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Mari Fasting (born 1 March 1985) [1] is a Norwegian orienteering competitor [2] and ski mountaineer. She is two times Junior World Orienteering Champion. She represents the club NTNUI of Trondheim, and is related to the ski mountaineer Ola Berger. [3]
Mari Fasting competed at the 2005 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Tenero, where she received a gold medal in the long distance and a gold medal in the relay event. [4]
Fasting participated at the 2006 World Orienteering Championships in Aarhus, where she finished 6th in the middle distance. She was injured for a large part of the 2007 season, and missed the world championship. At the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils she finished 4th in the relay event with the Norwegian national team.
She competed at the 2013 World Orienteering Championships, and won a gold medal in the relay with the Norwegian team, together with Heidi Bagstevold and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg. [5] [6]
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