Petter Thoresen (orienteering)
Petter Thoresen ( born March 10, 1966) is a former Norwegian orienteers and five -time world champion.
In 1989 he became a world championship debutant World Champion on the long distance as well as the season ( in a team with Øyvin Thon, Rolf Vestre and Håvard Tveite ). After contrast rather bad for him 1991 World Championships he made at the Nordic Championships 1992 in Rena stir. Thoresen won both individual events before the Dane Allan Mogensen and won a third gold in the relay as the final runners with Bjørnar Valstad, Håvard Tveite and Anders Bjørnsgaard. At the Nordic Championships the following year he won silver in all three of these competitions. In 1993, he won his third gold medal at the world championships. On the short distance that was added to the World Championship program in 1991, he won ahead of Finland's Timo Karppinen, the competition over the long haul, he finished in third place. The following year he secured the overall World Cup. In 1997, he was the second time after 1989 World Champion on the long distance, with the season he was third. His fifth world championship gold he finally won in 1999 in the Scottish Inverness with the relay (gates Sandvik, Bernt Bjørnsgaard and Bjørnar Valstad ).
Thoresen was a member of the Norwegian Orienteering top clubs Halden SK, with whom he won the Jukola Relay in Finland 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2003. He had won in 1988 with his previous club SK Bækkelagets this competition. With heaps besides, he won six times at the Tiomila in Sweden.