Jar Idrettslag is a

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sports club from

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. It mainly covers the areas

Jar A jar is a rigid, cylindrical or slightly conical container, typically made of glass, ceramic, or plastic, with a wide mouth or opening that can be closed with a lid, screw cap, lug cap, cork stopper, roll-on cap, crimp-on cap, press-on c ...

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and parts of

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. Jar IL was founded on 2 February 1934 as a merger between the boys' clubs Freidig and Rapp. It had sections for

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

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and

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(

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and

ski jumping Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the final ...

). Sections were added for team handball in 1940,

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in the 1940s and ice hockey in the 1950s. Ice hockey was the main focus from 1954, while all other sports waned. Only handball survived. The home field was Jar idrettsplass, colloquially named Jarbanen, which was opened on 20 August 1937. The ground had originally been given to Bærums SK in 1922 by Harald Løvenskiold. The field was owned by ''Jar Welfare Society'' from 1938 to 1946, Jar IL from 1946 to 1968 and then by Bærum Municipality. A field was used for team sports, and nearby there were two ski jumping hills. Both hills disappeared after a time, and the use of the field was limited to handball and tennis during the summer and ice hockey during the winter. From 1965 the club coexisted with the tennis club Jar TK, which existed from 1932 to 2010. A clubroom for Jar IL was opened in 1947, and rebuilt in 1957–1958. In 1976 a similar clubroom was built for the tennis club. An indoor facility for tennis was raised in 1979. From 1986 the ice hockey field was artificially frozen. In 2006 it was decided politically to build an indoor arena for ice sports, demolishing the current tennis fields. The new arena will be named ''Jar ishall''. The tearing of the old facilities started in 2010. The men's ice hockey team won promotion to the Main League, the highest league in Norway, in 1966. In the 1970s the team record a third-place finish. After relegation from the highest league, the team had a tenure at the second tier, the First Division. Their last season there was in 2003–2004. The men's team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian ice hockey. When Jar Ishall is finished, the club will add

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

and

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

to its roster.

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* (ice hockey) * (handball) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jar Il Ice hockey teams in Norway Sport in Bærum Sports clubs and teams established in 1934 Association football clubs established in 1934 Bandy clubs established in 1934 Defunct football clubs in Norway Defunct athletics clubs in Norway 1934 establishments in Norway