IF Urædd is a Norwegian sports club from

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, founded in 1880. Since 8 December 1993 it has been an alliance sports team, with independent sections for football, handball, sport wrestling, skiing, gymnastics, basketball, athletics and speed skating. Its football section Urædd FK, athletics section Urædd Friidrett and handball section Urædd Håndball are the best known nationwide.

Urædd Friidrett

Urædd Friidrett is the

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department of the alliance club IF Urædd from

, which was founded in 1880. The athletics section within IF Urædd was established in 1917. The athletics team uses the stadium Kjølnes stadion. Its most prominent members are Lars Arvid Nilsen, Georg Andersen, Svein Inge Valvik and Olav Jenssen, who all competed in throwing events. Andersen and Nilsen originally won the silver and bronze medals in shot put at the

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, but Andersen was disqualified and lost the medal due to a doping offence.

Urædd Fotball

The men's football team currently resides in the 3. divisjon, the fourth tier of Norwegian football, having won promotion after a brief stint of one season down in the 4. Divisjon in 2012. The club played in the

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final in

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as ''Porsgrunds FC'' and in

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, which they lost 5–2 against Lyn. Urædd's junior team for girls won the Telenor Cup, the national junior cup for Under-19 girls, in 2010, with a 4–1 win over Fløya in Tromsdalen.

Recent seasons (women's)

References

External links

Official site
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