Audun Knutsen
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Audun Knutsen is a Norwegian
ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF. A successful ski orienteer combines high physical endurance, strength and excellent technical sk ...
competitor and world champion. He won a gold medal in the relay at the
World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance comp ...
in
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in 1986, together with
Sigurd Dæhli Sigurd Dæhli (born 6 May 1953) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He became Relay World Champion in 1981, by participating on the Norwegian winning team in Thun, Switzerland.
, Lars Lystad and
Vidar Benjaminsen Vidar Benjaminsen (born 18 August 1962) is a Norway, Norwegian ski-orienteering Competition, competitor and world champion. He has received four gold medals, four silver medals and seven bronze medals at the World Ski Orienteering Championships, ...
. His father Tormod was a medallist in
Nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in ...
skiing at the
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
and
1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964. The city was a ...
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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian ski-orienteers {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub