Jørgen Rostrup (born 5 November 1978) 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 Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

, two times winner of the

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 ...

, Short distance in 1999, and Classic distance in 2001.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 3 December 2007) He also obtained bronze on the Short distance in 2001. He is two times Relay World Champion, as member of the Norwegian winning teams in 2004 in Sweden, and 2005 in Japan. He also 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 1999 and 2001. He won

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...

twice in the Junior World Championships, in 1997 and 1998. In 1997, he was about to enter Norway's

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, but was not accepted as his eyesight scores were too low. He instead moved to Oslo to study, and changed clubs from

IK Grane Idrettsklubben Grane is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Arendal. It has sections for association football, team handball, athletics and orienteering. The club was founded on 10 February 1902 and named after Grani of Norse mythology. The men's ...

Bækkelagets SK Bækkelagets Sportsklub is a Norwegian sports club from Bekkelaget in southern Oslo, founded in 1909. The club has sections for skiing (including ski jumping and biathlon), orienteering, handball, football, floorball and track and field athletics ...

. Rostrup was head of the Norwegian national orienteering team between 2017 and 2020.

Personal life

Rostrup was born in

Arendal Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the munici ...

on 5 November 1978.

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* 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Arendal Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub