- Olav Lundanes
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Medal record 
Olav Lundanes at JWOC 2007Competitor for 
NorwayMen's Orienteering World Championships Gold 2010 Trondheim Long distance Silver 2010 Trondheim Relay Silver 2011 Savoie Relay Bronze 2011 Savoie Middle distance European Championships Bronze 2010 Primorsko Relay Junior World Championships Gold 2005 Tenero Long distance Gold 2005 Tenero Relay Gold 2007 Dubbo Long distance Gold 2007 Dubbo Middle distance Silver 2006 Druskininkai Long distance Silver 2007 Dubbo Sprint distance Silver 2007 Dubbo Relay Bronze 2006 Druskininkai Middle distance Bronze 2006 Druskininkai Relay Olav Lundanes (born November 11, 1987) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He is World Champion once and four times Junior World Champion.
Junior career
Lundanes competed at the 2005 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Tenero, where he received a gold medal in the long distance and a gold medal in the relay event.[1] He received a silver and two bronze medals in 2006. In 2007 he had great success with victories in the long distance and the middle distance, and received silver medal in the sprint distance and in the relay event.
He has 11 victories in the national junior championships.
Senior career
Olav is the winner of Long distance at WOC 2010
He participated at the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kiev. At the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils he finished 19th in the long distance.
He placed fourth in the sprint and 7th in the long distance at the 2009 World Orienteering Championships in Miskolc.[2]
Lundanes won the long distance event in the World Orienteering Championships in 2010 in Trondheim. Later same week he won silver in the relay event together with Audun Weltzien and Carl Waaler Kaas.
He has 8 victories in the national championships (long 2009, 2010 and 2011, middle 2010, night 2010, ultralong 2010, relay 2009 and 2010)
References
- ^ "Profile: Olav Lundanes" – World of O Runners (Retrieved on June 14, 2008)
- ^ "WOC 2009 HUN. Miskolc, Hungary, 16–23 August 2009". International Orienteering Federation. http://orienteering.org/i3/index.php?/iof2006/results/foot_orienteering/world_orienteering_championships/woc_2009_hun. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
Categories:- 1987 births
- Living people
- Norwegian orienteers
- Foot orienteers
- Norwegian orienteering biography stubs
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