Øvrevoll Hosle Idrettslag 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...

 multi-sports club from eastern 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....

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Organization and history

Sections are bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, association football, ski jumping

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

, cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

 and 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...

. The club covers the areas Øvrevoll

Øvrevoll

-Geography and history:The district Øvrevoll was built around the farm Øvre Vold, which stems from the separation of Vold farm into two farms; Øvre and Nedre Vold in 1721. Today, Øvrevoll and Voll are sometimes referred to as one district...

, Voll

Voll, Akershus

Voll is a district in eastern Bærum, Norway.The district Voll was built around the farm of the same name. The farm was mentioned as Vælli in 1398, Woldt in 1578, Wold in 1723 and later Vold. It belonged to the St. Hallvard's Cathedral during the Middle Ages, and later the state church...

, Grav

Grav

Grav is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Mainly a residential area, the population is 4,463.-References:...

, parts of Bekkestua

Bekkestua

Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, McDonalds, police station and fire station...

 and Jar

Jar, Norway

Jar is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Its population is 4,868.It is served by the Jar rail station on the Kolsås Line.-References:...

 as well as Hosle

Hosle

Hosle is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Its population is 5,713.-References:...

. The club colors are white.
The club was founded on 26 September 2007 as a merger of Øvrevoll BK and Hosle IL. Hosle IL was founded in 1947 as Grav og Voll IL. The name was changed to IL Bæring and later Hosle when Bæring merged with Hosletoppen. Øvrevoll BK was founded on 26 April 1955 as Øvrevollkameratene. The football and bandy teams of the two clubs had cooperated long before the actual merger.

Sports

The men's bandy team plays in the First Division, the second tier. It played in the Premier League as late as in 2005–06

Norwegian Bandy Premier League 2005–06

The 2005–06 season of the Norwegian Premier League, the highest bandy league for men in Norway.21 games were played, with 2 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Stabæk won the league, whereas Øvrevoll/Hosle was relegated.-League table:...

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The men's football team played in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football, until 2010, when they pulled their team because of a lack of players. Its best known player was Andreas Hauger

Andreas Hauger

Andreas Hauger is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.He came through the youth ranks of Stabæk, and played professionally with this club. He got two matches in the Norwegian Premier League in 1998 and 1999. His only honour during this period was the Norwegian Football Cup 1998 victory...

, who played for the team in 2009. The best known female footballer is Siri Nordby

Siri Nordby

Siri Nordby is a Norwegian football defender who plays for Røa in Norway's Toppserien league. She also plays for the Norway women's national football team....

, who started her career there.

Handball player Karoline Dyhre Breivang

Karoline Dyhre Breivang

Karoline Dyhre Breivang is a Norwegian team handball player. She is an Olympic gold medalist as well as three times European champion. She also received a silver medal at the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France....

 started her career in Hosle. The best known club member overall is ski jumper Bjørn Einar Romøren

Bjørn Einar Romøren

Bjørn Einar Romøren is a Norwegian ski jumper representing Øvrevoll Hosle IL in Bærum.His first World Cup victory came in Bischofshofen, Austria during the Four Hills Tournament in January 2003. He has later won several World Cup competitions as well as two FIS Nordic World Ski Championships...

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