketball player .

Life

Loftesnes left his home country in 1993 to combine competitive sports and studies in the United States . He did this at Rollins College , Florida . He played for Rollins' basketball team in the second NCAA division until 1997 . The Norwegian then hit a professional career, played in the 1997/98 season for the Solna Vikings in Sweden and 1998/99 for the UBC Mattersburg in Austria .

In 1999 the 2.08 meter tall indoor player moved from the Austrian to the German Bundesliga to TSK Universa Bamberg . In Bamberg he was a top performer with 11.1 points per encounter, but initially left the team again after a year and was in the service of the Greek second division Larissa, then the Italian A2 club Popolare Ragusa, before he went to the 2000/01 season Bamberg returned and averaged 5.8 points per game by the end of the 2000/01 game year.

Loftesnes continued his career in France , trained in the fall of 2001 with the French first division side Cholet Basket , but received no contract and moved to the second division side Besançon Basket, where he played for a short time before he played for the Ulriken Eagles in his home country Norway. He then joined the Frøya Ambassadors in Norway. In the 2003/04 season he achieved an average of 22.2 points and 12.7 rebounds per encounter and was named Center of the Year in the Norwegian league by the basketball news provider eurobasket.com . In the summer of 2004 and 2005, Norwegian newspapers reported that the Frøya Ambassadors owed Loftesnes tens of thousands of crowns due to economic difficulties.

National team

Loftesnes took part in the European Championship elimination rounds with Norway's national team.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Frode Loftesnes Basketball Player Profile, Froya Basket Laksevag, News, BLNO stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Basketball Bundesliga becomes more international - BCJ Tigers start in Lich. September 18, 1999, accessed on June 23, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Archive season 1999/2000 GHP Bamberg. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ RP ONLINE: According to the new interpretation of the foreigner regulation: The withdrawals and additions of the basketball league. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Archive season 2000/2001 GHP Bamberg. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Proff på open. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Besançon Historical Roster | Proballers. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ NRK: Loftesnes spiller. December 27, 2001, accessed on June 23, 2019 (nb-NO).
  9. ↑ Bronse gir Frøya. February 17, 2003, accessed June 23, 2019 (Norwegian).
  10. ↑ Frøya skylder Loftesnes over 100,000 kroner. June 29, 2004, Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Norwegian).
  11. ↑ Basket-ess truer med å legge opp. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Norwegian).
  12. ↑ Frode Loftesnes profile, European Championship for Men 2001. Accessed June 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Loftesnes, Frode
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen (Norway)