Åge Hadler

Åge Hadler, 2009

Åge Hadler (born August 14, 1944 in Bergen ) is a former Norwegian orienteer . He was individual world champion in 1966 and 1972 and world champion with the Norwegian relay in 1970.

career

In October 1966, the first world orienteering championships were held in Fiskars, Finland . There had already been European championships in 1962 and 1964 , but the young Hadler had not yet taken part. In 1966, the 22-year-old Hadler was part of the Norwegian World Cup squad. At the Nordic Championships he won gold with the relay last year and finished seventh in the individual race. However, five of his compatriots were placed in front of him, above all Peer H. Staff , who had won the Nordic championship. In Fiskars, Hadler managed a good run on the 16.5 km long route: He won the world title ahead of the Finn Aimo Tepsell . Hadler won a bronze medal with the Norwegian team.

At the 1968 World Championships in Linköping , Sweden , he took part with his wife Ingrid , whom he had married less than two months earlier. While his wife took second place in the individual competition, Hadler was able to take third place in the men's race behind the two Swedes Karl Johansson and Sture Björk . With the relay, he won his third bronze medal.

In 1969 Hadler became Nordic Champion and did not appear as an outsider at the 1970 World Championships . However, he only reached eighth place in the victory of his compatriot Stig Berge . In the relay race, the Norwegian team was successful for the first time at world championships. Together with Ola Skarholt , Stig Berge and Per Fosser , he won his second World Cup gold medal as the final runner. In 1971 he defended his Nordic championship title and also won gold with the Norwegian B-season together with Per Fosser, Jostein Nilsen and Eystein Weltzien .

1972 Hadler for the fourth time at world championships. In Staré Splavy , Czechoslovakia , Åge Hadler won ahead of Stig Berge and thus became individual world champion for the second time since 1966. The Norwegian relay was not included in the rating. In 1973 and 1975 he started again at Nordic Championships but was only able to win another medal in 1973 with the relay with silver.

Others

Åge Hadler, who was born in Bergen in 1944 to Aage Hadler and his wife Ruth Karin Rosendahl, joined the Bergens Turnforening sports club at an early age . He later played for the Oslo clubs IL i BUL and IL Tyrving . On August 17, 1968, he married the orienteer Ingrid Thoresen . Hadler studied at the University of Oslo and graduated in 1970.

Placements

	WM		NM		Nat. Master class
year	E.	St.	E.	St.	E.	St.	N
1965			7th	1.
1966	1.	3.
1967			5.	4th
1968	3.	3.
1969			1.	dsq.
1970	8th.	1.
1971			1.	1.
1972	1.	dsq.
1973			10.	2.
1974
1975			17th	4th
Explanation: E = individual competition, St = relay, N = night orienteering

Between 1966 and 1975 Hadler won eight Norwegian championship titles. In 1968 he won the O-ring in Borås , Sweden .

Web links

• Hadler in the Norske Leksikon store
• old.orienteering.no: World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 ( Memento from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) World Cup results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ snl.no: Åge Hadler