HÃ¥vard Vad Petersson

Håvard Vad Petersson ( born January 5, 1984 in Oslo) is a Norwegian curler.

Petersson moved with one year of Kirkenes, before he returned eight years later to his hometown. First, he held different sports, but ultimately opted for curling. There, the Norwegians now plays on the position of the lead, his club team is the Snarøen Curling Club. Since 2007 he takes part for the Norwegian national team at the major events, previously he was a member of the junior national teams have been.

Back in 2002, he took a lead part in common with the Norwegian team at the Junior B World Cup, where the team was able to win all the games and so the tournament. A year later, she defended the title once again undefeated. In the same year he qualified for the A- Junior World Championships, where the team was eliminated in the semifinals and the match for third place lost, so that it is placed on the fourth. At the next World Youth Championship a year later they also missed out on the podium, the team slipped under his leadership as Skip ( Captain) even from the sixth. Again, a year later, this time Petersson was the Second, it improved at least one rank to fifth place.

Then ended the period in which Petersson was launched as a junior, instead he took two years before he was nominated for the European Championship 2007 on his first major event in the adult area. There, his team won the Scottish behind, they were inferior in the final with 3:5, the silver medal. In that tournament, the Norwegian as well as in the next starred again as a lead. After the EM- Silver Medal, the National team won the following year, and the bronze medal at the World Championships. In the same year he defended silver at the European Championships.

The Curling Championship 2009 in Aberdeen Petersson won the bronze medal in the team of Skip Thomas Ulsrud. The Round Robin had been completed, the team first, but subsequently lost the Page playoff game against Sweden and the semi-final against Scotland.

With the same team he won the silver medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. In the semifinals they defeated it, the Swiss team to Markus Eggler Skip to 7:5. However, in the final game they lost the Canadian team with skip Kevin Martin with 3:6.

Team members

  • Torger Nergård
  • Christoffer SvÄ
  • Thomas Due
  • Thomas Ulsrud
Winter Olympic Games Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics 2008 World Men's Curling Championship European Curling Championships 2007 European Curling Championships 2008 European Curling Championships 2009 European Curling Championships 2010 European Curling Championships Kevin Martin (Curler) Christoffer Svae
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