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Mol and Sørum are the Kings of Europe

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I attended Topvolley Norway volleyball high school, in Norway, and here developed a lot as a player. We still have not reached our full potential. We take one match at a time, and do as well as we can, and try to win every time. Their currently has 18 episodes. After the victory, they became the top-ranked duo in the world, a position they have kept to this day, despite placing third in the World Championship.

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Norway's Mol & Sorum: “They’re the No. 1 team in the world for a

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Mol and Sørum have played together since 2016. His parents introduced him to the sport. With a 2-0 sets victory, the Norwegians could once again lift a trophy over their heads after the mildly disappointing bronze medal in the World Championship earlier this year. Sorum has played for 12 years, more than half his life. They won the first set 21-12.

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Anders Mol

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But in the late-season King of the Court events, they finished seventh in Utrecht, sixth in Huntington Beach, and second in Antwerp and Waikiki. Jo Christian Weldingh grew up in Lillehammer, Norway, and lives in Oslo. The Norwegian duo has improved greatly in the last few years and their next big goal is the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Sorum lives in Lillestrom, a small suburb 20 minutes outside of Oslo. So far we like this format better, we had a good training week before, and it was a good tournament. This article originally appeared in the September 6, 2019, issue of The Norwegian American. They made some good blocks and reads and that was the difference-maker right there.

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Anders Mol

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I think the audience will love it and hope to see more of these series in the future. Sørum had 14 spikes; Mol made 11 spikes and six blocks. Together with Martin Olimstad he competed at the U18 European Championships in Molodetscho. Mol hails from Strandvik, a small community of 2,078 near the Eastern shore of Norway. Although Mol and Sorum knew each other before then, Top Volley Norge was the first time they practiced together, although Mol was a freshman at the time and Sorum a senior. I think we need time to process it, because we cannot really understand it right now.

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Anders Mol

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The Russians kept up with the Norwegians in the first half of the first set, but on the score 10-8, the Norwegians started playing the kind of beach volleyball that has made them the No. Mol and Sørum won the semifinal against the Polish duo Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak. Anders Mol Nationality Norwegian Age 21 Best results Gold Gstaad Major 2018 Itapema silver 2018 3 x European youth champion Biography I started playing volleyball from an early age, as my parents were both volleyball players. Skjelbred played four years of indoor at George Washington before transferring to Stetson for her graduate studies, Varga is currently a senior, and Helland-Hansen a junior. In the wake of the World Championship, they have gone from one triumph to another, winning three big World Series events in a row, including the Trial Olympics in Tokyo. Norway has now three titles as Jan Kvalheim and Björn Maaseide also prevailed in the second edition, in 1994. They won 4-star tournaments in Las Vegas, Itapema, Jinjiang, Ostrava und landed a second place in Warschau.

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Norway's Mol & Sorum: “They’re the No. 1 team in the world for a

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The four semifinalist tandems are all guaranteed in the main draw of the A1 Major Vienna and are set to compete in the Danube Island from August 1-5. In seven matches in the tournament, they lost only two sets. That was the difference in the end. We do a lot of work there, trying to grow the sport and make it even bigger than it is because it deserves a bigger audience than it has right now because it is really big in the Olympics, but after the Olympics, it is not the same as it should be, so we want to do something with that. That was a really nice vacation, to relax and see nature, not think about volleyball and just enjoy nature, really appreciate it.

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Mol and Sørum win European Champs

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Since end of 2016 Mol plays together with Alexanders brother,. Opinion KotC format I think the King of the Court format is a great opportunity to show our sport from a more spectacular and crowd pleasing point of view. Mol said their volleyball idols were Phil Dalhausser and Ricardo Santos. Further highlights of the two cousins was a 9 th place at a 5-star- event of the world series in and a third place at a 2-star-event in. I think we can still play better and that is what we are aiming for. When we first heard about it we prayed we would get invited. After that, I played for a year in Belgium and then decided to go 100 % beach.

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Mol and Sørum win European Champs

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Despite this success, we want to improve. The last time the Olympics were held in Tokyo, Norway came home without medals. After graduating, Mol and Sorum initially partnered with others, Mol with his cousin Mathias Berntsen, and Sorum with Morten Kvamsdal. Then they also won the 5-star tournament in Vienna and climbed to the top of the world ranking after winning 19 times in a row. We also got a lot of cool shots with the waterfall, we went to Yosemite waterfalls, and really enjoyed ourselves.

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King of the Court

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Travelling the world with so many awesome people and playing the sport I love is just awesome. Trevor Crabb and partner Tri Bourne lost to the Norwegians in the Las Vegas semifinals. His four siblings are also active in volleyball and beach volleyball today. Mol, 21, and Sørum, 22, topped the podium of the 26 th edition of the continental tournament after a straight-set 21-17, 21-13 victory over Latvians Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins, the European champions of 2015, in the gold medal match. .

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