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Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here.
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Bislett and is
The largest relay event in the world is the Norwegian Holmenkollstafetten, 2, 255 teams of 15 starting and ending at Bislett Stadium in Oslo which had a total of 33, 880 competitors on May 14, 2011.
The Dream Mile was and is an annual mile race run at the Bislett Stadium, Oslo as part of the Bislett Games, one of the meetings of the IAAF Diamond League athletics competition.
The main campus is the previous Frydenlund Brewery near Bislett stadium.
Harry Hole's home address is Sofies Gate in Bislett, Oslo.
Its current home field is Bislett.
The Bislett Games is an annual track and field event at the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway.
It is sponsored by ExxonMobil and officially known as the ExxonMobil Bislett Games.
The Bislett stadion was used for speed skating events at the Olympics, but nowadays it is better known for its Bislett Games athletics meeting.
Bislett Stadion is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway.
After a spell at Ullevaal Stadium the club moved back to Bislett, if only for a short time, and it is unlikely that they will ever return.
Bislett and Norway's
Bislett became Norway's main arena for speed skating and track and field in 1940 when the architect Frode Rinnan's new functionalistic stadium was completed, with a capacity of 20, 000.
Bislett and known
Although the two top teams in Oslo have declined to use Bislett as their home ground they have still shown some interest in playing there during the winter, in the Scandinavian club tournament known as Royal League.
Bislett and sports
In 1999, the American sports magazine Sports Illustrated declared that the old Bislett Stadium was one of the top 20 sports venues of the 20th century.
Bislett Stadium lies on the site of a 19th century brick works, which was bought by the Municipality of Kristiania ( Oslo ) in 1898, and turned into a sports field in 1908.
Football has been played at Bislett since the early days of the sports field, and the first international game was played here in 1913, between Norway and Sweden.
Bislett and with
* David Moorcroft, set the world record for 5000 m on July 7, 1982, in Oslo, at the Bislett Games with a time of 13: 00. 41
Poor conditions and maintenance of Bislett forced Vålerenga to move to Ullevaal and a groundshare with FK Lyn.
The 2010 season saw Lyn at Bislett Stadion ( sharing with Skeid ) in the second level of Norwegian football.
This annual event was interrupted in 2004 for the rebuilding of the Bislett Stadion, replacing a six-lane track with sharp bends and steep terraces with a conventional eight-lane track and seating.
On June 4, 2010, Lagat broke the American Record for 5000m with 12: 54. 12 at the Bislett Games in Oslo.
Indeed, an athletics track covered with ice can function as a speed skating track, such as Bislett stadion in Oslo up to the 1980s.
Former javelin winners Andreas Thorkildsen and Tero Pitkämäki continued their five-year shared dominance of the Bislett Games, with Pitkämäki taking the victory this time.
The new stadium designed by Danish architecture practice C. F. Møller Architects was inaugurated with the Bislett Games on July 29, 2005.
The running track now has eight lanes with a 37, 5 m turning radius ( the previous stadium only had six lanes, forcing the Bislett Games organizers to install temporary lanes on the long stretch for the 100 m event ).
Bislett has also hosted ten European Championships, with the last one being held in 1986.
Lyn was the last team to reject a deal with the municipality over Bislett, in 2005, and instead they continued to play at Ullevaal, their home ground for the past 80 years.
Bislett and 15
On 3 June 2006 she ran the 5000 metres in New York City in a then-world record time of 14: 24. 53 – she subsequently improved the record to 14: 16. 63 at the Bislett Games in Oslo on 15 June 2007.
Bislett and speed
The previous stadium was Bislett Stadion, which hosted speed skating and track and field events in addition to football, and hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Compulsory figures were skated at the outdoor Jordal Amfi rink, while the free skating portions of the competition were held at the huge Bislett Stadion, on a regulation-sized ice surface set inside the speed skating track.
Especially the matter of whether or not Bislett would continue to host speed skating events provided tensions between the various parties involved, leaving nostalgics bitterly disappointed when it turned out not to be so.
The World Speed Skating Championships were held at Bislett for the first time in 1925, but it was not until 1940 that Bislett became the main venue for speed skating in Oslo.
Norwegian speed skaters Hjalmar Andersen, Knut Johannesen, Fred Anton Maier and Kay Stenshjemmet have all become European Champions at Bislett.
The largest speed skating event at Bislett was that of the 1952 Olympics.
The European Championships in 1986 proved to be the last major speed skating event at Bislett, as ice production was halted two years later.
Bislett and world
At the 2008 Bislett Games, Defar's 5000 m world record was broken by Tirunesh Dibaba.
Bislett Games attract the best track and field athletes from all over the world, and 65 world records have been set on its forgiving, brick-coloured track so far.
Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the Games and former athletics meetings at Bislett stadium.
She also set two track world records in the 5, 000m ( 14: 58. 9 ) and the 10, 000m ( 30: 59. 14 ) at the Bislett Games in Oslo.
Despite its low-lying altitude, Bislett was on many occasions able to provide ice of a high quality, resulting in ten single distance world records and five overall world records.
Bislett and records
Bislett has seen an additional two 10000 m records, and both times the record was snatched back from Medeo.
Bislett and more
Although they stated that they had a better economic proposal from Ullevaal, the team stayed at Bislett to have more influence on the design of the new stadium that would replace the existing structure.
The stadium was quickly becoming run down and even dangerous, but it would take more than decade of debate and at times harsh bickering before the city council decided that Bislett was to be demolished and rebuilt.
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