Skjerns stregveteran Bjarte Myrhol has had to cancel the european championship for Norway due to illness.

the Captain of the Norwegian herrelandshold in handball, Bjarte Myrhol, have reported from to January's european championship finals.

It shall notify The Norwegian Håndboldforbund Wednesday on its website.

The 37-year-old stregspiller, who at club level tørner out for Skjern, was in november surgery for a hole in the intestine, and it is a relapse in relation to the illness, which has forced him to a championship-cancellation.

'I got a relapse 23. december and spent the day at the hospital. As a result of tilbagefaldet should I have surgery 2. January in Herning. Unfortunately, this means goodbye to EM for me,' says Bjarte Myrhol, who is counted among the world's best stregspillere, in a press release.

His place in the squad is taken over by Tom Kåre Nikolaisen from Kolstad.

Norway must play its three opening european championship group stage matches on home ground in Trondheim, where the opponents are France, Portugal and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

the Norwegians was the number two at the WORLD cup for a small years of time ago after finalenederlag to Denmark in Herning.