Jan Kvalheim

Jan Kvalheim
Photo: Jarle Vines ( Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 3.0 )
portrait
birthday	5th February 1963
place of birth	Skien, Norway
size	2.00 m
Indoor volleyball
societies
1984-1989 1989-1992 1994	Arago de Sète AS Cannes Sidis Baker Falconara
National team
125 missions	A national team
successes
French cup winner with Sète twice French champion with Cannes
beach volleyball
partner	1991–2000 Bjørn Maaseide 2001 Bard-Inge Pettersen
successes
1993 - Vice European Champion 1994 - European Champion 1994/95 - FIVB Tour Champion 1997 - Vice European Champion 1998 - Vice European Champion 1999 - third place in the European Championship
As of August 30, 2011

Jan Kvalheim (born February 5, 1963 in Skien ) is a former Norwegian volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

volleyball

Kvalheim played for Arago de Sète from 1984 to 1989 and won the French Cup with the club. He then moved to AS Cannes within France and was twice national champion until 1992. In 1994 he also played in Italy with Sidis Baker Falconara .

beach volleyball

In 1991 Kvalheim formed a solid duo with his long-term partner Bjørn Maaseide . Two years later, Kvalheim / Maaseide competed in the first European championship and were only subject to the French Jodard / Penigaud in the final . The Norwegians won the next European Championship tournament in Almería in the final against the Spanish duo Javier Bosma and Santiago Aguilera . They also won several open tournaments in Miami , Marseille and Berlin in the first few years . In 1994/95 they were the FIVB Tour Champions. In the 1996 World Series, they only missed the top ten in two tournaments. In the first Olympic tournament , they had to admit defeat to Jörg Ahmann and Axel Hager before they survived a few more games in the losing round.

1997 in Los Angeles they came in 17th place at the first world championship. In the same year they lost the final of the European championship in Riccione against their compatriots Vegard Høidalen and Jørre André Kjemperud . In 1998 in Rhodes they repeated the result after losing to the Swiss brothers Martin and Paul Laciga . While they did not get past 25th place at the 1999 World Cup , they won their next medal as third at the European Championships in Palma , with which they stood on the podium five times at European Championships . In their second Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , they missed the last sixteen and finished in 19th place. They then parted ways. In the following year Kvalheim played a few more tournaments with Bard-Inge Pettersen .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Jan Kvalheim in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )