Lars Rønningen (born 24 November 1965) is a retired

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. He won the European Championship in 1988 and 1992. He was born in

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, and represented the sports clubs

Kolbotn IL Kolbotn Idrettslag is a sports club from Kolbotn, Norway. Since 1960, the club has been organized in semi-autonomous sub-sections. The club runs basketball, amateur wrestling, association football, sport gymnastics, disabled sports, handball, o ...

SK av 1909 Sportsklubben av 1909, often shortened as Sp-09 or Sportsklubben, is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo, founded in 1909. It has sections for amateur boxing and amateur wrestling, and has had several Olympians on its books. History It was founde ...

and Oslo BK. He is a brother of

Jon Rønningen Jon Rønningen (born November 28, 1962, in Oslo) is a former Norwegian wrestler and a member of Kolbotn IL (one of the largest sports clubs in Norway). He won a total of 9 medals in international championships and was the third ...

. Competing mostly in the light-flyweight division, he had success at the European Championships, where he finished fourth in 1982 and

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, won in

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and 1992 and finished fourth again in

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(the latter in flyweight). At the World Championships he finished fourth in

, won a bronze medal in

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and silver medal in

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. At the

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he finished seventh. At the

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he was eliminated after round three, and at the 1992 Olympic Games he finished eighth. He took eight Norwegian national titles between 1981 and 1992.

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* 1965 births Living people Light-flyweight boxers Flyweight boxers Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Norwegian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Norway Sportspeople from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-wrestling-bio-stub