Anne Berit Eid (born 13 June 1957) 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 ...

competitor. Her achievements include winning an individual world championship gold medal in 1978, and a silver medal in the relay in 1979.

Biography

Born on 13 June 1957, Eid represented the Oslo club Romerikslagets IL. She won the

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

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 ...

ahead of

Liisa Veijalainen Liisa Kaarina Peltola (née Liukkonen, formerly Veijalainen; born 4 April 1951) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She won the 1976 Individual World Orienteering Championships,

and Wenche Jacobsen.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 24 November 2007) She also won a silver medal in the relay at the

1979 World Orienteering Championships The 1979 World Orienteering Championships, the 8th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Tampere, Finland, 2–4 September 1979. The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women. ...

. She won four national titles in orienteering in 1979 and 1980.

References

1957 births Living people Norwegian female orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub