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is the governing body of Track & Field in Norway.
Norges Fri-idrettsforbund is nationally a member the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports who governs all sports in Norway.
Internationally Norges Fri-idrettsforbund is member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (I.A.A.F.) and the European Athletics (E.A.).
Norges Fri-idrettsforbund was founded 1 May 1896 and consists today of 19 district organisastion and close to 850 member-clubs throughout Norway, with approximately 75.000 individual members.

Norges Fri-idrettsforbund
can be contacted at our offices at:
Postal: Serviceboks 1 Ullevaal Stadion,
N-0840 OSLO
Norway.
Visit: Sognsvn. 75 J, Oslo
Phone: +47 21 02 90 00
Telefax: +47 21 02 99 01
E-mail: friidrett@friidrett.no

President: Svein Arne Hansen
General Secretary: Kjetil Hildeskor

Members of federation council.

This Internet site
is for the most part meant for our domestic Norwegian speaking audience.
We appologise for not putting in the resources needed for keeping an English language version for all our friends around the world.
We will though give you some keyword translations and links that might give you enough to provide you with some statistics and facts about Norges Fri-idrettsforbund and Norwegian athletics.
Lots of statistics are included in our pages. You will find links to results and statistics, past and present further down in this document. Inside each statistics many words are in Norwegian only, but most interested people will easily understand much of it, combined with the list keyword below.

Keywords and internal links

All links on this page points to pages written for a Norwegian audience and therefore in the Norwegian language.
With a little help and some translations I am sure that you still can get something interesting out of the pages containing facts like statistics an records.
So here are a short list of terms in Norwegian and English.
Høyde = High jump
Kvinner = Women
Stav = Pole vault
Menn = Menn
Lengde = Long jump
Hekk = Hurdles
Tresteg = Triple jump
Hinder = Steeplechase
Kule = Shot put
Rekord = Record
Diskos = Discus throw
Innendørs = Indoor
Slegge = Hammer throw
Bestenotering = Best Performance
Spyd = Javelin throw 

You will also find Lengde and Høyde with the addition "uten tilløp" which equals the old events of Standing Long jump and Standing High jump, both traditional indoor events still surviving from the days before indoor facilities could host todays events.

Here are som internal links to pages with records and statistics:
National Records
Progression of National records
This year best list men and women - indoor and outdoor
Historical yearlists past years
Norway All time best
National championships
Complete resultlists from this years Norwegian meetings
Complete resultlists from past years Norwegian meetings
Norway in international athletics