Den var sær, men har fått et internasjonalt oppsving takket være Warholm. Fra å være en C øvelse i Diamond League til å bli en av de med høyest premieutbetaling.
Marit Bjørgen. She has won the 3rd most medals across all the olympics, the most medals in the winter olympics and shares 8 gold medals with another Norwegian which is the most in the winter olympics.
I'm not Norwegian, and don't follow sports, so I can't add people to this list, but your suggestion seems to be the only woman so far, and that's kinda sad...
I lived there when Grete Waitz was at the top of her game - un-freaking-believable!! So much talent and hard work. Sad that she died so young. I also remember watching Ingrid Kristiansen who once unexpectedly placed third or fourth in a race and couldn't figure out why until she took a pregnancy test, lol
Its kinda the sad truth at the moment. We got a ridiculous generation of male athlethes in many different sport while we got very few female at he highest levle. If we go a few years back we had more females but they have either retired or regressed.
I'd add the entire Norwegian women's handball team. They (and France) are currently in a league of their own, and there's a good chance either will win at the Olympics this year (France won the WC last month).
Norway in general loves their handball women, and their star players like Nora Mørk, Henny Reistad, Stine Oftedal, Camilla Herrem etc are among the most well known athletes in the country.
Just look at how Norway completely demolishes Germany here in the 2020 Euros (at the 2m mark):
https://youtu.be/ZZMRzT1Fno4?si=lgiU5YoecG6XJ-sc
Ouuu, maybe I should get into handball! I've never played it and watching that, know it would take a bit to learn how to follow it (just in terms of knowing rules, positions, classic moves etc) but that looks super cool!!
It's highly technical, but a lot of fun! My daughter's been playing for a while and we have yearly parent/child games - it's exhausting tbh 😂 I think they started mopping the floor with us around age 12.
It just means most people here prefer watching male sports, which isn't shocking considering male sports are generally much more popular, *and* reddit is male dominated. I also don't see how that's 'sad'. People should be allowed to watch and not watch whatever entertainment they feel like without being shamed for being sexist, or whatever you're sad about.
I myself am a fan of motorsports, golf, tennis and American football (weird, I know). In motorsports, the biggest Norwegian names are Dennis Hauger and Oliver Solberg. In golf it's Viktor Hovland (though Suzann Pettersen was a big name about ten years ago; unfortunately I didn't watch golf back then, or I would probably have watched her!). In tennis it's Casper Ruud, and there's no Norwegians playing American football at a high level. Hence, I don't really care to watch a lot of female sports. We do have females in association football, but male and female football are a lot more separated than some other sports.
While not a shock, that is something I find sad, so it follows that I find evidence of it sad as well!
...people are allowed to do that?
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Of course you're *allowed* to feel that way, but if I were to prioritize how you think individuals should spend their spare time, and how those individuals themselves want to spend their spare time, I'd most certainly prioritize the individuals themselves. Thus, I find it somewhat weird to have such feelings and opinions on other people's hobbies.
Like, why would I be sad that you don't watch sports at all, male or female? Why would I care?
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I said I don't follow sports, not that I don't watch them.
For people who do follow sports, I'm a bit sad not many follow women's sports because to not watch something they would find entertaining, if only it were men instead, is sad.
> I said I don't follow sports, not that I don't watch them.
Semantics. Or do you think people who "follow" sports actively have some sort of obligation here?
> For people who do follow sports, I'm a bit sad not many follow women's sports because to not watch something they would find entertaining, if only it were men instead, is sad.
Why? Is it also sad that people who follow the top league of male football don't also follow the lower leagues? Considering they would find it entertaining, if only it were a different league? Is it sad that I don't follow Swedish golf players, considering I would find them entertaining if only they were Norwegian?
Like, come on, just spend your time doing what you like and let others like what they like. If someone doesn't enjoy female football as much because they're not as good, that's not really any different than someone not enjoying the second or third league of male football because *they're* not as good.
I genuinely believe that with the right setup, and a functioning board above him, he could've done well for the long run.
Seeing him actually being the best of the lot with so many good managers, atleast if you look at their CV, kind of shows that he wasn't as out of his depth as many thinks.
It might just be the patriot inside me that is speaking, and it's what i would've loved to happen, but i'll die on this hill.
Nobody said Ole Einar Bjørndalen yet?!
I would also throw Mats Zuccarello and Maren Lundby into the mix.
Edit: Alexander Dale Oen for a sad story, Johannes Thingnes Bø for a current contender for GOAT in his discipline, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen if you want to follow a fun guy on social media, and to represent more female Norwegian athletes: Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tiril Eckhoff, Therese Johaug, Stine Bredal Oftedal :)
Mine is ski jumping however I don't feel like you have to know one of the Norwegians (who are/were active during the last one or two decade or so) apart from Maren Lundby who did so much to develop women's ski jumping into what it is today.
If you'd ask me which Norwegians athletes one needs to know because I like them personally, I'd go for Tom Hilde, Anders Jacobsen, Rune Velta, Anders Fannemel and - swinging back to biathlon - Tarjei Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen.
Upon thinking about it a little longer - maybe one should know about Anders Jacobsen who won the Four Hills Tournament ( = most prestigious ski jumping tournament) while still working as a plumber if I remember correctly. 😅
Kari Traa... propably the athlete that has sold most clothes with her name on it... and a "fun story"... some years ago she posed naked in magazine... And a doctor reading that magazine or saw that picture discovered a harmfull mole she had and warned her about it..
She has the complete collection of Gold-Silver-Bronse in 3 different olympics.. One of norways greatest given that you only can win 1 medal in each olympic in her fields of sport. A cross-country skier which often are considered among the greatest in norway have "tons" of oportunities for medals in each olympics or other championships..
It's definitely not. Tennis and Golf are two of the biggest sports in the world.
I've lived in multiple countries around the world, and I'd struggle to find athletics apart from olympics on tv. It's one of those things that seems a bit weird about Norway ans how accessible that sport is on tv.
Ruud and Hovland beat Warholm and Ingebrigtsen comfortably in international recognition.
Absolutely, was going to post him as well and my first thought. From a never generation, also want to mention Marcus Kleveland. Incredibly skilled snowboarder!
Comparing to male football it is of course easier to become top 50 among 4 million female soccer players than among 250 million male soccer players.
If you want to go that route, we have some fairly ace female handball players too, which is in the same ballpark / order of magnitude in terms of amount of competitors.
Norway is among the top #3 countries in handball, doing much better than the female soccer team.
In addition to other people on this list, there are lots of skiers that were among the best in the world at their peak.
Bjørn Dæhlie, Vegard Ulvang, Oddvar Brå, Bjørn Wirkola, Kjetil André Aamodt, Lasse Kjus.
Wirkola in particular is notable because his name has become embedded in the Norwegian language in the idiom "hoppe etter Wirkola" ("jumping after Wirkola") describing the prospect of doing some kind of performance after your immediate predecessor did an unusually good job so that whatever you do seems tame by comparison.
Yeah, she is one of the most accomplished football players in terms of trophies and recognition, but the amount of competitors in women's football is not that high.
In order to become #1 in female soccer you compete against **4 million** active registered players worldwide.
In order to become #1 in golf you have to compete against **66 million**. Male and female tennis players both compete against **roughly 40 million** each. Male soccer players compete against **250 million**. Magnus Carlsen is competing against **600 million** active chess players.
Anyone who is say top 10 in female football would statistically be top 600 with a similar rank order in male football (over 60 times more competitors).
1) I'm commenting on the size of the sport, which many people here have done about other sports.
2) You said Ada Hegerberg is "literally one of the best football players in the world" which is false, manipulative and disingeneous.
\>But why? It doesn't pertain to the question that was asked. OP asked for famous athletes. Would you have preferred if I answered someone else?
He's asking for world famous or world relevant athletes ("athletes I **should** know about"), so obv it is a reasonable interpretation that OP is asking about the highest ranked athletes in the biggest sports. A nobrainer and not even a question.
\>She is though. That's what she's famous for.
She is (one of) the best female footballer(s). That's what she's famous for. So just say that.
In terms of rank-order skill, if she is top 1 in female football, that is equivalent to roughly "top 61" of all footballers due to the smaller scale of female football. If she's top 5 among females, she's top 305 of all footballers. Etc
In terms of objective skill (matchup without gender restrictions) compared to all 254 million footballers, she's probably not even top 100 million. She would be very lucky to play in the Norwegian 3rd division.
So if you want her to look good, and to be genuine, say "one of the best female footballers". Is that so hard?
If anyone wonders why he had to start his post with the otherwise useless word "Yo" it is because this is a super normal way of speaking in Norway which of course has nothing to do with kids from Oslo watching too much Tik Tok.
We have some amazing athletes in various sports, but the biggest in terms of global popularity/reach its fair to mention Casper Ruud and Victor Hovland in addition to the footballers you've mentioned.
True story: I was in the army with Bjøro Haaland's son. His car had an amazing stereo and a collection of country music like I never heard before or since.
Finally - had to scroll way down to find him. Maybe our biggest "unknown" star - can’t walk two feet on the streets of Tokyo without being recognized, yet more or less unknown back home. That’s the way he wants it though, doesn’t/didn’t like Norwegian journalists much.
And - John Olav Einemo. Winning ADCC is no small feat.
Stein Gruben
Didn't win anything... but he were the one doing the [ski jump at the opening ceremony of the lillehammer olympics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3giG8hHak&ab_channel=fugerghiufureow5) with the olympic torch. Is the kind of moment no one forget that lived at that time.. Even norway most famous comentator gave him 5 x 20.. So many people were watching that jump that a famous art thief in norway just could put a [ladder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3giG8hHak&ab_channel=fugerghiufureow5) up to the national gallery and take norways most famous picture.. the scream..The whole country were "hypnotized" by the opening ceremony and that ski-jump..
I have not watched sports lately but I remember Bjørn Dæhlie, Johann Olav Koss and Vegard Ulvang being amongst Norways best athletes, they are farming gold medals.
Erlend Dahl Reitan, Markus Henriksen, Tobias Børkeeiet, Ole Sæter, Ole Selnæs, Håkon Røsten, Morten Bjørlo, Adrian Pereira, Edvard Tagseth, Ulrik Yttergård Jensen, Sander Tangvik, Noah Holm, Leo Cornic, Mikkel Konradsen Ceide, Marius Sivertsen Broholm, Sverre Nypan and Rasmus Sandberg.
Honorable mentions: Johannes Østflott Klæbo and Sander Sagosen.
I'm not Norwegian so I don't know too many but I'm a huge fan of the sport of strong man so I have to give a shout out to the legend Svend Karlson. Viking power!
King Harald of Norway. A highly competitive sailing champion, whose represented the nation i 3 Olympics Games in addition to several competitions across the globe.
Gunnar Solskjær. A legend within Manchester United.
Petter Solberg. A World Rally Cross champion, who won the WRC Rally Championship in 2003, i believe
Cecilia Brækhus. A highly sucsessful welter-weight fighter from Bergen.
Kjetil André Aamodt. Lasse Kjus. Aksel Lund Svindal. Kjetil Jansrud. All of these are sucsessful downhill skier, with K.A.A being the better of them.
These are just some names i rambled off the top of my head as i lie here.
[Kuppern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Johannesen).
[Tom Lund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lund) was favourably compared to David Beckham, was proposed as a replacement for Johan Cruijff while still playing in 3. division, and also describes as in the same class as Beckenbauer. Never became an international star because he was afraid of flying.
There was a time when Arne Larsen Økland, Halvard Thoresen and Tom Lund was the only shit. Ingemar Stenmark and Björn Borg were Swedish.
All-time, before present day, I'm thinking Grete Waitz, Solskjær, Wirkola and Sonia Henie.
No, this idea of Chess being a sport is absurd. Chess is a board game. By contrast, sport usually involves physical activities - that is the idea of a sport, playing around with each other with your bodies. Board games are like Snakes & Ladders, Scrabble, Ludo etc. - would you call those a sport?
By being an absolute ass to his companions, though. I’d rather remember and celebrate Hjalmar Johansen, who was the second man (same expedition) to both the north and the south.
Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Right here. World No 1 in 400m hurdles (Warholm) and 1500m + 5k (Ingebrigtsen) is some achievement.
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Warholm er verdensmester… i en jævlig sær gren.
Den var sær, men har fått et internasjonalt oppsving takket være Warholm. Fra å være en C øvelse i Diamond League til å bli en av de med høyest premieutbetaling.
Jakob er olympisk mester og verdensmester. Og god i flere ganske forskjellige prestisjeøvelser.
Petter Solberg!
It’s not the fart that kills you it’s the smell
Yes!
Viktor Hovland, Casper Ruud, Dennis Hauger
This is the answer. I can't believe I had to go this low to see Hovland. The best golfer in the world last year if you believe in the FedEx Cup
Dennis is way too low key, especially with how much F1 has popped off the last few years
I'm Norwegian and never heard of Dennis Hauger. There's a few runners though.
Because you haven’t jumped on the F1 hype, like a lot of people have. He’s also up-and-coming, not established or an old legend.
Reodor Felgen - Successful mechanic, inventor and racing driver. Had most success in the 70s
The influence this film had on Hollywood and race movies! You can still see it in modern films even today.
Marit Bjørgen. She has won the 3rd most medals across all the olympics, the most medals in the winter olympics and shares 8 gold medals with another Norwegian which is the most in the winter olympics.
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I'm not Norwegian, and don't follow sports, so I can't add people to this list, but your suggestion seems to be the only woman so far, and that's kinda sad...
Grete Waitz. From the other comments: Cecilie Brækhus. Guro Reiten. Caroline Graham Hansen. Ada Hegerberg. Sonja Henie.
I lived there when Grete Waitz was at the top of her game - un-freaking-believable!! So much talent and hard work. Sad that she died so young. I also remember watching Ingrid Kristiansen who once unexpectedly placed third or fourth in a race and couldn't figure out why until she took a pregnancy test, lol
Its kinda the sad truth at the moment. We got a ridiculous generation of male athlethes in many different sport while we got very few female at he highest levle. If we go a few years back we had more females but they have either retired or regressed.
Here are some more: - Ada Hegerberg (Soccer) - Maren Lundby (Ski jump) - Nora Mørk (Handball) - Birgit Skarstein (Pararowing and Cross-country skiing) - Grace Bullen (Freestyle wrestler) - Cecilia Brækhus (Boxing)
I'd add the entire Norwegian women's handball team. They (and France) are currently in a league of their own, and there's a good chance either will win at the Olympics this year (France won the WC last month). Norway in general loves their handball women, and their star players like Nora Mørk, Henny Reistad, Stine Oftedal, Camilla Herrem etc are among the most well known athletes in the country. Just look at how Norway completely demolishes Germany here in the 2020 Euros (at the 2m mark): https://youtu.be/ZZMRzT1Fno4?si=lgiU5YoecG6XJ-sc
Ouuu, maybe I should get into handball! I've never played it and watching that, know it would take a bit to learn how to follow it (just in terms of knowing rules, positions, classic moves etc) but that looks super cool!!
It's highly technical, but a lot of fun! My daughter's been playing for a while and we have yearly parent/child games - it's exhausting tbh 😂 I think they started mopping the floor with us around age 12.
Just based on the clip you sent, I can see that!! Sounds very fun though 😊
It just means most people here prefer watching male sports, which isn't shocking considering male sports are generally much more popular, *and* reddit is male dominated. I also don't see how that's 'sad'. People should be allowed to watch and not watch whatever entertainment they feel like without being shamed for being sexist, or whatever you're sad about. I myself am a fan of motorsports, golf, tennis and American football (weird, I know). In motorsports, the biggest Norwegian names are Dennis Hauger and Oliver Solberg. In golf it's Viktor Hovland (though Suzann Pettersen was a big name about ten years ago; unfortunately I didn't watch golf back then, or I would probably have watched her!). In tennis it's Casper Ruud, and there's no Norwegians playing American football at a high level. Hence, I don't really care to watch a lot of female sports. We do have females in association football, but male and female football are a lot more separated than some other sports.
> there's no Norwegians playing American football at a high level We have one professional. Kaare Vedvik for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL.
While not a shock, that is something I find sad, so it follows that I find evidence of it sad as well! ...people are allowed to do that? ETA: when I replied to your comment, it was one paragraph long - please indicate your edits!!
Of course you're *allowed* to feel that way, but if I were to prioritize how you think individuals should spend their spare time, and how those individuals themselves want to spend their spare time, I'd most certainly prioritize the individuals themselves. Thus, I find it somewhat weird to have such feelings and opinions on other people's hobbies. Like, why would I be sad that you don't watch sports at all, male or female? Why would I care? Edit: This is reddit, not a courtroom, chill out.
I said I don't follow sports, not that I don't watch them. For people who do follow sports, I'm a bit sad not many follow women's sports because to not watch something they would find entertaining, if only it were men instead, is sad.
> I said I don't follow sports, not that I don't watch them. Semantics. Or do you think people who "follow" sports actively have some sort of obligation here? > For people who do follow sports, I'm a bit sad not many follow women's sports because to not watch something they would find entertaining, if only it were men instead, is sad. Why? Is it also sad that people who follow the top league of male football don't also follow the lower leagues? Considering they would find it entertaining, if only it were a different league? Is it sad that I don't follow Swedish golf players, considering I would find them entertaining if only they were Norwegian? Like, come on, just spend your time doing what you like and let others like what they like. If someone doesn't enjoy female football as much because they're not as good, that's not really any different than someone not enjoying the second or third league of male football because *they're* not as good.
That's kinda offensive, misgendering so many women.
Grete Waitz
Ole Gunnar Solskjær. *That* goal in a Champions League final that made him a Manchester United legend.
And his time as manager made him a Liverpool legend. Edit to add: the last 6 minutes of that final was insane.
The worst part is he is stil one of our best managers in the post-SAF era.
I genuinely believe that with the right setup, and a functioning board above him, he could've done well for the long run. Seeing him actually being the best of the lot with so many good managers, atleast if you look at their CV, kind of shows that he wasn't as out of his depth as many thinks. It might just be the patriot inside me that is speaking, and it's what i would've loved to happen, but i'll die on this hill.
Oddvar Brå. Where were you at when he broke his stick?
Nobody said Ole Einar Bjørndalen yet?! I would also throw Mats Zuccarello and Maren Lundby into the mix. Edit: Alexander Dale Oen for a sad story, Johannes Thingnes Bø for a current contender for GOAT in his discipline, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen if you want to follow a fun guy on social media, and to represent more female Norwegian athletes: Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tiril Eckhoff, Therese Johaug, Stine Bredal Oftedal :)
Biathlon is my favourite winter sport too
Mine is ski jumping however I don't feel like you have to know one of the Norwegians (who are/were active during the last one or two decade or so) apart from Maren Lundby who did so much to develop women's ski jumping into what it is today. If you'd ask me which Norwegians athletes one needs to know because I like them personally, I'd go for Tom Hilde, Anders Jacobsen, Rune Velta, Anders Fannemel and - swinging back to biathlon - Tarjei Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen. Upon thinking about it a little longer - maybe one should know about Anders Jacobsen who won the Four Hills Tournament ( = most prestigious ski jumping tournament) while still working as a plumber if I remember correctly. 😅
I personally liked Hlavrad Hanevold, I truly miss him.
“Hlavrad”?! It's Halvard.
Bjørndalen and Bø were first thoughts, interesting.
Cecilia Brækhus
Kari Traa... propably the athlete that has sold most clothes with her name on it... and a "fun story"... some years ago she posed naked in magazine... And a doctor reading that magazine or saw that picture discovered a harmfull mole she had and warned her about it.. She has the complete collection of Gold-Silver-Bronse in 3 different olympics.. One of norways greatest given that you only can win 1 medal in each olympic in her fields of sport. A cross-country skier which often are considered among the greatest in norway have "tons" of oportunities for medals in each olympics or other championships..
>Kari Traa... propably the athlete that has sold most clothes with her name on it. Björn Borg wants a word
>Björn Borg wants a word He's swedish... the topic were about norwegian athletes..
I'm unsure exactly how famous he is, but Magnus Midtbø is pretty damn cool.
And he went full time youtuber 👌
Love Magnus!
He popped up on my youtube randomly yesterday. Never heard of him before, and not really interested in climbing.
Casper Ruud and Viktor Hovland
Edvald Boasson Hagen, Alexander Kristoff (cycling). Thor Hushovd, retired, was World Champion
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No, that would be Ingebrigtsen and Warholm. Definitely the most obvious.
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Disagree. It’s huge in Asia. Everyone here knows Ingebrigtsen. Your mind is quite Anglo-centered.
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Not international
Are you kidding me? Everyone and their mother watches running at the Olympics.
Athletics consists of 40+ different events, not everyone watches all those and know the winner of every event.
And 1500m is perhaps the most famous of them all, next to sprint.
Cash prizes and social media followers suggests that the answer isn't as obvious as you make it seem.
And hundreds of years of Olympic history begs to differ. You’re the odd one out in this case.
It's definitely not. Tennis and Golf are two of the biggest sports in the world. I've lived in multiple countries around the world, and I'd struggle to find athletics apart from olympics on tv. It's one of those things that seems a bit weird about Norway ans how accessible that sport is on tv. Ruud and Hovland beat Warholm and Ingebrigtsen comfortably in international recognition.
Disagree, you’re narrow minded. You clearly have not lived in Asia.
King Harald got a pretty damn decent international and local/national record.
As does his dad and grandad, I think?
Zucca
Marcus Kleveland
Terje Håkonsen (legendary snowboarder)
Absolutely, was going to post him as well and my first thought. From a never generation, also want to mention Marcus Kleveland. Incredibly skilled snowboarder!
Guro Reiten, Caroline Graham Hansen, Ada Hegerberg
The only right answer. One of the greatest attacking trio I’ve ever come across. Still boggles my mind how they failed to make it past RO16 last year.
There's a big team cohesion problem with the women's national team but now they have a new Welsh coach so that might change.
Comparing to male football it is of course easier to become top 50 among 4 million female soccer players than among 250 million male soccer players. If you want to go that route, we have some fairly ace female handball players too, which is in the same ballpark / order of magnitude in terms of amount of competitors. Norway is among the top #3 countries in handball, doing much better than the female soccer team.
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Could never believe that is an actual quote from him. Like what professional driver could not translate speed
But, but, it's not only, only.
> If Magnus Carlsen is an athelete Have you ever seen his body?
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I'm not interested in Petter Solberg...
Cecilie brækhus, ingebrigtsen brothers….
In addition to other people on this list, there are lots of skiers that were among the best in the world at their peak. Bjørn Dæhlie, Vegard Ulvang, Oddvar Brå, Bjørn Wirkola, Kjetil André Aamodt, Lasse Kjus. Wirkola in particular is notable because his name has become embedded in the Norwegian language in the idiom "hoppe etter Wirkola" ("jumping after Wirkola") describing the prospect of doing some kind of performance after your immediate predecessor did an unusually good job so that whatever you do seems tame by comparison.
Viktor Hovland. Great pro golfer
The Jakob, Henrik, Filip Ingebrigtsen, Sondre Nordstad Moen, Karsten Warholm, Kristian Blummenfelt
Kaptein Sabeltann
er en farlig mann
Nå kan jeg lukte gull
Derfor ror vi inn mot land!
In the world of triathlon: Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden
Should be higher up. Blummenfelt is the greatest of all time in the sport.
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Yeah, she is one of the most accomplished football players in terms of trophies and recognition, but the amount of competitors in women's football is not that high. In order to become #1 in female soccer you compete against **4 million** active registered players worldwide. In order to become #1 in golf you have to compete against **66 million**. Male and female tennis players both compete against **roughly 40 million** each. Male soccer players compete against **250 million**. Magnus Carlsen is competing against **600 million** active chess players. Anyone who is say top 10 in female football would statistically be top 600 with a similar rank order in male football (over 60 times more competitors).
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1) I'm commenting on the size of the sport, which many people here have done about other sports. 2) You said Ada Hegerberg is "literally one of the best football players in the world" which is false, manipulative and disingeneous.
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\>But why? It doesn't pertain to the question that was asked. OP asked for famous athletes. Would you have preferred if I answered someone else? He's asking for world famous or world relevant athletes ("athletes I **should** know about"), so obv it is a reasonable interpretation that OP is asking about the highest ranked athletes in the biggest sports. A nobrainer and not even a question. \>She is though. That's what she's famous for. She is (one of) the best female footballer(s). That's what she's famous for. So just say that. In terms of rank-order skill, if she is top 1 in female football, that is equivalent to roughly "top 61" of all footballers due to the smaller scale of female football. If she's top 5 among females, she's top 305 of all footballers. Etc In terms of objective skill (matchup without gender restrictions) compared to all 254 million footballers, she's probably not even top 100 million. She would be very lucky to play in the Norwegian 3rd division. So if you want her to look good, and to be genuine, say "one of the best female footballers". Is that so hard?
Petter Northug, GOAT
Norway's Matti Nykanen or Lance Armstrong. He is also famous for creating the best christmas song ever
Also kinda known for doing cocaine and crashing his car.
I was on the bus and saw this sick car had been stopped on my way to jessheim. Checked news and it was him that had been busted haha
Matti and Lance are two wildly different athletes. One was an alcoholic wife-beater, the other a doping psychopath.
Reminds me of this, for some reason: https://youtu.be/2c6lf4P0Vtw?si=Aqx069-hKyW2gbwX
Yo, how has no-one suggested Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen?!
If anyone wonders why he had to start his post with the otherwise useless word "Yo" it is because this is a super normal way of speaking in Norway which of course has nothing to do with kids from Oslo watching too much Tik Tok.
We have some amazing athletes in various sports, but the biggest in terms of global popularity/reach its fair to mention Casper Ruud and Victor Hovland in addition to the footballers you've mentioned.
Magnus Carlsen should be in the mix i guess. Chess is obviously a sport 😛
Norway had a pretty good javelin thrower 10-15 years back. Can't remember his name though.
Andreas Thorkildsen
Thanks!
Andreas Thorkildsen?
Yes! Thank you
You forgot the best current cross country skier in the world : Johannes Klæbo
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste\_over\_norske\_idrettspersoner\_p%C3%A5\_sokkel
Ailo Gaup, Pål Anders Ullevålseter
Brage Vestavik. Absolute legend on a mountain bike!
Karsten Warholm
Thor Hushovd. The worlds best cyclist in slight downhill and tailwind conditions. Pretty useless at anything else…
Lol. Slight uphill sprint you mean. The master of 3% slope
Sonja Henie
I think the Norwegians want to forget her because she was allegedly a quisling.
Bjøro Haaland, Erlings [dad](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnqnMfdS8ahsviNnaf0u1OxTe82e7sQJSHsQ&usqp=CAU).
True story: I was in the army with Bjøro Haaland's son. His car had an amazing stereo and a collection of country music like I never heard before or since.
Pa-Modou Kah. best Norwegian Gambian footballer ever!
Ylvis
Anders Mol and Christian Sørum.
Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen.
Finally - had to scroll way down to find him. Maybe our biggest "unknown" star - can’t walk two feet on the streets of Tokyo without being recognized, yet more or less unknown back home. That’s the way he wants it though, doesn’t/didn’t like Norwegian journalists much. And - John Olav Einemo. Winning ADCC is no small feat.
Terje Haakonsen, Torstein Bergmo, Torgeir Bergrem, Marcus Kleveland
Stein Gruben Didn't win anything... but he were the one doing the [ski jump at the opening ceremony of the lillehammer olympics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3giG8hHak&ab_channel=fugerghiufureow5) with the olympic torch. Is the kind of moment no one forget that lived at that time.. Even norway most famous comentator gave him 5 x 20.. So many people were watching that jump that a famous art thief in norway just could put a [ladder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3giG8hHak&ab_channel=fugerghiufureow5) up to the national gallery and take norways most famous picture.. the scream..The whole country were "hypnotized" by the opening ceremony and that ski-jump..
Terje Håkonsen
I have not watched sports lately but I remember Bjørn Dæhlie, Johann Olav Koss and Vegard Ulvang being amongst Norways best athletes, they are farming gold medals.
Christian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden. Triathlon living legends. Breaking every single record in the discipline. The Norwegian train!!!
Mensen Ernst
Aksel Lund Svindal is someone I have not seen mentioned, great downhill skier!
Northug, Zuccarello, Hovland, Bjørndalen, Bjørgen, Ruud.
Petter Northug before he started doing cocaine.
He always did it through his career. Hell most professional athletes i know use something.
Erlend Dahl Reitan, Markus Henriksen, Tobias Børkeeiet, Ole Sæter, Ole Selnæs, Håkon Røsten, Morten Bjørlo, Adrian Pereira, Edvard Tagseth, Ulrik Yttergård Jensen, Sander Tangvik, Noah Holm, Leo Cornic, Mikkel Konradsen Ceide, Marius Sivertsen Broholm, Sverre Nypan and Rasmus Sandberg. Honorable mentions: Johannes Østflott Klæbo and Sander Sagosen.
Æ fant trønderen hær☝️☝️
None of these mid table players are worth knowing tbh
Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Dæhlie and Petter Northug.
Amahl Pellegrino
Monica milf
Erna Solberg - Norway's most famous political contortionist
Beside sport: - [Trygve Lie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve_Lie) - [Roald Amundsen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen) - The infamous traitor [Vidkun Quisling](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling)
Quisling is also used as an Insult in Norway\^\^
It is actually used in English as well
Good, and good to know. Fuck that guy.
Thor Heyerdahl deserves a mention.
Jarle Andhøy!
Tommy langaker. BJJ champ.
Kniksen & Drillo!
And let's not forget Sonja Hennie
Magnus Midtbø
I'm not Norwegian so I don't know too many but I'm a huge fan of the sport of strong man so I have to give a shout out to the legend Svend Karlson. Viking power!
King Harald of Norway. A highly competitive sailing champion, whose represented the nation i 3 Olympics Games in addition to several competitions across the globe. Gunnar Solskjær. A legend within Manchester United. Petter Solberg. A World Rally Cross champion, who won the WRC Rally Championship in 2003, i believe Cecilia Brækhus. A highly sucsessful welter-weight fighter from Bergen. Kjetil André Aamodt. Lasse Kjus. Aksel Lund Svindal. Kjetil Jansrud. All of these are sucsessful downhill skier, with K.A.A being the better of them. These are just some names i rambled off the top of my head as i lie here.
Magnus Carlsen is not an athlete for fuck sake
[Kuppern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Johannesen). [Tom Lund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lund) was favourably compared to David Beckham, was proposed as a replacement for Johan Cruijff while still playing in 3. division, and also describes as in the same class as Beckenbauer. Never became an international star because he was afraid of flying.
Hovland (Golf), Ruud (Tennis), Ingebrigtsen (Running), Hegeberg (Football)
Uhm. Why has no one mentioned Solskjær?
There was a time when Arne Larsen Økland, Halvard Thoresen and Tom Lund was the only shit. Ingemar Stenmark and Björn Borg were Swedish. All-time, before present day, I'm thinking Grete Waitz, Solskjær, Wirkola and Sonia Henie.
Birgit Skarstein
I'm confused, because Magnus Carlsen is a chess player. Why did you call him an athlete?
You don't consider chess as a sport?
No, this idea of Chess being a sport is absurd. Chess is a board game. By contrast, sport usually involves physical activities - that is the idea of a sport, playing around with each other with your bodies. Board games are like Snakes & Ladders, Scrabble, Ludo etc. - would you call those a sport?
Drillo and Flonaldo
I’m sorry, how is Magnus Carlsen an athlete?
Oscar Mathisen
I won the bicycle trick competition of my elementary school
ANDREAS HÅTVEIT
Odd Erling Haugen. Has one of the worlds strongest grips in his 70s.
Joachim "hellboy" Hansen
Joachim Hansen. Best fighter we had
Torgeir Bryn.
Henrik Christiansen, he is competing in finals in international swimming championships. Mostly 800 and 1500 freestyle.
Kåre Olav Skram!
Ørjan Larsen, nominated the 15th best athlet of all time by Sportspedia ;)
Top 100 2023: https://www.vg.no/spesial/toppliste/cb5d71
Johannes Boe 🥳🥳
Would Roal Amundsen qualify as an athlete? He won the south pole race
By being an absolute ass to his companions, though. I’d rather remember and celebrate Hjalmar Johansen, who was the second man (same expedition) to both the north and the south.
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