25 Notable alumni of
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
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The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences is 1626th in the world, 559th 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 former football manager and player. He is best known as a highly successful manager of the Norway national team. He later was manager of the Iraq national 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 playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Nils Arne Eggen was a Norwegian footballer, manager and teacher from Orkdal Municipality. 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 playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Frode Grodås is a Norwegian football coach and former national team goalkeeper. 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
- dogsled mushercross-country skierathletics 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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Tom Nordlie
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Tom Nordlie is a Norwegian football coach. He has managed several top Norwegian football teams.
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Hege Storhaug
- Enrolled in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- writerjournalistvolleyball player
- Biography
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Hege Storhaug is a Norwegian political activist, writer and author. She has been known for her criticism of Islamic cultural practices since the 1990s, and later also opposition to immigration. She formerly worked as a journalist, and has run the small organisation Human Rights Service with her partner since 2002. 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".
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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 one of the most decorated national team coaches in handball history and won seventeen championship medals with the Norwegian women's national team during a fifteen-year reign, including two Olympic gold medals, three World Championships titles and six European Championships titles. Þórir coached clubs Elverum, Gjerpen and Nærbø, before becoming the assistant coach of the Norwegian national team in 2001 and succeeding Marit Breivik as head coach in 2009. He stepped down from the national team in December 2024.
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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 coachhandball player
- Biography
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Marit Breivik is a Norwegian former handball player and coach. She is one of the most decorated national team coaches in handball history and won thirteen championship medals with the Norwegian women's national handball team during a fifteen-year reign, including the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the World Championship in 1999, and the European Championship in 1998, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Breivik won three Norwegian national championships and two league titles during her career as a player. She was capped 140 times and scored 286 goals for the Norwegian national team from 1975 to 1983.
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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
- writerexplorermotivational 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
- alpine skiercurler
- 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 53)
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Petter Myhre is a retired Norwegian footballer and currently serves as an assistant coach for Vålerenga.
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Hanne Hegh
- Occupations
- handball coachhandball player
- 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 playerassociation football manager
- 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 playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Knut Kjartan Tørum is a Norwegian football coach. He is a former manager for Moss FK, leading the team to the Tippeliga play-off's in 2005. He is also a former assistant coach for Stabæk Fotball.
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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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Sven Mollekleiv
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- 1955-.. (age 70)
- 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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Gunnar Pettersen
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- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- handball coachhandball player
- 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
- sports officialcross-country skier
- 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
- sports executivebusinessperson
- Biography
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Erik Røste is a Norwegian skiing coach, official and businessperson.
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Torbjørn Sunde
- Occupations
- musicianspeed skatercomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Torbjørn Sunde is a Norwegian jazz trombonist who has worked with Terje Rypdal, Edward Vesala, Jon Balke, Knut Værnes, Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Crawford, Dr. John, Jan Eggum, Jan Garbarek, and Mezzoforte.
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Jarle Aambø
- Occupations
- sports executivealpine skiing coach
- 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.
