Jan Fjærestad (born 28 February 1954) is a retired

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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 ...

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and athlete. He is Relay World Champion from 1978 as a member of the Norwegian winning team,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on December 3, 2007) as well as having a silver medal from 1976, and bronze medal from 1974. He also obtained silver in the 1974 Individual World Championships. He is also a

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...

runner, winner of the Nordic Championship in 1977, and three times national marathon champion. He also has medals at the Norwegian championships in

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...

10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...

and

half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcu ...

. He represented the club

Fana IL Fana Idrettslag is the biggest multi-sport club in Fana, Bergen, Norway. It has several branches, of which football is the largest. Fana IL was founded on the 3rd of March in 1920 at Stend in Bergen. The different sports There are a broad scal ...

. Internationally he competed at the 1978 European Championships, the 1983 World Cross Country Championships and the 1983 World Championships, but without any success. His personal best times were: *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

- 7:57.06 min (1982). *

- 13:37.2 min (1978). *

- 28:25.52 min (1981) - ninth among Norwegian 10,000 m runners. *

Half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcu ...

- 1:03:43 hrs (1980). *

Marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...

- 2:13:31 hrs (1983) - tenth among Norwegian marathon runners.Norwegian all-time list, men's marathon

Achievements

*All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise

References

1954 births Living people Sportspeople from Bergen Norwegian orienteers Male orienteers Norwegian male marathon runners Norwegian male long-distance runners Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub