Great participation in the Holmenkollstafett

This text has been translated from Norwegian with the assistance of GPT UiO.

The team "Perfectly Competitive" from ØI almost outran their name, retaining their first-place position from 2024 and 2023. For three consecutive years, they have been the fastest team in the SV Faculty. This year, they improved their lap time from last year by a solid 7 minutes, finishing with an impressive time of 1:10:54, although this is 12 seconds slower than their peak time 1:10:42 in 2023, when they were the second best team at UiO.

– The Holmenkollstafett 2025 was a fantastic experience! Great atmosphere within the team and everyone performed well. I think we improved in nearly every leg compared to last year. Additionally, there was good attendance at the two joint training sessions with 10 participants at each session, as well as the trial run. In the evening, we hosted a dinner with all participants and reserves, says team manager Martin Blomhoff Holm, adding

– This is a very fun and enjoyable event which we plan to continue in the future. The goal is to get even closer to the very best UiO teams and BI's first team.

Silver

The silver position was claimed by a closely knitted team from LCBC and PROMENTA at PSI. They sprinted in with a commendable 1:18:05, just over 7 minutes behind ØI and nearly four minutes faster than their time last year for LCBC.

Team leader Kristine Walhovd is delighted and pleased to have teamed up with colleagues in PROMENTA.

– We had complementary strengths as runners and the collaboration was well worth it. We complemented each other very well, both in running and at the banquet, and it's lovely to make new friends, she states.

Following the running, they held a joint banquet at PSI with the administrative staff, who organised their own team this year, as they did last year.

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Bronze

Right behind LCBC/PROMENTA, the Centre for Precision Psychiatry (formerly NORMENT) raced to an almost equally strong 1:18:21, just 16 seconds after LCBC/PROMENTA and around three minutes faster than last year, for NORMENT. Half of the team (8 runners) are from PSI.

– We're very pleased with our performance and even managed to beat last year's time despite some minor hiccups with the exchanges. It seemed everyone had a great time and the mood was upbeat during the celebration in the evening, says team leader Erik Rimestad Frogner at PSI.

The finishing time required to receive a medal for corporate teams in the Holmenkollstafett is one hour and twenty minutes, which all three podium teams achieved.

Below the podium

ISS claimed the frustrating fourth place this year. However, they climbed four positions and improved their lap time by just over six minutes, crossing the finish line at 1:23:18.

Despite ISV finishing 3 minutes slower this year, specifically 1:25:22, they climbed to fifth place on the unofficial SV final standings.

RITMO was unable to match last year's pace and fell three places with a final time of 1:26:02.

TIK retained seventh place, even though they ran three and a half minutes slower than last year's achievement, clocking in at 1:27:26.

In the penultimate and last places were the administrative teams of the faculty (1:33:05) and PSI (1:34:00).

More:

• Results from SV's Holmenkollstafett-teams this year (2024)