Øystein Kristiansen (born 29 April 1975) is a Norwegian

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

and World champion.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 22 January 2008) He won a gold medal both in the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and the

2005 World Orienteering Championships The 2005 World Orienteering Championships, the 22nd World Orienteering Championships, were held in Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 () and a geographic ar ...

with the Norwegian Relay team. He received an individual bronze medal in the middle distance at the

2003 World Orienteering Championships The 2003 World Orienteering Championships, the 20th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Rapperswil Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon ...

. He won the

Jukola relay The Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949. Jukola is the biggest orienteering relay event in the world. The race takes place on a Saturday between 13 and 19 June in sites around Finland. The northern ...

in 2000 and 2003.

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* * 1975 births Living people Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub