25 Notable alumni of
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
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The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences is 1581st in the world, 537th in Europe, and 7th in Norway by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Egil Olsen
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Egil Roger Olsen, nicknamed Drillo, is a Norwegian football manager and former footballer. He is best known as a highly successful manager of the Norway national football team. He has since been manager of the Iraq national football team, his departure from which caused considerable attention. In January 2009, he made a comeback as manager for the Norway national team.
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Nils Arne Eggen
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Nils Arne Eggen was a Norwegian footballer, manager and teacher from Orkdal. Eggen was closely tied to Rosenborg, the club he managed for 23 years between 1970 and 2010. He is Norway's most successful club manager throughout history, having won the Norwegian top division fifteen times and the Norwegian Football Cup six times as a manager. Eggen's tactical emphasis was on playing 4-3-3 and attacking football and his way of playing football has frequently been cited as an inspiration among players, coaches and clubs alike, both domestically and abroad. In his native Trøndelag, Eggen is revered and widely regarded as the greatest and most influential sports person in the region, even eclipsing Olympic champions such as Hjalmar Andersen and Petter Northug.
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Frode Grodås
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Frode Grodås is a Norwegian football coach and former national team goalkeeper originally from Hornindal in Sogn og Fjordane. Capped 50 times for his country, he participated at the 1998 FIFA World Cup as well as being an unused substitute at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
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Anders Aukland
- Occupations
- cross-country skiermusherathletics competitor
- Biography
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Anders Aukland is a retired professional Norwegian cross-country skier who won both Olympic and World Championship gold medals. He lives in Oslo. He competed in the last race of his career on April 2, 2023.
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Hege Storhaug
- Enrolled in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- journalistwritervolleyball player
- Biography
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Hege Storhaug is a Norwegian political activist and author. She has been known for her criticism of Islam since the 1990s, and later also opposition to immigration. She formerly worked as a journalist, and now runs the small organisation Human Rights Service with her partner. In 2015 she published the bestselling book Islam, den 11. landeplage, later translated to English as Islam: Europe Invaded. America Warned, which claimed that Islam is a "plague." Scholars and commentators have described her views as far-right and Islamophobic.
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Tom Nordlie
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Tom Nordlie is a Norwegian football coach. He has managed several top Norwegian football teams.
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Sigurd Pettersen
- Occupations
- ski jumper
- Biography
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Sigurd Pettersen is a Norwegian former ski jumper. His greatest achievement is winning the 2003–04 Four Hills Tournament, with wins in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bischofshofen.
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Marit Breivik
- Occupations
- handball playerhandball coach
- Biography
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Marit Breivik is a former Norwegian team handball player, and former head coach for the Norway women's national handball team. As coach, she has led the team to victory in the 2008 Olympic tournament, the World Women's Handball Championship in 1999, and four European Women's Handball Championships, in 1998 (Netherlands), 2004 (Hungary), 2006 (Sweden) and 2008 (Macedonia).
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Þórir Hergeirsson
- Occupations
- handball coach
- Biography
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Þórir Hergeirsson is an Icelandic handball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Norwegian women's national team.
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Eirik Kvalfoss
- Occupations
- biathlete
- Biography
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Eirik Kvalfoss is a Norwegian retired biathlete.
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Jørgen Aukland
- Occupations
- cross-country skier
- Biography
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Jørgen Aukland is a Norwegian retired long-distance cross-country skier. He is the brother of Anders Aukland and Fredrik Aukland.
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Liv Arnesen
- Enrolled in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Studied in 1975-1977
- Occupations
- explorerwritermotivational speaker
- Biography
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Liv Ragnheim Arnesen is a Norwegian educator, cross-country skier, adventurer, guide, and motivational speaker. Arnesen led the first unsupported women’s crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap in 1992. In 1994, she made international headlines becoming the first woman in the world to ski solo and unsupported to the South pole. – a 50-day expedition of 745 miles (1,200 km).
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Magnus Nedregotten
- Enrolled in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- 2013-2017 studied Sport Management
- Occupations
- curleralpine skier
- Biography
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Magnus Victor Nedregotten is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He currently plays third on Team Steffen Walstad.
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Petter Myhre
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Petter Myhre is a retired Norwegian footballer and current assistant coach for Vålerenga.
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Hanne Hegh
- Occupations
- handball playerhandball coach
- Biography
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Hanne Hegh is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist.
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Even Pellerud
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Even Jostein Pellerud is a Norwegian football coach and former player.
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Knut Tørum
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Knut Kjartan Tørum is a Norwegian football coach. He's a former manager for Moss FK, leading the team to the Tippeliga play-off's in 2005. He's also a former assistant coach for Stabæk Fotball.
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Sven Mollekleiv
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- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- functionary
- Biography
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Sven Mollekleiv is a Norwegian organisational leader and Honorary President of the Norwegian Red Cross. He served as Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross from 1991 to 2001 and President on a voluntary basis from October 2008 to October 2017.
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Tom Sandberg
- Occupations
- Nordic combined skier
- Biography
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Tom Sandberg is a former nordic combined skier from Mo i Rana, Norway who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
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Gunnar Pettersen
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- handball playerhandball coach
- Biography
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Gunnar Atle Pettersen is a Norwegian former team handball player, and a former head coach of the Norwegian national team.
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Marit Myrmæl
- Occupations
- cross-country skiersports official
- Biography
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Marit Myrmæl is a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed during the early 1980s.
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Erik Røste
- Occupations
- businesspersonsports executive
- Biography
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Erik Røste is a Norwegian skiing coach, official and businessperson.
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Olaf Helset
- Occupations
- military officersporting director
- Biography
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Olaf Helset was a Norwegian military officer with the rank of major general and a sports administrator. He played a central role in the early resistance during the German occupation of Norway, both civil and military resistance. He was later in command of the Norwegian police troops in exile in Sweden. After the war, he served as head of the Norwegian Army for two years.
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Jarle Aambø
- Occupations
- alpine skiing coachsports executive
- Biography
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Jarle Alex Aambø is a Norwegian sports official. In 2013 NRK published the claim by Adresseavisen's sport commentator (Kjetil Kroksæter) that Aambø had been forced to resign as leader of Olympiatoppen.
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Zoe van der Weel
- Occupations
- handball player
- Biography
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Zoë van der Weel is a British-Norwegian retired handball player, who plays for the Norwegian club Aker Topphåndball. She played for the British national team, and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. van der Weel was born in Edinburgh to Dutch parents and moved to Trondheim in Norway at age five. She is a dual citizen of Norway and the United Kingdom. She has played for the Norwegian teams Byåsen IL and Nordstrand IF, and studied sports biology at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
