Orkanger Idrettsforening 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 Orkanger

Orkanger

Orkanger is village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Orkdal at the end of the Orkdalsfjorden, and arm of the Trondheimsfjord. Orkanger is the administrative and commercial centre of the municipality of Orkdal...

, Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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. It has sections for association football, team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

, track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, 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...

, 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....

, swimming, gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

, powerlifting

Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

 and dancing.

It was founded on 1 January 1901. On 12 September 1947 it incorporated the clubs Orkanger TF and IL Njardar. In 1953 it lacked sections for handball, swimming, powerlifting and dancing, but had a section for 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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Jan Tore Ophaug

Jan Tore Ophaug

Jan Tore Ophaug is a Norwegian footballer currently playing for the Norwegian side Fredrikstad FK.-External links: * at DR*...

 started his career here. The club was coached by Harald Sunde (playing coach) from 1975 to 1977 and Roger Albertsen

Roger Albertsen

Roger Albertsen was a Norwegian football midfielder.-Club career:At the age of 17 he travelled abroad, playing professionally for Dutch team FC Den Haag...

 from 1989 to 1992.

The men's football team played in the Second Division, the third tier of Norwegian football from 1995

1995 Norwegian Second Division

The 1995 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest association football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 6 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Elverum, Ullern, Mjøndalen, Vidar, Byåsen and Harstad were promoted to the First Division. Number ten, eleven and...

 to 1997

1997 Norwegian Second Division

The 1997 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest association football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 8 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Kjelsås, Raufoss, Ullern and Strindheim were promoted to the First Division through playoffs against the other 4 group...

. In 1997 it was relegated, but from 1998 it joined forced with neighbor and rival Orkdal IL to field the team Orkdal IL/Orkanger IF (OIL/OIF), still in the Second Division. The merger was later formalized through the club Orkla FK. Orkanger IF still fielded teams below junior level.

Late in September 2010 Orkanger IF held a general election among its members to see if the club still wanted to contribute in the collaboration to keep Orkla FK alive. In the election, about 60% of the votes went in favour of withdrawing from the collaboration. The result meant that Orkanger IF were free to field their own team in the men's league. As of this, Orkanger IF have two men's teams (a first team and a B team) in the Sixth Division. The manager is Ronny Folvik.

Orienteer Ellen Sofie Olsvik

Ellen Sofie Olsvik

Ellen Sofie Olsvik is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, world champion in the relay event, and winner of the first overall Orienteering World Cup...

represented the club for a period.