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Olav Lundanes

Lundanes winning the Long Distance at WOC 2010
Personal information
Born	(1987-11-11) 11 November 1987 (age 37) Ålesund
Sport
Sport	Orienteering
Club	Halden SK
Medal record Men's orienteering Representing  Norway World Championships 2010 Trondheim Long 2012 Lausanne Long 2014 Asiago-Lavarone Middle 2016 Strömstad Long 2016 Strömstad Relay 2017 Tartu Long 2017 Tartu Relay 2018 Riga Long 2019 Østfold Long 2019 Østfold Middle 2010 Trondheim Relay 2011 Savoie Relay 2012 Lausanne Relay 2016 Strömstad Middle 2011 Savoie Middle 2014 Asiago-Lavarone Long 2015 Inverness Long World Cup 2012 World Cup Overall 2017 World Cup Overall 2015 World Cup Overall 2016 World Cup Overall 2018 World Cup Overall European Championships 2012 Falun Long 2012 Falun Middle 2018 Ticino Long 2018 Ticino Relay 2014 Palmela Long 2010 Primorsko Relay 2018 Ticino Middle Junior World Championships 2005 Tenero Long 2005 Tenero Relay 2007 Dubbo Long 2007 Dubbo Middle 2006 Druskininkai Long 2007 Dubbo Sprint 2007 Dubbo Relay 2006 Druskininkai Middle 2006 Druskininkai Relay

Olav Lundanes (born 11 November 1987) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, hailing from Ålesund. He has won gold medal at the World Orienteering Championships ten times and the European Orienteering Championships four times. He competes for Halden SK.

Career

Junior

Lundanes competed at the 2005 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Tenero, where he won a gold medal in the long distance, a gold medal in the relay event, and placed fourth in the middle distance. He received a silver and two bronze medals in the 2006 Junior World Championships. In 2007 he had great success in the Junior World Championships, with victories in the long distance and the middle distance, and silver medals in both the sprint and the relay.

He has 11 victories in the national junior championships.

Senior

Lundanes debuted in World Championships at the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kyiv. 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.

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.

In 2012 he won gold medal at the long distance in the World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. He ran the last leg on the Norwegian team who achieved their third consecutive silver medal in the relay.

In Asiago in 2014, Lundanes won his first World Championship gold in middle distance. Thierry Gueorgiou was first announced as the winner, but was later disqualified for undeliberatily skipping a control. At the same championships, Lundanes won a bronze medal at the long distance. He became third even in the following World Championship long distance event in Inverness, Great Britain.

At the 2016 World Orienteering Championships in Strömstad and Tanum he won a gold medal in the long distance. He won a silver medal in the middle distance, and was part of the Norwegian team which won the relay.

He won a gold medal in the long distance at the 2017 World Orienteering Championships, and also won the long distance in the 2018 and 2019 championships.

Lundanes has, as of the end of the 2018 season, not won the overall Orienteering World Cup. He finished second in 2012 and 2017 and third in 2015, 2016 and 2018.

He has 23 victories in the national championships (long 2009/2010/2011/2015/2016/2017/2018, middle 2010/2013/2017, night 2010/2012/2016, ultralong 2010/2012/2015/2016/2018, sprint 2012, relay 2009/2010/2016/2017)

Results

World Championship results

World Cup victories

No.	Date	Venue	Distance
1	12 August 2010	Trondheim	Long distance (WOC)
2	17 May 2012	Falun	Middle distance (EOC)
3	18 May 2012	Falun	Long distance (EOC)
4	19 July 2012	Lausanne	Long distance (WOC)
5	1 September 2012	Holmenkollen	Sprint
6	7 June 2014	Kongsberg	Middle distance
7	11 July 2014	Trentino	Middle distance (WOC)
8	30 April 2016	Wroclaw	Middle distance
9	25 August 2016	Tanum	Long distance (WOC)
10	4 July 2017	Tartu	Long distance (WOC)
11	25 August 2017	Cēsis	Middle distance
12	13 May 2018	Ticino	Long distance (EOC)
13	11 August 2018	Sigulda	Long distance (WOC)
14	14 August 2019	Østfold	Long distance (WOC)
15	16 August 2019	Østfold	Middle distance (WOC)

References

1. ^ "Profile: Olav Lundanes" – World of O Runners (Retrieved on 14 June 2008)
2. "World Orienteering Championships 2009". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
3. ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2010". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
4. "Official results for Long".
5. "Official results for Middle".
6. "Official results for Relay".
7. Askheim, Svein. "Olav Lundanes". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

External links

• Olav Lundanes at the International Orienteering Federation
• Olav Lundanes at World of O

• 1987 births
• Living people
• Norwegian male orienteers
• Norwegian foot orienteers
• Sportspeople from Ålesund
• World Orienteering Championships medalists
• 20th-century Norwegian people
• 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen
• Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists