Serious rowing racing started in the coxless pair with Iztok Čop, when they won two junior world championships (1989, 1990).

That scenario repeated in WRC in France, when Slovenia was called to pick up bronze medal, and later (after detail photo finish examination) moved to 4th place.

Žvegelj then focused in working with his father in their design firm Basing in Jesenice, which moved to Bled in January 2006.

In 2015 he began running independent healing, revitalizing and learning center Revive Temple Bled to promote healthy life style and self-healing through proper nutrition, use of bio-energy and detoxification.

Žvegelj is a father of three sons Gal (17 March 1994), Maksim (25 September 1998) and Isak (3 July 2000) and lives in his hometown of Bled.