Arne Haukvik

Arne Haukvik (12 February 1926 – 21 August 2002) was a Norwegian sports official for IL i BUL and politician for the Centre Party and the Pensioners Party. He is best known for founding the Bislett Games. As a politician he was a four-term member of Oslo city council and a one-term member of the Parliament of Norway.

He was born in Sauherad as a son of farmers Halvor Haukvik (1894–1969) and Gunhild Røste (1898–1977). He was a brother of politician Olav Haukvik. The village he grew up in was Hjuksebø. He attended folk high school before finishing his secondary education in 1948, and taking commerce school in 1950. He also served in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany. He worked as a bookseller from 1950 to 1952, then various jobs in the United States until 1955 before returning to bookselling. From 1961 to 1963 he was a sales manager in the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget, before becoming a sales consultant in Centralfilm from 1963 to 1966.

By that time he had involved himself in track and field administration. He was the deouty chairman of the Norwegian Amateur Athletics Association from 1952 to 1955, board member of Bondeungdomslaget (BUL) in Oslo from 1956 to 2000 (deputy chairman from 1959 to 1960, chairman from 1960 to 1963) and chairman of its sports section IL i BUL from 1964 to 1971. He was also a board member of the Bislett Alliance with responsibility for public relations from 1965 to 2000. He strongly contributed to founding the modern Bislett Games, which started with the booking of Ron Clarke to the meet in 1965, who set a world record in the 10,000 metres at Bislett stadion. Haukvik was also involved in arranging the Oslo Marathon, the road relay Holmenkollstafetten and the skiing event BUL-sprinten.

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