Nordre Land 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...

 sports club from Dokka

Dokka

Dokka is the administrative centre of Nordre Land municipality, in Oppland county, Norway.Highway 33 comes from the south, along the east side of Randsfjorden, Norway's fourth largest lake. The highway continues northwest to the municipality of Etnedal and to the village of Bjørgo in Nord-Aurdal...

, Nordre Land

Nordre Land

Nordre Land is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Land. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dokka....

, Oppland

Oppland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

. It has sections for association football, team 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...

, Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

, 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...

, cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

, equestrianism

Equestrianism

Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...

, swimming, judo

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

, gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

 and track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

. It was founded in 1912.

The men's football team plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. Its current spell runs from 2008

2008 Norwegian Third Division

The 2008 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.Between 18 and 26 games were played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

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Footballers who started their career in Nordre Land include Joachim Sørum

Joachim Sørum

Joachim Sørum is a Norwegian footballer.-Career:Born in Dokka, Sørum is a defender, and normally plays in the mid-defence....

 and Olav Dalen

Olav Dalen

Olav Dalen is a Norwegian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Randaberg.He was born in Gjøvik, and started his career in Nordre Land IL. He went on to Raufoss IL and Ullensaker/Kisa IL. He was also loaned out to Lillestrøm SK. He joined Kongsvinger IL after the 2008 season. In 2010 he made...

. Well-known skiers include Hans Vinjarengen

Hans Vinjarengen

Hans Vinjarengen was a Norwegian skier who competed in nordic combined in the 1920s and early 1930s. He won a Nordic combined silver at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St...

, Ole Kolterud

Ole Kolterud

Ole Kolterud was a Norwegian skier.He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where he placed 8th in the Nordic combined....

 and Sverre Kolterud

Sverre Kolterud

Sverre Cristiansen Kolterud was a Norwegian Nordic combined skier who competed in the 1930s.He was born in Dokka and died in Oslo....

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