Anne Sophie Hunstad

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Anne Sophie Hunstad (born 20 September 1954) is a Norwegian sports official and politician for the Labour Party

She holds the cand.mag. degree, and worked in secondary schools, chiefly as a teacher, from 1982 to 2000. [1] She was active in athletics in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s she represented the club Lillehammer IF. She won a bronze medal in javelin throw at the Norwegian Championships in 1972. [2] Later representing the club IL i BUL, she set a personal best in the shot put in July 1977 in Moelv, with 12.54 metres. [3] She later represented the club Heimdal IF. She achieved 32.40 metres in the discus throw in June 1978 in Stjørdal, [4] and 47.72 in the javelin throw (old type) in July 1983 in Trondheim. [5]

She is currently the chair of Sør-Trøndelag Athletics District Organization (since 2009, previously also 2003 to 2007). She chaired the sports clubs Nidelv IL from 1999 to 2004 and SK Trondheims-Ørn from 2006 to 2009, and was a board member of Trondhjems SK since 2006 and the Norwegian Athletics Association from 2007 to 2011. [1] In 2011, she was suggested by the election committee for a spot on the board of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. [6] At the Confederation's national convention, however, the politicking went against the wishes of the Norwegian Athletics Association and others, and Hunstad withdrew her candidacy. [7]

In politics, she was a member of Trondheim city council from 1991 to 2003 and Sør-Trøndelag county council from 2007 to 2011. She was a municipal commissioner from 1999 to 2003, and in 2003 she was hired as a political adviser for the city's mayor Rita Ottervik. [1] [8]

She has chaired Røros Museum since 2007, chaired the Norwegian State Housing Bank in Central Norway from 2006 to 2009 (board member since 1997) and was a board member of Trondheim og Omegn Boligbyggelag from 2004 to 2006. [1]

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  3. ↑ "Kule/Shot put". Norwegian Athletics. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Diskos/Discus Throw". Norwegian Athletics. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
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  6. ↑ Andersen, Martin K. (9 April 2011). "Ruster seg til kamp". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 9.
  7. ↑ Bugge, Mette (9 May 2011). "Disse får fire tøffe år". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). pp. 34–35.
  8. ↑ Reise, Nils (11 April 2011). "E-Mobil-Paradies Norwegen: Revolution am Trondheimfjord". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 15 May 2011.
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