Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo (also BUL, Oslo) is a sports club in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
, Norway, founded on 8 January 1913. It is one of several branches of Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo, a local chapter of
Noregs Mållag
Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language conflict, it advocates the u ...
and
Noregs Ungdomslag Noregs Ungdomslag (NU, literally "Norway's youth society") is a Norwegian cultural society formed in 1896. It has around 17,000 members and 450 local chapters.
Activities
Among the society's activities are folk dance, theatre and the spreading of ...
.
IL i BUL has sections for
track and field athletics
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and
skiing
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, and has previously been active in
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 ...
,
football
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, and
handball
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.
Track and field
BUL is one of the leading track and field clubs in Norway. Well known athletes are the long distance runners
Ingrid Kristiansen
Ingrid Kristiansen (née Christensen on 21 March 1956) is a Norwegian former athlete. She was one of the best female long-distance runners during the 1980s. She is a former world record holder in the 5000 metres, 10,000 metres and the marathon ...
Øyvind Dahl
Øyvind Dahl (born 12 May 1951, in Oslo) is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner. He represented IL i BUL.
At the European Championships he finished fifteenth in 10,000 metres in 1978 and ninth in marathon in 1982. He also competed at the ...
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (born 1 January 1984) is a Gambian-Norwegian sprinter. He is of Serer heritage of the noble Ndure family. In 2002, he went to Oslo, aged 18 and settled with his father who has lived in Norway since the 1970s. Having changed ...
and
Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo (born 3 March 1988) is a Norwegian sprinter. She is Scandinavia's fastest woman ever over 60m and 100m. Okparaebo has won the 100m national title 13 times. She moved to Norway as a nine-year old and grew up in Ammerud. She vis ...
, jumpers include
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 ...
Einar Kristian Tveitå
Einar Kristian Tveitå (born 22 February 1973) is a retired Norwegian discus thrower.
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 Championsh ...
.
In 1965 BUL co-formed ''Bislett-alliansen'', together with two other sports clubs,
IK Tjalve
Idrettsklubben Tjalve is a Norway, Norwegian athletics (sport), athletics club from Oslo, founded on 27 December 1890. It is named after Þjálfi in Norse mythology.
It is one of the most prominent athletics clubs in Norway, and numerous members h ...
and
SK Vidar
Sportsklubben Vidar is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo. It has sections for track and field, triathlon, and archery.
Organization
The club was founded in 1919. It was later a member of the Workers' Sports Federation before the war.
It arrange ...
, and since 1966 this group has organized the annual
Bislett Games
The Bislett Games is an annual track and field meeting at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now part of the Diamond League.
History
The first international athletics meeting at Bislet ...
, an
IAAF
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event.
Orienteering
BUL, Oslo won the first Norwegian relay championship in Orienteering in 1946. They also won the men's relay in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975, and the women's relay in 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972. Among the club's international orienteers are World Champions
Åge Hadler
Åge Hadler (born 14 August 1944) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, winner of the 1966 and 1972 individual World Orienteering Championships, relay champion from 1970, and individual bronze medalist from 1968.
Early life and career
Hadler ...
,
Ola Skarholt
Ola Skarholt (30 November 1939 – 18 June 2017), was a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He became Relay World Champion in 1970 as a member of the Norwegian winning team, which also consisted of Stig Berge, Per Fosser and Åge Hadler. ...
,
Ingrid Hadler
Ingrid Hadler (born Ingrid Thoresen; 12 February 1946) is a former orienteering competitor and cross-country skier from Norway. She won the 1970 Individual World Orienteering Championships in Eisenach, and received a silver medal in Linköping i ...
and
Astrid Rødmyr
Astrid Rødmyr (born 30 March 1940) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and World champion.cross-country skiers
Johan Grøttumsbråten
Johan Hagbart Pedersen Grøttumsbraaten (24 February 1899 – 24 January 1983) was a Norwegian skier who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s and early 1930s, he won several medals in the early Winte ...
and
Odd Martinsen
Odd-Willy Martinsen (born 20 December 1942) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier who competed during the 1960s and 1970s. He won three medals at the Winter Olympics, a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay (1968) and silvers in the 30 k ...
, both Olympic champions and world champions;
Bjarne Iversen
Bjarne Iversen (October 2, 1912 – September 7, 1999) was a Norwegian
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*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group ...
Heidi Weng
Heidi Weng (born 20 July 1991) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and fell runner.
Career
In cross-country skiing her best individual World Cup finish is her victories in Tour de Ski both 2016–17 and 2017–18. She has won three gold medals a ...
; and
ski jumper
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The football team was among the pioneers of women's football in Norway. The women's team played in the highest league in Norway as late as in
1991
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