Aarhus Idrætsforening af 1900 commonly known as Århus 1900 is a

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sports club from Århus in Denmark. It has sections for athletics, badminton,

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 ...

, swimming, triathlon, tennis,

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and

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

. The club is one of Denmark's biggest, and a number of athletes has participated in the

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, World Championships and European Athletics Championships. Most famous is perhaps

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ter

Joachim Olsen Joachim Brøchner Olsen (born 31 May 1977) is a Danish former politician and former world class shot putter. He was elected to the Danish parliament at the 2011 election, representing the Liberal Alliance in the Greater Copenhagen constituenc ...

, but also

Christina Scherwin Christina Scherwin (born 11 July 1976) is a Danish people, Danish javelin thrower. Scherwin threw the javelin at the Athens Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw, 2004 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic ...

and

Renata Nielsen Renata Pytelewska-Nielsen is a Poland, Polish-born former Denmark, Danish long jumper. She was born on 18. May 1966 in Otwock, Mazowieckie, Poland. She participated in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. Her personal long jump record is 6.9 ...

has represented the club. The club's long-time rival is AGF-Athletics The club arranges the annual track and field event, Århus Games

External links

Official site
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