Per Andris Bjørang (born 31 January 1948) is a former Norwegian

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...

and Sprint World Champion. At the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

in Sapporo he finished 4th in the 500 metres. He became World Champion in sprint in 1974. His highest placement on the "Sprint Adelskalender" was number five, in 1976. He was born in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

and represented the club

Oslo IL Oslo Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Oslo, with sections for swimming, speed skating, figure skating and athletics. History It was founded on 3 September 1893 as Kristiania Idrætsforening, partly on the ruins of the clubs ''Dovre ...

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* * 1948 births Living people Norwegian male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Norway Universiade medalists in speed skating Universiade bronze medalists for Norway Competitors at the 1972 Winter Universiade Sportspeople from Lillehammer 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-speed-skater-bio-stub