Idrettslaget Tyrving 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 Sandvika

Sandvika

is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway. It was declared a city by the municipal council in Bærum on 4 June 2003.Sandvika is situated approximately west of Oslo. It is the main transportation hub for Western Bærum, and has a combined bus and railway station. Sandvika is...

, founded in 1922. It has sections for athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

 and 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...

. It is named after Tyrfing

Tyrfing

Tyrfing or Tirfing was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which figures in a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and in Hervarar saga...

 in Norse mythology.

IL Tyrving uses the stadium Nadderud stadion

Nadderud stadion

Nadderud stadion is a multi-purpose stadium at Nadderud near Bekkestua, in Bærum, Norway.-Association football:It is currently used mostly for track and field meets and football matches, and is the home ground of the Norwegian Toppserien team Stabæk Fotball...

, and hosts the annual Tyrvinglekene, the largest athletics meet in Norway. The club has hosted one international event, the European Cup B Final in 2000. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/epb.htm

Among its most prominent members are Berit Berthelsen

Berit Berthelsen

Berit Berthelsen, née Tøien is a retired athlete from Norway. She represented IL Tyrving.She dominated long jump and sprints events in the Nordic countries during the 1960s. At the Nordic Championships in 1965 she won five gold medals...

, winner of two European Indoor Championships and national record holder in the long jump, and Christina Vukicevic

Christina Vukicevic

Ljubica Christina Vukicevic is a Norwegian hurdler of Serbian and Norwegian descent...

, silver medalist in 100 m hurdles at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2006 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held from 15 August to 20 August at the Chaoyang Sports Center in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China....

. Romanian Olympic high jumper Adrian Proteasa

Adrian Proteasa

Adrian Proteasa is a retired Romanian high jumper.Proteasa won the bronze medal at the 1980 European Indoor Championships and finished seventh at the 1980 Olympic Games...

has also represented Tyrving, although well past his active career. http://www.friidrett.no/akershus/files/{69B952D6-9364-4EDA-B79A-94E01F5A7E65}.doc

External links

• Official site