Egil Johansen (born 18 August 1954) 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 and coach. He was two times individual world champion in orienteering, and later coached the Norwegian national team.

Biography

Born on 18 August 1954, Johansen represented the clubs OK Sør and Randesund IL. He was winner of the

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and

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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 14 December 2007) as well as getting silver medal in

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. He was Relay World Champion in 1978 as a member of the Norwegian winning team, and also have a silver medal from 1976. He won the Jukola relay in 1988. He won seven individual national titles in orienteering, and two titles in relay (1975–1980). He served as coach for the Norwegian national team from 1992 to 1997, and from 2000 to 2002. He has his education from the

Norwegian School of Sport Sciences The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (, NIH) is a public university located at Sognsvann in Oslo, Norway. It has the national responsibility for education and research related within sport sciences. It provides education at the Bachelor, Mast ...

References

1954 births Living people Norwegian male orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Norwegian orienteering coaches Norwegian School of Sport Sciences alumni 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub