Markus Høiberg
Markus Høiberg 
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| birthday | 6th June 1991 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Oppdal , Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Oppdal CK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Third / Alternate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: February 27, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Markus Snøve Høiberg (born June 6, 1991 in Oppdal ) is a Norwegian curler .
Career
Høiberg first played internationally at the 2007 Junior World Championships as the lead of the Norwegian team. Until 2012 he took part in this competition in different positions every year. He achieved his best result at the Junior World Championship in 2011 when he won the bronze medal in third under Skip Steffen Mellemseter . In 2014 he led the Norwegian team as Skip and finished fourth.
For adults, Høiberg first played at the 2010 European Championships . As a substitute for the Norwegian team under Skip Thomas Ulsrud , he won the gold medal. At his second European Championship in 2013 , he won the silver medal again as a substitute player.
At his first World Cup in 2011 , he was a substitute as in the following years. In 2014 he became world champion with the team skipped by Thomas Ulsrud and in 2015 he won the silver medal. At the 2017 World Cup he played third under Steffen Walstad ; the Norwegians came in eighth place.
Høiberg was a substitute for the Norwegian men's team at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics , but could not win a medal (2014: fifth place; 2018: sixth place).
At the 2018 World Cup , he moved into the playoffs with the team led by Steffen Walstad, but lost the qualifying game against South Korea (Skip: Kim Chang-min ) and came in fifth.
Web links
- Markus Høiberg on Worldcurling.org (English)
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| SURNAME | Høiberg, Markus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Høiberg, Markus Snøve (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1991 |