Bækkelagets Sportsklub is a Norwegian sports club from Bekkelaget

Bekkelaget

Bekkelaget is an area in the borough Nordstrand in Oslo, Norway.Until 2004 it was, together with adjacent Ekeberg, a part of the borough Ekeberg-Bekkelaget.Bekkelaget is known nationwide for the sports club Bækkelagets SK....

 in southern 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...

, founded in 1909. The club has sections for skiing

Skiing

Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

 (including 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...

 and biathlon

Biathlon

Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting...

), 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...

, 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...

, football, floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 and track and field athletics. It is known for organizing one of the world's largest youth football tournaments, Norway Cup

Norway Cup

Norway Cup is an international youth football tournament held annually in Oslo, Norway since 1972.The world's largest arenaNorway Cup has in modern times developed into the world's biggest football tournament with 1400 - 1600 participating teams every year...

.

Handball

The women's handball team won the Women's EHF Cup Winner's Cup

Women's EHF Cup Winner's Cup

The Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup is an official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe and takes place yearly since 1993. It is organized by the European Handball Federation...

 in 1997/1998, and again in 1998/1999. The club also reached the final in Women's European Club Championship

Women's European Club Championship

The EHF Women's Champions Trophy is an official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe. It has been organized annually by the European Handball Federation since 1994. Until 2007 it was known as the Women's European Club Championship or the Super Cup...

 the same two seasons. In 1998 Bækkelaget had the best women's team in Europe. The club still plays in the Norwegian top league, but ambitions are far lower than in their best period.

Among the former players on the female team are: Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim

Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim

Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim is a Norwegian former handball player.She played in the clubs Nordstrand IF and Bækkelagets SK. She has played in 296 games for the Norwegian National team, scoring 844 goals. Between 1993 and 2000 she was the captain of the team.She is a graduate of the Norwegian School...

, Kjersti Grini

Kjersti Grini

Kjersti Elizabeth Grini is a Norwegian former handball player.She played in the clubs Jaren, Lunner, Bækkelaget, Toten and Ikast. She has played in 201 games for the Norwegian National team, scoring 1003 goals.-References:...

, Heidi Tjugum

Heidi Tjugum

Heidi Marie Tjugum is a Norwegian team handball player and goalkeeper, and World Champion from 1999. She was born in Drammen. She received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

, Hege Kristine Kvitsand, Camilla Andersen

Camilla Andersen

Camilla Andersen is a Danish team handball player, Olympic champion and World champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She is World champion from 1997, and two times European champion, from...

, Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen is a former female handball player and currently coach.-Career:Anja Andersen is known for both her skills as an offensive player, her strong temper and courage to make dramatic scenes and daring tricks during a match. She was an important part of the renaissance in Danish handball...

, Sahra Hausmann

Sahra Hausmann

Sahra Hausmann is a Norwegian team handball player who played for the club Bækkelagets SK and on the Norway women's national handball team. She received silver medals at the World Women's Handball Championship in 1997, and became European champion in 1998...

, Siv Heim Sæbøe

Siv Heim Sæbøe

Siv Heim Sæbøe is a Norwegian team handball player who played for the club Bækkelagets SK and on the Norway women's national handball team. She became European champion in 1998....

, Cecilie Leganger

Cecilie Leganger

Cecilie Leganger is a Norwegian team handball goalkeeper, World champion, Olympic medalist, European champion, winner of Champions League, and World Player of the year 2001.-International championships:...

, Jeong-Ho Hong, Gitte Madsen

Gitte Madsen

Gitte Madsen is a Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...

, Ausra Fridrikas

Ausra Fridrikas

Ausra Fridrikas is an Austrian handball player and World champion from 1990. She first played for Soviet Union, later for Lithuania and finally for Austria. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1999 by the International Handball Federation...

, Ingrid Steen

Ingrid Steen

Ingrid Steen is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Norwegian national team, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Ingrid Steen played 161 games for the national team during her career, scoring 588...

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Orienteering

Bækkelaget won the Jukola relay

Jukola relay

The Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949. The race always takes place on Saturday between 13th and 19 June in different sites around Finland. The northernmost location has been 50 km north from the Arctic Circle...

 in 1988, 1999 and 2002. Notable orienteers who have competed for the club are Holger Hott, 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...

, Hanne Staff

Hanne Staff

Hanne Staff is a Norwegian orienteering athlete who has won three individual World Orienteering Championships medals.She retired from international orienteering at the end of the 2004 season where she became world champion in the middle distance event.Staff ran for the Norwegian orienteering club...

, Anne Margrethe Hausken

Anne Margrethe Hausken

Anne Margrethe Hausken is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, World champion and European champion. She took the overall victory in the 2008 World Cup.-World championships:...

, all world champions, and Anders Nordberg

Anders Nordberg

Anders Nordberg is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He received a bronze medal at the 2004 World Orienteering Championship, and again a bronze medal in 2007. He finished second in the overall World Cup 2007.-Biography:...

. Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen

Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen

Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and cross country skier. She was a junior World Champion in both sports. At senior level she has won a gold medal in relay at the World Orienteering Championships.-Orienteering:Bjerkreim Nilsen won a gold medal in the relay at the...

 competes in both orienteering and skiing.

Football

The men's team currently plays in the Fifth Division (fifth tier). It last played in the Fourth Division in 2008, and in the Third Division in 2004. Notable former players are Finn Seemann

Finn Seemann

Finn Ludvig Seemann was a Norwegian footballer. He was capped 15 times and scored four goals for Norway, and played for many clubs in Europe and the United States....

 and Øyvind Bolthof

Øyvind Bolthof

Øyvind Bolthof is a Norwegian football goalkeeper.His earlier clubs are Lyn, Bøler IF, Bækkelagets SK and Årvoll IL, but he joined Vålerenga already in 1995...

(youth level only).