Idrettslaget Jutul is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sports club from Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

. It covers the areas Skui

Skui

Skui is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Together with the district Emma Hjort, its population is 6,281....

 and Vøyenenga

Vøyenenga

Vøyenenga is a village in Akershus, Norway....

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It was founded in 1930 as AIL Viking, a Workers' Sport Confederation

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund was a sporting organization in Norway between 1924 and 1946. As of 1935, AIF had around 50,000 members. AIF published the magazine Arbeideridrett.-Foundation and early growth:...

 club. It has sections for association football, ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 and Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

/athletics. It is named after a Norwegian word for the Jötunn in Norse mythology

Norse mythology

Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology, is the overall term for the myths, legends and beliefs about supernatural beings of Norse pagans. It flourished prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, during the Early Middle Ages, and passed into Nordic folklore, with some aspects surviving...

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The men's ice hockey team currently plays in the First Division, the second tier of Norwegian ice hockey. It won promotion after the 2008–09 Second Division season. Well-known players include Michael Smithurst, Tom Erik Olsen and Halvor Hårstad-Evjen. Eirik Hansen is an ice hockey referee of merit. The team's home arena is Bærum Ishall.

The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It won promotion after the 2007 Fourth Division season. The women's team plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier, but as a cooperation team between northern neighbor Bærums Verk IF. Its home field is Skuisletta.

The volleyball section had a heyday in the post-war period. The women's team won eight national titles in the first ten years that a Norwegian championship was arranged (the first, which Jutul did not win, was in 1946). The club sent three players to the first Norwegian national team in 1953; three women were chosen to fill the spots by an internal sortition

Sortition

In politics, sortition is the selection of decision makers by lottery. The decision-makers are chosen as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates....

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Its athletics section is largely defunct now, but has been more active before. The club has five medals in Norwegian championships, all won by Kristian Johansen in the discus throw

Discus throw

The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

. He won bronze medals in 1949, 1951 and 1956, a silver medal in 1953 and a gold medal in 1955 with 47.36 metres. His rivals were Stein Johnson

Stein Johnson

Sten Jean Johnson is a former Norwegian speed skating trainer and athlete. He was born in Bergen and is the nephew of Sonja Johnsson....

, Per Stavem

Per Stavem

Per Stavem was a Norwegian shot putter and discus thrower. He represented Stabæk IF.At the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the decathlon and finished eleventh with 6151 points. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished eighth in the shot final with 16.02 metres and sixteenth in discus throw with...

, Ivar Ramstad

Ivar Ramstad

Ivar Ramstad was a Norwegian discus thrower.He worked as a farmer at the farm Nygjerdet, between Røra and Straumen, and also had a career in Gjensidige. His brother Jon Ramstad was mayor of Levanger....

, Stein Haugen

Stein Haugen

Stein Haugen was a Norwegian discus thrower.He was born in Lom, but represented IL i BUL. He died in March 2008 in Bærum....

 and Reidar Hagen. The athletics section does arrange a fell running

Fell running

Fell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty...

competition named "Opp Kantebakk".