IL Stålkameratene
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| Full name | Idrettslaget Stålkameratene |
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| Founded | 1935 |
| Ground | Sagbakken, Mo i Rana |
| League | Third Division |
| 2012 | Third Division / 11, 6th |
Idrettslaget Stålkameratene is a Norwegian sports club from Mo i Rana, Nordland. It has sections for association football, ice hockey, martial arts, judo, archery, ice hockey, biathlon and Nordic skiing.
It was founded on 11 January 1935 as AIL på Mo, a club with membership in the Workers Confederation of Sports. After the Second World War the Workers Confederation of Sports was dissolved, and the club changed its name to IL Stålkameratene. The name Stålkameratene means "Steel Comrades". The city as a whole got a boost in the 1940s and 1950s when the Norsk Jernverk (Norwegian Iron Works) was established in Mo i Rana, and the club profited from that.
Its most famous member in its early days was Simon Slåttvik, Olympic gold medalist in the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics. The club's athletics section was also thriving, mainly at national level. Ole Bernt Skarstein became Norwegian champion six times (100 metres: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968; 200 metres: 1968, 1969) Thorbjørn A. Larsen won the marathon in 1977. Jan Albrigtsen managed one silver medal as his best result (high jump: 1979). Henry Hatling won two medals, a gold in the standing long jump (1986) and silver in the standing high jump (1978); also Eskil Sommernes won the standing long jump in 1988. Unn Andersen managed a silver medal in the discus throw (1971) and a bronze in the shot put (1971). The club is not active in athletics anymore, having started a cooperation with local rivals Mo IL under the club name Rana FIK in 1989.
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