Gudrun Høie
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| Born | 13 July 1970 Kristiansund, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gudrun Anette Høie (born 13 July 1970) is a Norwegian sport wrestler from Kristiansund.
She won a gold medal in the FILA Wrestling World Championships in 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1998, a silver medal in 1991, and bronze in 1999. She was European champion in sumo wrestling in 1998. She has won the National Championships nine times.[1]
She became known in Norway, when she, as the first in Norway, was suspended from her sport for not having revealed her whereabouts to the national anti-doping agency. The suspension lasted from April to November 2007, and destroyed her form for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]
She stands 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall. Outside of sport, she works as a physician in Kristiansund.[2] She represented the club Kristiansund AK.[1]
References
- ^ a b Bryhn, Rolf. "Gudrun Høie". In Henriksen, Petter (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
- ^ a b Sivertsen, Øyvind Stople (18 November 2007). "Form i fritt fall". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 36.