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One of the world’s most meritorious curling players.
Yes, Anette Norberg has an incredible career to look back on.
– It’s hard to really take it in, she says to Sportbibeln.
Annette Norberg, 56, has a long track record from his curling career. She has two Olympic gold medals from Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010. Nine WC medals, three of which are gold, and twelve EC medals, of which seven(!) are gold. Norberg has also won nine SM golds and was awarded the Victoria scholarship.
Best memory
When Anette Norberg looks back on her career, she does so with great pride.
– And you can tell that it was very long! It didn’t always go well either, it went well in the beginning, then it didn’t go well at all for a period, but then it went very well at the end.
– So I played my first European championship as a senior in 1984 and finished with a WC gold in 2011, that’s quite a few years, Norberg tells Sportbibeln.
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Is there anything you regret from your career?
– No. I’m generally the kind of person who thinks it’s not a good idea to regret things, because you can’t do anything about it, says Anette, who finds it difficult to choose just one favorite memory from her career. You can understand why.
– You can’t compare these two – both the actual experience with the Olympics in Turin and the Olympics in Vancouver – and those golds. It is by far the thing that remains in the memory, and it is also the thing that has influenced my life the most.
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What do you remember most clearly from those championships?
– What sticks on the retina when we talk about Turin is that last stone, and that we decided that match on the last stone, and there aren’t that many opportunities you get.
– What is memorable about Vancouver was that we knew it was the point, that it was the last. Even if we hadn’t said it to each other, we probably all knew that it was the last thing we did together, and it was a trip of, well… eight-ten years that we had done together. To end it by winning gold against Canada, in Canada, where over 90% of all the curlers in the world are located. Yes, it was also big, but in a slightly different way, says Norberg.
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In 2021, Anette Norberg was elected, together with Team Anette Norberg consisting of her teammates Eva Lund, Catherine Lindahl and Anna Le Moine (formerly Svärd), into curling’s Hall of Fame.
– It’s always an honor, of course, to become one, says Norberg.
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The biggest award
But it felt greater to be awarded the Victoria scholarship.
– For me, for curling, and for us as a team, I would probably like to think that it is the finest award. Now I got it personally, but I choose to see it as recognition for us as a team, of course. But also for the sport as a whole, because it is still a small sport, and when you read the other names that have received the Victoria scholarship, it feels strange to be one of them.
The 56-year-old is one of the world’s most meritorious curling players of all time(!). How does it really feel to be one of the world’s best at something?
– It’s awesome, of course. It is a career that I am very proud to have achieved as much as I have. They’re not something you normally think about, but every time someone says it or you say it yourself, it feels a little… a little strange. It’s hard to really take it in. But I am very proud, says Anette Norberg.
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