Ã…ge Hadler

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

Career

In October 1966, the world championships were held in orienteering in the Finnish Fiskars first time. Although there had been 1962 and 1964 European Championships, but in these the young Hadler had not yet participated. 1966 was the 22- jähirge Hadler to the Norwegian World Cup squad. At the Nordic Championships he won gold in the relay last year and finished seventh in the individual competition. However, while five of his compatriots were placed in front of him, especially Peer H. Staff, who had won the Nordic championship. Add Fiskars Hadler succeeded on the 16.5 km stretch a good run, winning the world title ahead of the Finn Aimo Tepsell. With the Norwegian team Hadler could still win a bronze medal.

At the World Championships in 1968 in Linköping, Sweden, he participated with his wife Ingrid, who he had not even married two months earlier. While his wife took second place in the individual competition, Hadler was in third place in the course of the men behind the two Swedes Karl Johansson and Sture Björk. With the season he won his third bronze medal total.

1969 Hadler was Nordic Champion and thus not entered in the World Championships 1970 as an outsider. However, it was only the eighth place in the victory of his compatriot Stig mountains. In the relay race the Norwegian team was first successfully at world championships. Together with Ola Skarholt, Stig mountains and Per Fosser he won his second World Championship gold medal final runner. In 1971 he defended his Nordic Champion title and also won the Norwegian B- season together with Per Fosser, Jostein Nilsen and Eystein Weltzien gold.

1972 Hadler approached at World Championships for the fourth time. In Czechoslovak Staré Splavy Åge Hadler won before Stig mountains and thus became the second time after 1966 individual world champion. However, the Norwegian season came not in the standings. 1973 and 1975 he started again at the Nordic Championships but won only in 1973 with the squadron with another medal silver.

Others

Åge Hadler, who was born in 1944 in Bergen as a son of Aage Hadler and his wife Ruth Karin Rosendahl occurred early in the Sports Club of Bergen Turnforening. Later he went to Oslo for the club 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

Between 1966 and 1975 Hadler won eight Norwegian championship. In 1968 he won in Boras, Sweden, the O-rings.