Astrid Tveit (born 26 June 1957) is a retired

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. She represented

Lillehammer IF Lillehammer Idrettforening is a Norwegian athletics club from Lillehammer, founded on 28 May 1919. At that time city already had four different sports teams; for cross-country skiing (since 1882), gymnastics (since 1892), speed skating (since 18 ...

and

IL i BUL Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo (also BUL, Oslo) is a sports club in Oslo, Norway, founded on 8 January 1913. It is one of several branches of Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo, a local chapter of Noregs Mållag and Noregs Ungdomslag. IL i BUL ha ...

. She finished tenth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships and tenth at the 1978 European Championships. She also competed at the European Championships in

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and

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as well as the

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without reaching the finals. She became Norwegian champion in the years 1974-1979 and 1981. Her personal best jump was 1.90 metres, achieved in June 1982 in

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. This places her third among Norwegian high jumpers, only behind

Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland (born 14 December 1967 in Haugesund) is a former Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career. In her early international career she finished eleven ...

and Anne Gerd Eieland.Norwegian all-time list high jump

References

1957 births Living people Norwegian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub