Skjetten is a town in
Lillestrøm
Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger be ...
municipality,
Viken
Viken may refer to:
*Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region
*Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020
*Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden
*Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta cana ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. It is located approximately 20 kilometres northeast of Oslo's city centre with a population of 10 000. Skjetten has five kindergartens, two primary schools and a secondary school in close proximity.
Notable people
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Iver Bjerkestrand
Iver Bjerkestrand (born 1987) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier.
Bjerkstrand is from Skjetten, Norway. He made his FIS Alpine Ski World Cup debut in October 2008 in Sölden. Among his ten first World Cup races he only managed to finished one. ...
, skier
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Henrik Christiansen, swimmer
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Ingrid Hjelmseth
Ingrid Hjelmseth (born 10 April 1980) is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper. She was Norway's No. 1 for a decade, and her former club Stabæk name her a legend.
Career
Originally from Skjetten, she was the Norway national team's reserve ke ...
, footballer
References
Villages in Akershus
Skedsmo
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