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Søre Ål IL
Søre Ål Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian Nordic skiing, skiing club from Søre Ål, Lillehammer, Norway. The club was founded in 1944. Cross-country skiers Brit Pettersen Tofte and Thea Krokan Murud represented the club, so did the Nordic combined skiers Odd Arne Engh and Mikko Kokslien as well as the ski jumper Robert Johansson (ski jumper), Robert Johansson. References External links * Sport in Lillehammer Sports clubs and teams established in 1944 1944 establishments in Norway Ski jumping clubs in Norway {{skijumping-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Skiing
Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel. Recreational disciplines include cross-country skiing and Telemark skiing. Olympic events are competitive cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined — an event combining cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships host these sports every odd-numbered year, but there are also separate championships in other events, such as Telemark skiing and ski flying. Biathlon combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, but is not included as a Nordic discipline under the rules of the International Ski Federation (FIS). Instead, it comes under the jurisdiction of the International Biathlon Union. The biomechanics of competitive cross-country skiing and ski jumping have been the subject of serious st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municipality include Fåberg, Hunderfossen, Jørstadmoen, Vingnes, and Vingrom. The municipality is the 211th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Lillehammer is the 39th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 28,560. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 6.4% over the previous 10-year period. The town of Lillehammer is the largest urban centre in the municipality. It lies in the central part of the municipality and it is surrounded by more rural areas. The town centre is a late nineteenth-century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. Lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Pettersen Tofte
Brit most commonly refers to: * Briton, a British person Brit, Brits or BRIT may also refer to: People Nicknames * Brit Hume (born 1943), American TV journalist * Brit Selby (born 1945), Canadian ice-hockey player * Brit Smith (born 1985), American actress, model, singer, and songwriter Given names * Brit Andresen, Norwegian-born Australian architect * Brit Bildøen (born 1962), Norwegian poet, novelist, essayist, children's writer and literary critic * Brit Hoel (born 1942), Norwegian politician * Brit Marling (born 1982), American writer, producer, director and actress * Brit McRoberts (born 1957), Canadian retired middle-distance runner * Brit Morgan (born 1987), American film and television actress * Brit Pettersen (born 1961), Norwegian former cross-country skier * Brit Sandaune (born 1972), Norwegian soccer player and pre-school teacher * Brit Solli (born 1959), Norwegian archaeologist * Brit Stakston (born 1961), Swedish-Norwegian writer, public speaker and media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Krokan Murud
Thea Krokan Murud (born 6 June 1994) is a Norwegian cross-country skier. She participated at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival, winning one silver medal in the 7.5 kilometres; then at the 2012 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, the 2016 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships (U23) and finally at the 2017 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships (U23), where she took the silver medal in the sprint. She made her World Cup debut in March 2015 in Drammen, finishing in 49th place in the sprint prologue. She collected her first World Cup points in the March 2017 Drammen sprint, and reached the top 10 for the first time on home ground in December 2017 in Lillehammer (10 kilometres). She represents the sports club Søre Ål IL. As an athlete she raced for Lillehammer IF Lillehammer Idrettforening is a Norwegian athletics club from Lillehammer, founded on 28 May 1919. At that time city already had four different sports teams; for cross-country skiing (since 1882), gymnastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Arne Engh
Odd Arne Engh (born 14 April 1951) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier. He was born in Fåberg, and represented the club Søre Ål IL. He competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ... in Lake Placid. He was Norwegian champion in 1973. References 1951 births Living people Skiers from Lillehammer Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Norway Nordic combined skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Kokslien
Mikko Kokslien (born 10 March 1985) is a Norwegian nordic combined skier. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and earned his best individual finish of 13th in the 10 km individual large hill at those same championships. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Kokslien finished 32nd in the 10 km individual normal hill and 39th in the individual large hill event. He was the runner-up in the 2010–11 World Cup season. His mother is a Finn (from Lahti) and Mikko speaks Finnish fluently. He represents the club Søre Ål IL Søre Ål Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian Nordic skiing, skiing club from Søre Ål, Lillehammer, Norway. The club was founded in 1944. Cross-country skiers Brit Pettersen Tofte and Thea Krokan Murud represented the club, so did the Nordic co .... References External links * * * 1985 births Living people Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers FIS Nordic Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Johansson (ski Jumper)
Robert Høneren Johansson (born 23 March 1990) is a former Norwegian Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is a former list of the longest ski jumps#Men, ski flying world record holder, having landed a jump of in Vikersundbakken, Vikersund on 2016–17 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, 18 March 2017. Johansson has often been nicknamed the "Wing Commander" for his distinctive handlebar moustache. He announced his retirement on May 20, 2025. Ski jumping career He finished fourth in the team competition at the 2009 Junior World Ski Championships, and also competed at the 2010 Junior World Ski Championships. In January 2012 he took his first Ski jumping Continental Cup, Continental Cup podium, with a third place in Titisee-Neustadt, Neustadt, and in March 2012 he won his first Continental Cup race in Kuopio. In the Ski jumping World Cup, World Cup he has finished once among the top 15, with a 13th place from Kuusamo in November 2013. He managed two more top-20 placements that season, with a 20th an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Lillehammer
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
