Jan Kvalheim

As of August 30, 2011

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

Career

Volleyball

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

Beach volleyball

1991 Kvalheim formed a permanent duo with his longtime partner Bjørn Maaseide. Two years later, Kvalheim / Maaseide competed at the first European Championship and were subject only in the final the Frenchman Jodard / Penigaud. The next European Championship tournament in Almería could then decide in the final against the Spanish duo Javier Bosma and Santiago Aguilera for the Norwegians. In addition, they won in the first several open tournaments in Miami, Marseille and Berlin. 1994/95 they were the FIVB tour champions. At the World Series in 1996, they missed only two tournaments in the top ten. In the first Olympic tournament they had to Jörg Ahmann and Axel Hager defeated before they even survived a few games in the losers bracket.

1997 in Los Angeles, she arrived at the first World Cup on 17th place in the same year they lost the final of the European Championships in Riccione against their compatriots Vegard Hoidalen and JORRE André Kjemperud. 1998 in Rhodes, they repeated the result after a defeat against the Swiss brothers Martin and Paul Laciga. While they never got in the World Cup 1999 on the 25th place, they won third in the European Championships in Palma their next medal, which they were five times at the European Championships on the podium. In her second Olympic participation in 2000 in Sydney they missed the knockout stages and occupied space 19 Then they parted ways. Kvalheim played the following year a few tournaments with Bard -Inge Pettersen.