Lars Lystad is a Norwegian

ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing endurance Winter sport, winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines Sport governing body, recognized by the International Orienteering Federation, ...

competitor and world champion. He won a

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

in the ''

relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch ...

event'' at the

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance compe ...

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, ...

in 1986, together with Sigurd Dæhli,

Audun Knutsen Audun Knutsen is a Norwegian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. He won a gold medal in the relay at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Batak in 1986, together with Sigurd Dæhli, Lars Lystad and Vidar Benjaminsen. H ...

and

Vidar Benjaminsen Vidar Benjaminsen (born 18 August 1962) is a Norwegian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. He has received four gold medals, four silver medals and seven bronze medals at the World Ski Orienteering Championships, from 1986 to 1996. ...

, and again in Val di Non in 1994, with Kjetil Ulven,

Harald Svergja Harald Svergja (born 1964) is a Norwegian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. He won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Val di Non in 1994, together with Kjetil Ulven, Lar ...

and Vidar Benjaminsen.World Ski Orienteering Championships
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 28 October 2008) He received a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in the ''long distance'' in 1994. He finished second in the overall

World Cup in Ski Orienteering The World Cup in Ski Orienteering is a series of ski-orienteering competitions organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first official World Cup was held in 1989, then every second year up to 1999, and then in 2000, 2001, 2003, ...

in 1993.World Cup in Ski Orienteering
– ''IOF'' (Retrieved on 28 October 2008)

References

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