Jon Tvedt was 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...

 orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 competitor

Competition

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 and athlete who specialized in mountain running. He died while still active in his sport.

Orienteering

Tvedt originally competed in orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

. At the 1993 World Orienteering Championships in West Point, Tvedt competed in three events. He finished fourth in the short distance, jointly with Steven Hale

Steven Hale

Steven Hale is a British orienteering competitor.He received a silver medal in relay at the 1993 World Orienteering Championships in West Point, together with Martin Bagness, Stephen Palmer and Jonathan Musgrave, only 15 seconds behind the Finnish winning team...

, and eleventh in the classic distance. In the relay

Relay race

During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 he finished sixth together with teammates Rolf Vestre

Rolf Vestre

Rolf Erlend Vestre is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and World champion. He won a gold medal in the 1989 World Orienteering Championships in Skaraborg with the Norwegian Relay team. He received a silver medal in the 1991 World Orienteering Championships in Marianske Lazne.He represented IL...

, Håvard Tveite

Håvard Tveite

Håvard Tveite is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He is Relay World Champion from 1987 and 1989, and has a silver medal from 1991 and a bronze medal from 1997. He also obtained bronze in the 1989 Individual World Championship....

 and Petter Thoresen

Petter Thoresen

Petter Thoresen is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, winner of the 1989 Individual World Orienteering Championships, the Short distance in 1993, and the Classic distance in 1997...

. At the 1995 World Orienteering Championships in Detmold

Detmold

Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of about 74,000. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947...

, Tvedt finished eleventh in the short distance, sixth in the classic distance and fourth in the relay

Relay race

During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 together with teammates Petter Thoresen

Petter Thoresen

Petter Thoresen is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, winner of the 1989 Individual World Orienteering Championships, the Short distance in 1993, and the Classic distance in 1997...

, Håvard Tveite

Håvard Tveite

Håvard Tveite is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He is Relay World Champion from 1987 and 1989, and has a silver medal from 1991 and a bronze medal from 1997. He also obtained bronze in the 1989 Individual World Championship....

 and Bjørnar Valstad

Bjørnar Valstad

Bjørnar Valstad is a Norwegian orienteering athlete who has won 4 World Orienteering Championships gold medals.He retired from international orienteering at the end of the 2004 season where he became world champion in both the long and relay events, despite this he failed to make the Orienteering...

. Finally, at the 1999 World Orienteering Championships

World Orienteering Championships

The World Orienteering Championships were first held in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2003 . Since 2003, competitions have been held annually....

 in Inverness

Inverness

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, Tvedt finished eighth in the classic distance. His best placement in the Orienteering World Cup

Orienteering World Cup

The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The first official World Cup was held in 1986, and then every second year up to 2004...

 was a fourteenth place overall, achieved in 1996.

Athletics

Tvedt later took up mountain running. He competed internationally at the European Championships in 2005 and 2007. In 2005 he finished twentieth in the individual race, and thirteenth in the team competition. In 2007 he finished twenty-eighth in the individual race, and tenth in the team competition.

In 1994 Tvedt won a bronze medal at the Norwegian championship in 12 kilometres cross-country running. In 1998 Tvedt won a silver medal at the Norwegian championship in 10 kilometres cross-country running, behind Karl Johan Rasmussen

Karl Johan Rasmussen

Karl Johan Rasmussen is a Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races. He has represented SK Vidar, Bislett FIK and Haugesund IL....

. He represented the club FIK BFG Fana

FIK BFG Fana

Friidrettsklubben BFG Fana is a Norwegian athletics club from Fana in Bergen, founded in 1987 as an umbrella team for Bjarg, Fana and Gneist.BFG Fana uses the Fana stadion, and hosted the Bislett Games in 2004....

. In 1999 he had changed club to IL Gular

IL Gular

Idrottslaget Gular is a Norwegian athletics club from Bergen, founded in 1946. In the past it has had sections for handball, skiing, gymnastics and football....

, and won a bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 at the national championship, in a race won by Abderrahim Goumri

Abderrahim Goumri

Abderrahim Goumri is a Moroccan long-distance runner. He has competed in cross country, track and road running, but is now a marathon specialist....

. He won the inaugural Norwegian mountain running championships in 2005, ahead of Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset

Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset

Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 1993.A classical technique specialist, Hjelmeset's biggest success is the gold medal in the 50 km event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo...

 and Hans Martin Gjedrem of winter sports fame. Tvedt then defended his title three times.