Stabæk Idrætsforening is a

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multi-sports club in

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, a municipality bordering on

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in the west. It has sections for

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bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

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and

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. While the football team

Stabæk Fotball Stabæk Fotball is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo. It is part of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, the club's name is an archaic spelling of the suburban area Stabekk, from whic ...

is the most prominent, the men's bandy team has taken multiple national championships. The women's handball team plays in the first tier of Norwegian handball, and the men's team on the third tier. The club formerly had sections for

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and

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. In early 2009 a new women's football team was started within Stabæk IF and was named Stabæk Fotball Kvinner, in reality a relocation of

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's women's team.

History

The club was founded on 16 March 1912, really as a continuation of the club ''Stabæk SFK'' from 1908. In 1922 it absorbed some neighboring clubs ''Grav IF'', ''Haslum SK'' and ''Stabekk AK'', and in 1926 it absorbed ''Stabekk BK'', which had rejected a merger in 1922.''Stabæk Idrætsforening 75 år'', p. 11 It still had a local competitor in the workers' club ''Stabekk AIL'', which was organized in

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. Around 1930 the shooting section broke out of Stabæk IF and founded its own club. During the

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, Stabæk IF was disbanded by Axel Heiberg Stang and Egil Reichborn-Kjennerud on 21 June 1941. So as to avoid forced nazification by the Quisling regime, an action taken by most Norwegian sports clubs. Reichborn-Kjennerud even lived at Skallum farm, near an old ice rink used by Stabæk. The club was re-founded after the war's end. The next section to become defunct was the athletics section, which was dissolved in 1985. Stabæk had a number of nationally competitive athletes, including Per Stavem, Svein Inge Valvik, Thor Tangen, Leif Uggen, Rolf Arveland, Rolf Kluge and Sturla Kaasa, and also

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. The

section later went defunct.

Localization

Its name is taken from the area

Stabekk Stabekk is a suburban centre in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, west of Oslo. It is predominantly a residential area, with many residents commuting to Oslo. As of 2005 the population was 6,261. Bærum has the highest income per capita and the hi ...

, and the club headquarters are located at

Ringstabekk Ringstabekk is a district in Bærum, Norway. Named after the local farm, the district is also known for its schools and the sports field. The sports club Stabæk IF originates in the area. The farm The district originates from the farm Øvre Stabæ ...

, but the club activities except bandy and skiing have been centered on

Nadderud Nadderud is a district in eastern Bærum, Norway. It was formerly farmland under one of Bærum's larger farms, named Nadderud, but since the 1950s it has been built up with housing, several schools and sporting facilities. The best known facility, ...

and

Bekkestua Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, police station and fire station. It has grown to be the second ...

the recent years. In 1990 the club presented grandiose plans: at Nadderud, the grass pitch Bekkestuabanen would be an ice arena with a grandstand and adjoining buildings. A field north of Bekkestuabanen would become an underheated gravel pitch for football. A new indoor arena would be built near Nadderudhallen; the road which leads to Nadderudhallen would in that case disappear. The new clubrooms would be in the lower secondary school ''Bekkestua'', which Stabæk suggested to abolish. The club also proposed to turn the upper secondary school ''Nadderud'' into a conference center for elite sports. Stabæk would in such a scenario leave the headquarters at Ringstabekk behind, swapping it with the municipality for help with the grandiose plans. Not one of the suggestions materialized. In 2009 the football section relocated somewhat as they inaugurated the new stadium

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Bandy

*Norwegian champion: 1952, 1953, 1955, 1977, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 og 2011. *Premier league wins: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011.

Football

Men

*Norwegian cup champion in football 1998. *League champion in football 2008.

Women

*Norwegian champion in football 2011, 2012 and 2013. *League champion in football 2010 and 2013.

Handball

*Norwegian champion in women's handball 1971. *Norwegian champion in men's handball 1969. *Norwegian runner-up in women's handball cup 2011, 2012 and 2017.

Notable former players

Karoline Dyhre Breivang Karoline Charlotte Dyhre Breivang (born 10 May 1980) is a retired Norwegian handball player. She is a double Olympic gold medalist, a world champion and five time European champion. Breivang played for the Norwegian club Larvik HK Larvik Håndb ...

* Linn Jørum Sulland *

Stine Bredal Oftedal Stine Bredal Oftedal (born 25 September 1991) is a Norwegian handball player for Győri ETO KC and the Norwegian national team, where she is the team captain. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2019 by the International Handball ...

* Hanna Bredal Oftedal * Sanna Solberg *

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* Karoline Mamelund * Linn Gossé * Janne Tuven * Monica Vik Hansen *

Jeanette Nilsen Jeanette Nilsen (born 27 June 1972) is a Norwegian team handball player and World Champion from 1999. She was born in Skien. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New ...

* Heidi Halvorsen * Siv Heim Sæbøe * Malin Holta * Helene Gigstad Fauske * Jenny Osnes Græsholt *

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Alpine

* Sverre Johannessen, Norwegian champion in

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and

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1947. * Johan Rolf Flattum, Norwegian champion 1953. *

Dikke Eger-Bergmann Fredrikke "Dikke" Eger-Bergman (born 7 November 1943) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier. She was born in Stabekk, and represented the club Stabæk IF. She participated at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, where she competed in downhill, s ...

, Norwegian champion in

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1961, 1966 and 1967,

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

1966 and

1966 and 1967. * Anne Berge, Norwegian champion in giant slalom 1983 and 1994, alpine combined 1989. *Berit Strand, Norwegian champion in slalom 1965. *Lasse Thue, Norwegian champion in slalom 1972. *Fredrik Zimmer, Norwegian champion in giant slalom 1986 *Torjus Berge, Norwegian champion in slalom 1986. *Kjersti Nilsen, Norwegian champion in slalom 1987. *Janne Ugelstad, Norwegian champion in combined and downhill 1987. *

Jeanette Lunde Jeanette Lunde (born 28 March 1972) is a former Norwegian sportsperson who competed in alpine skiing and sailing. She competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics, the second Norwegian woman to do so. Alpine skiing As an alpine skier she fini ...

, Norwegian champion in downhill 1995. *Morten Møller, Norwegian champion in

Telemark skiing Telemark skiing is a skiing technique that combines elements of Alpine and Nordic skiing, using the rear foot to keep balance while pushing on the front foot to create a carving turn on downhill skis with toe-only bindings. Telemark skiing is na ...

1995, 1996 and 1997. *

Lotte Smiseth Sejersted Lotte Smiseth Sejersted (born 5 March 1991) is a former Norwegian alpine skier. She won a silver medal at the 2009 Junior World Alpine Skiing Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the downhill event. She took another two medals at the 2 ...

, Norwegian champion in slalom in 2011, giant slalom in 2009 and 2011,

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2009 and 2011, downhill 2007, 2010 and 2011,

super combined Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. A traditional combined competition consists of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, each discipline runs on separate days. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time. (Until the 1990s ...

2009, 2010 and 2011, Junior World Champion in downhill 2011.

Athletics

* Per Stavem, Norwegian champion in

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

1951 and 1952, Norwegian champion in

standing long jump The standing long jump, also known as the standing broad jump, is an athletics event. It was an Olympic event until 1912. It is one of three standing variants of track and field jumping events, which also include the standing high jump and ...

1952.

Ice hockey

*Norwegian champion in

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

1947.

References

External links

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Stabæk Alpint

Stabæk Fotball

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