Olav Lundanes (born 11 November 1987) is a

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orienteering competitor, hailing from

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. He has won gold medal at the

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ten times and the

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four times. He competes for Halden SK.

Career

Junior

Lundanes competed at the 2005

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, where he won a gold medal in the ''long distance'', a gold medal in the ''relay event'', and placed fourth in the middle distance."Profile: Olav Lundanes"
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on June 14, 2008) He received a silver and two bronze medals in the 2006 Junior World Championships. In 2007 he had great success in the Junior World Championships, with victories in the long distance and the middle distance, and silver medals in both the sprint and the relay. He has 11 victories in the national junior championships.

Senior

Lundanes debuted in World Championships at the

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. At the 2008

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he finished 19th in the long distance. He placed fourth in the sprint and 7th in the long distance at the 2009

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. Lundanes won the long distance event in the

in 2010 in

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. Later same week he won silver in the relay event together with Audun Weltzien and Carl Waaler Kaas. In 2012 he won gold medal at the long distance in the

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, Switzerland. He ran the last leg on the Norwegian team who achieved their third consecutive silver medal in the relay. In

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in 2014, Lundanes won his first World Championship gold in middle distance. Thierry Gueorgiou was first announced as the winner, but was later disqualified for undeliberatily skipping a control. At the same championships, Lundanes won a bronze medal at the long distance. He became third even in the following World Championship long distance event in Inverness,

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. At the 2016 World Orienteering Championships in

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and Tanum he won a gold medal in the long distance. He won a silver medal in the middle distance, and was part of the Norwegian team which won the relay. Lundanes has, as of the end of the 2018 season, not won the overall

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. He finished second in

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and

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and third in 2015,

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and

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. He has 23 victories in the national championships (long 2009/2010/2011/2015/2016/2017/2018, middle 2010/2013/2017, night 2010/2012/2016, ultralong 2010/2012/2015/2016/2018, sprint 2012, relay 2009/2010/2016/2017)

Results

World Championship results

World Cup victories

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundanes, Olav 1987 births Living people Norwegian orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers Sportspeople from Ålesund World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian people Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists