Øyvin Thon (born 25 March 1958) is a Norwegian

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

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, and has seven gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships. He is married to

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, also a World Orienteering Champion. In 2005 they both climbed

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(8201 meters).The Norwegian Cato Zahl Pedersen reached the top on Cho Oyu - Unarmed expedition 2005
(Retrieved on 8 December 2007) He won the

Jukola relay The Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949. Jukola is the biggest orienteering relay event in the world. The race takes place on a Saturday between 13 and 19 June in sites around Finland. The northern ...

in 1988.

International championships

Thon won gold medals at the 1979 and 1981 Individual

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 8 December 2007) and finished second in 1983. He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (

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, Switzerland), 1983 (

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, Hungary), 1985 (

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, Australia), 1987 (

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, France) and 1989 (

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, Sweden). He won the Overall World Cup in Orienteering in 1988, and finished second in 1986.

National championships

Thon is several times Norwegian champion. He won the ''classic distance'' in 1980, achieved bronze medals in 1981 and 1982, and silver medal in 1985. He won the relay with the club

IF Sturla Idrettsforeningen Sturla is a Norwegian sports club from Drammen, founded in 1923. It has sections for athletics, orienteering and skiing. The athletics uses Marienlyst stadion as their home field. Among its most prominent members are long-di ...

seven years in a row from 1979 to 1985. He won the ''long distance'' in 1981, 1983 and 1986. He received gold medals in ''night orienteering'' in 1981, 1982 and 1984.Berglia 1987: p. 324

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thon, Oyvin 1958 births Living people Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Kongsberg IF 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen