Idrettslaget Molde-Olymp 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 Molde

Molde

is a city and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Romsdal region. The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord...

, founded in 1971 as a merger between Molde FIL and SK Olymp. It has sections for athletics and speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

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As a stadium IL Molde-Olymp uses Molde idrettspark

Molde idrettspark

Molde idrettspark is a multi-use stadium in Molde, Norway.A football stadium, it is the former home ground of Molde FK, who moved to Aker stadion for the 1998 season...

, the former home ground of football club Molde FK.

Its most prominent former member is Simon Rønsholm Sandvik, Otto Berg

Otto Berg (athlete)

Otto Berg was a Norwegian long jumper.At the 1936 Summer Olympics he finished tenth in the long jump final with a jump of 7.30 metres. He won the silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in Athletics...

, winner of the silver medal in long jump at the 1934 European Championships in Athletics

1934 European Championships in Athletics

The 1st European Athletics Championships were staged at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy from 7 September to 9 September 1934 including only men's events. Women's championships were held separately in 1938, but men's and women's events were combined at one venue from 1946.The discussion on the...

. Karen Fladset

Karen Fladset

Karen Fladset is a former Norwegian team handball player and coach. She played for the club IL Vestar and the Norwegian women's national handball team. With Vestar she became Norwegian Champion both as player and coach, and she was top scorer in the Norwegian league for four seasons...

, Oddrun Hokland and Hilde Hovdenak

Hilde Hovdenak

Hilde Hovdenak is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres.Internationally she finished thirteenth at the 1998 European Championships...

represented the club (including predecessor clubs) in their early careers.

External links

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