IF Urædd

IF Urædd is a Norwegian sports club from Porsgrunn, founded in 1880. Since 8 December 1993 it has been an alliance sports team, with independent sections for football, handball, sport wrestling, skiing, gymnastics, basketball, athletics and speed skating.

Its football section Urædd FK, athletics section Urædd Friidrett and handball section Urædd Håndball are most well-known nationwide.

Urædd Friidrett

Infobox athletics club
clubname = Urædd


fullname = Urædd Friidrett
founded = 1917
ground = Kjølnes stadion Porsgrunn

Urædd Friidrett is the athletics department of the alliance club IF Urædd from Porsgrunn, which was founded in 1880. The athletics section within IF Urædd was established in 1917.

The athletics team uses the stadium Kjølnes stadion.

Its most prominent members are Lars Arvid Nilsen, Georg Andersen, Svein Inge Valvik and Olav Jenssen, who all competed in throwing events. Andersen and Nilsen originally won the silver and bronze medals in shot put at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics, but Andersen was disqualified and lost the medal due to a doping offence.

Urædd Fotball

The men's football team currently resides in the Norwegian Third Division.

External links

* [http://www.xn--urdd-woa.no/historie.html Official site] no icon
** [http://www.uraeddfriidrett.no/index.htm Official site - athletics section] no icon