Anne Berit Eid (born 13 June 1957) is a Norwegian

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. Her achievements include winning an individual world championship gold medal in 1978, and a silver medal in the relay in 1979.

Biography

Born on 13 June 1957, Eid represented the Oslo club Romerikslagets IL. She won the

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

Individual

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 ...

ahead of

Liisa Veijalainen Liisa Peltola (née Liukkonen, formerly Veijalainen; born 4 April 1951) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She won the 1976 Individual World Orienteering Championships,

and

Wenche Jacobsen Wenche Jacobsen (born 28 July 1954) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor who competed internationally. Her achievements included winning a bronze medal at the world championships in 1978, and she was part of the Norwegian relay team at the wor ...

.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on November 24, 2007) She also won a silver medal in the relay at the

1979 World Orienteering Championships The 1979 World Orienteering Championships, the 8th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Tampere, Finland, 2–4 September 1979. The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women. ...

. She won four national titles in orienteering in 1979 and 1980.

References

1957 births Living people Norwegian orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub