Lars Rønningen is a retired 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...

 sport wrestler. He won the European Championship in 1988 and 1992.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, and represented the sports clubs Kolbotn IL, SK av 1909

SK av 1909

Sportsklubben av 1909, often shortened as Sp-09 or Sportsklubben, is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo, founded in 1909. It has sections for amateur boxing and amateur wrestling, and has had several Olympians on its books.-History:...

 and Oslo BK. He is a brother of Jon Rønningen

Jon Rønningen

Jon Rønningen is a former Norwegian wrestler and a member of Kolbotn IL...

.

Competing mostly in the light-flyweight division, he had success at the European Championships, where he finished fourth in 1982 and 1986, won in 1988 and 1992 and finished fourth again in 1993 (the latter in flyweight). At the World Championships he finished fourth in 1986, won a bronze medal in 1987 and silver medal in 1989.

At the 1984 Olympic Games he finished seventh. At the 1988 Olympic Games he was eliminated after round three, and at the 1992 Olympic Games he finished eighth. He took eight Norwegian national titles between 1981 and 1992.