Atle Hansen is a

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and world champion. He won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 1985

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, together with

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and

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.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 14 July 2008) He finished overall second in the first unofficial

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in 1983. He was national junior champion in the ''individual event'' in 1980 and again in 1981, and received a silver medal in the ''individual event'' at the Nordic Orienteering Championships for juniors in

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in 1980.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub