Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo (also BUL, Oslo) is a sports club in 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...

, Norway, founded on 8 January 1913. It is one of several branches of Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo, a local chapter of Noregs Mållag

Noregs Mållag

Noregs Mållag is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk , one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language struggle, it advocates the use of Nynorsk...

 and Noregs Ungdomslag

Noregs Ungdomslag

Noregs Ungdomslag is a Norwegian cultural society formed in 1896. It has around 17,000 members and 450 local chapters.-Activities:...

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IL i BUL has sections for track and field athletics and 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....

, and has previously been active in 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...

, football 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...

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Track and field

BUL is one of the leading track and field clubs in Norway. Well known athletes are the long distance runners Ingrid Kristiansen

Ingrid Kristiansen

Ingrid Kristiansen née Christensen , was one of the best female long distance runners in the second half of the 1980s. She finished in fourth place in the first women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Career:Kristiansen started her career quite unremarkably, running 2:30 - 2:40...

 (World Champion in 1987), Thor Helland

Thor Helland

Thor Helland was a Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres.At the 1964 Summer Olympics he finished eighth in the 5000 m final in 13:57.0 minutes. He became Norwegian champion in the years 1965-1967. He represented the club IL i BUL.His personal best time was 13:37.4...

, Knut Brustad

Knut Brustad

Knut Brustad is a former Norwegian middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres. He represented Frosta IL and IL i BUL during his active career....

, Øyvind Dahl

Øyvind Dahl

Øyvind Dahl is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner. He represented IL i BUL.At the European Championships he finished fifteenth in 10,000 metres in 1978 and ninth in marathon in 1982. He also competed at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Summer Olympics as well as the World Cross...

 and Moroccan citizens Khalid Skah

Khalid Skah

Khalid Skah is a Moroccan athlete, winner of 10 000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Midelt, Morocco, Khalid Skah established himself first as a good cross country runner by winning the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1990 and 1991.His first major tournament on track was 1991 World...

 (Olympic Champion in 1992) and Abderrahim Goumri

Abderrahim Goumri

Abderrahim Goumri is a Moroccan long-distance runner. He has competed in cross country, track and road running, but is now a marathon specialist....

. Sprinters include Jaysuma Saidy Ndure

Jaysuma Saidy Ndure

Jaysuma Saidy Ndure is a Gambian-Norwegian sprinter. Having changed nationality from Gambia to Norway in 2006, he holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres, and is the seventh and fourth fastest European of all times on the two distances...

 and Ezinne Okparaebo

Ezinne Okparaebo

Ezinne Okparaebo is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Norway. She has been living in Norway since the age of nine....

, jumpers include Hanne Haugland

Hanne Haugland

Hanne Haugland is a former Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career....

 and Astrid Tveit

Astrid Tveit

Astrid Tveit is a retired Norwegian high jumper. She represented Lillehammer IF and IL i BUL.She finished tenth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships and tenth at the 1978 European Championships...

, and throwers include Stein Haugen

Stein Haugen

Stein Haugen was a Norwegian discus thrower.He was born in Lom, but represented IL i BUL. He died in March 2008 in Bærum....

 and Einar Kristian Tveitå

Einar Kristian Tveitå

Einar Kristian Tveitå is a retired Norwegian discus thrower.He finished twelfth in the discus final at the 2001 World Championships with a throw of 59.11 metres. He competed at the 1992 World Junior Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final, and also participated...

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In 1965 BUL co-formed Bislett-alliansen, together with two other sports clubs, IK Tjalve

IK Tjalve

Idrettsklubben Tjalve is a Norwegian athletics club from Oslo, founded on 27 December 1890. It is named after Þjálfi in Norse mythology.It is one of the most prominent athletics clubs in Norway, and numerous members have represented Norway in international competitions.IK Tjalve uses the Bislett...

 and SK Vidar

SK Vidar

Sportsklubben Vidar is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo. It has sections for track and field, triathlon and archery.-Organization:The club was founded in 1919. It was later a member of the Workers' Sports Federation before the war....

, and since 1966 this group has organized the annual Bislett Games

Bislett Games

The Bislett Games is an annual track and field event at the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now part of the IAAF Diamond League. It is sponsored by ExxonMobil and officially known as the ExxonMobil Bislett Games.-History:The first...

, an IAAF

International Association of Athletics Federations

The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

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Orienteering

BUL, Oslo won the first Norwegian relay championship in Orienteering in 1946. They also won the men's relay in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975, and the women's relay in 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972. Among the club's international orienteers are World Champions Åge Hadler

Åge Hadler

Åge Hadler is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, winner of the 1966 and 1972 individual World Orienteering Championships, relay champion from 1970, and individual bronze medalist from 1968.-Early life and career:...

, Ola Skarholt

Ola Skarholt

Ola Skarholt is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. He is Relay World Champion from 1970, as a member of the Norwegian winning team. He also has bronze medals from 1966 and 1968.-References:...

, Ingrid Hadler

Ingrid Hadler

Ingrid Hadler is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. She won the 1970 Individual World Orienteering Championships in Eisenach, and received a silver medal in Linköping in 1968...

 and Astrid Rødmyr

Astrid Rødmyr

Astrid Rødmyr is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and World champion. She won a gold medal in the 1968 World Orienteering Championships with the Norwegian Relay team. She received a bronze medal in 1970.-References:...

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Skiing

Among the skiers who have competed for IL i BUL, are cross country skiers Johan Grøttumsbråten

Johan Grøttumsbråten

Johan Grøttumsbråten was a Norwegian skier who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s and early 1930s, he won several medals in the early Winter Olympics. Most notably, he won two gold medals at the 1928 Winter Olympics, and as one of the only two dual...

 and Odd Martinsen

Odd Martinsen

Odd Martinsen was a Norwegian cross country skier who competed during the 1960s and 1970's. He won three medals at the Winter Olympics, a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay , and silvers in the 30 km and the 4 x 10 km relay...

, both Olympic Champions and World Champions, Bjarne Iversen

Bjarne Iversen

Bjarne Iversen was a Norwegian cross country skier who competed in the 1930s. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 10km relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen....

, Henry Hermansen

Henry Hermansen

Henry Hermansen was a Norwegian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.-External links:*...

, Heidi Weng

Heidi Weng

Heidi Weng is a Norwegian cross-country skier and fell runner.In cross country skiing her best individual World Cup finish is a thirteenth place at 10 km event in Sjusjøen in November 2011...

 and ski jumper

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...

 Sigurd Sollid

Sigurd Sollid

Sigurd Sollid was a Norwegian ski jumper who competed in the 1930's. He won a ski jumping bronze at the 1937 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix.-External links:...

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Football

The football team was among the pioneers of women's football in Norway. The women's team played in the highest league in Norway as late as in 1991

Norwegian First Division 1991 (women's football)

The 1991 season of the 1. divisjon, the highest women's football league in Norway, began on 27 April 1991 and ended on 12 October 1991.18 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

. It is now defunct.