Anders Skarholt 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...

 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

Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...

 and Junior World Orienteering Champion

Junior World Orienteering Championships

The Junior World Orienteering Championships are an orienteering competition held every year. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition...

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Junior career

Anders Skarholt competed at the 2006 Junior World Orienteering Championships

Junior World Orienteering Championships

The Junior World Orienteering Championships are an orienteering competition held every year. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition...

 in Druskininkai

Druskininkai

Druskininkai is a spa town on the Neman River in southern Lithuania, close to the borders of Belarus and Poland. The city of Druskininkai has a population of 18,233 and dates back as a spa resort to the 19th century.-Names:...

, where he received a gold medal in the long distance.

He participated on the Norwegian team in the relay event, together with Erik Sagvolden and Olav Lundanes

Olav Lundanes

Olav Lundanes is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He is World Champion once and four times Junior World Champion.-Junior career:...

, and received a bronze medal. Skarholt was running the first leg and developed a heart flutter

Ventricular flutter

Ventricular flutter is an arrhythmia, more specifically a tachycardia affecting the ventricles with a rate over 200 beats/min. It is characterized on the ECG by a sinusoidal waveform without clear definition of the QRS and T waves...

, and finished his leg two and a half minutes behind the lead.