Olav Lundanes

Olav Lundanes, born on 11 November 1987, is a Norwegian orienteering competitor from Ålesund who runs for Halden SK. He has won gold at the World Orienteering Championships ten times and at the European Orienteering Championships four times. At the 2005 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Tenero he won the long distance and the relay, and in 2007 he won the junior long and middle distances. His first senior world title came in the long distance in Trondheim in 2010, and he later won long distance gold in 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2014 in Asiago he took middle distance gold after Thierry Gueorgiou was disqualified for unknowingly skipping a control. He also won 23 Norwegian national championships and finished second in the overall World Cup in 2012 and 2017.