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Johan Chr. Schønheyder (12 February 1915 – 14 March 2015) was a Norwegian insurance manager, orienteer and sports official.


Personal life

Schønheyder was born in
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to engineer Johan Franciscus Schønheyder and Anna Kristine Schjold. He married Anne Lise Gulsrud in 1941, and resided in
Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
.


Career

Schønheyder chaired
Norges Orienteringsforbund The Norwegian Orienteering Federation ( no, Norges Orienteringsforbund, NOF) is the national Orienteering Association in Norway. It is recognized as the orienteering association for Norway by the International Orienteering Federation, of which ...
from 1948 to 1953, and the Norwegian Confederation of Sports from 1965 to 1967. He competed for the Norwegian national orienteering team at the international match between Norway and
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in 1939. He was a board member of
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from 1966 to 1970.


References

1915 births 2015 deaths Sportspeople from Oslo People from Bærum Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian sports executives and administrators Norwegian centenarians Men centenarians {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub