Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (born 7 July 1981) 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 ...

and

ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF. A successful ski orienteer combines high physical endurance, strength and excellent technical sk ...

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 ...

."Profile: Øystein Kvaal Østerbø"
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on 3 June 2019) He finished overall third in the Orienteering World Cup in 2004, and won a silver medal in the relay in the 2004

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance comp ...

. He has competed in all fifteen

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

since his debut in

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 ...

until 2018, obtaining his first two medals in

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in 2015; in the relay and mixed sprint relay, respectively. His best individual achievements are fourth places in the sprint in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

and

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

World cup, orienteering

Østerbø finished third overall at the 2004 Orienteering World Cup, with a total score of 207 points (same score as Russian Andrey Khramov who finished second).World Cup 2004
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 19 June 2008) He was ranked 7th in the World Cup 2005.World Cup 2005
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 19 June 2008)

European championships

He received a bronze medal in ''relay'' at the European Orienteering Championships in 2006 in Otepää. In 2008 in

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he made a small mistake that cost him the medal in the ''sprint distance'', where he finished 8th but missed the bronze medal by only eleven seconds.Mistet medaljen på «knot»
– ''adressa.no (27 May 2008)'' (Retrieved on 19 June 2008)European Orienteering Championships 2008
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 19 June 2008)

National championships

He became Norwegian champion in ''night orienteering'' in 2006.

Ski orienteering

Østerbø participated on the Norwegian team that received a silver medal at the

in 2004, together with Anders Hauge, Eivind Tonna and Tommy Olsen. At this championship he finished 8th in the ''sprint distance'' and 6th in the ''middle distance''.Ski-WOC 2004 SWE – Åsarna/Östersund, Sweden, 9-16 February 2004
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 19 June 2008)

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* * 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Trondheim Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers Norwegian ski-orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games bronze medalists for Norway World Games medalists in orienteering 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen Medalists at the 2005 World Games Medalists at the 2009 World Games {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub