Silje Ekroll Jahren (born 10 May 1988) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

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

competitor and junior world champion.

Sports career

Jahren won a gold medal in the ''relay'' at the 2007

Junior World Orienteering Championships The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) are an annual orienteering competition. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition. Representative countries must ...

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, Australia, together with Kine Hallan Steiwer and Siri Ulvestad, in a close race with the Swedish team.Junior World Orienteering Championships
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 2 July 2008)
(Retrieved on 2 July 2008) She received a silver medal in ''sprint'' at the 2008

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, Sweden, finishing less than two seconds behind winner Emma Klingenberg.Danish and Czech victories in Ruddalen!
– ''JWOC 2008'' (Retrieved on 2 July 2008) She competed at the 2012

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 20 ...

. In the sprint competition she qualified for the final, where she placed 10th. Her mother club is Raumar (Ullensaker), but she now represents Sävedalen AIK. She has also competed in

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

, for

Ullensaker SK Ullensaker Skiklubb is a Norwegian sports club from Ullensaker, founded in 1958. It has sections for alpine skiing, Telemark skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country ski ...

. In the last world cup of 2019, held in China at the end of October, she ranked 68.

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* 1988 births Living people People from Ullensaker Sportspeople from Akershus Norwegian female orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub