Einar Kristian Tveitå (born 22 February 1973) is a retired Norwegian

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

er.

Biography

He finished twelfth in the discus final at the 2001 World Championships with a throw of 59.11 metres. He competed at the 1992 World Junior Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final, and also participated at the

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in 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002. He became Norwegian champion in discus throw in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, representing the club

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. His personal best throw was 63.64 metres, achieved in September 1999 in

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. In February 2010 he took the PhD degree at the Faculty of Medicine,

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, with the thesis ''Adhesive Capsulitis, Hydrodilatation and Some Aspects of Validity Regarding Shoulder Assessments''. The thesis was about the treatment of

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Achievements

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* 1973 births Living people Norwegian male discus throwers {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub