Lukas Liland (born 1999) is a Norwegian

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 ...

competitor.

Career

At the

2022 World Orienteering Championships The 2022 World Orienteering Championships were held from 26 to 30 June 2022 in the Triangle Region, Denmark. This was the first World Orienteering Championships with only sprint races, and the first to include a knock-out sprint event. Schedul ...

in Denmark, Liland won a bronze medal with the Norwegian sprint relay team. In the individual sprint, he was 28th. At the

European Orienteering Championships The European Orienteering Championships were first held in 1962. They have been held biennially since 2000. From 2020, the European Orienteering Championships will be held annually, with sprint events and forest events in alternate years. Format T ...

, Liland's best achievement is 10th in the knockout sprint in

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

in 2021. This is also his best finish at the

Orienteering World Cup The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The official World Cup was held first in 1986, and then ever ...

. At the Junior World Orienteering Championships, he won the relay event with the Norwegian team and bronze in the middle distance in 2019.

References

1999 births Living people Norwegian orienteers Foot orienteers 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-sport-bio-stub