Jon Tvedt dies.

"Jon Tvedt, Norwegian mountain runner died on January 11th 2009 during a training run.

The run went up to a mountain called Gullfjellet, just outside Bergen, together with his brother Ø,yvind and his training partner Jan Fjæ,restad. It is normally a three hour run and one Jon did most Sundays. It was extremely bad weather with lot of wind and an mixture of rain and snow. After passing the top at about 1000 m, on the way down again, Jon got very tired and startet to totter.

Photo: Danny Hughes" "

Both his brother and Jan had to support him, but this slowed them up considerably ,and Jon got extremly cold and wet (the wind made it feel like ,minus 6 C). ,This temperature made it dangerous and it startet , to get dark. His brother Ø,yvind therefore ran to try to find a mobile connection , and get help, while Jan stayed with Jon and tried to keep him warm.After a , while Jon passed away, and Jan tried hard for about 30 - 45 minutes to bring , him back to life with heart compression, unfortunately with bad result. There and , then Jon lost his life about 500 m above his hometown Bergen. Extremly sad..... , Jon Tvedt leaves to daugthers and one multihandicapped son after him (his , wife and their mother died for about ten years , ago). Photo: Christian Prestegard Jon represented his country in mountain races on many occasions with the following results
2005	21st World Mountain Running Trophy	Wellington/NZL	Men individual	,	DNF
2005	4th European Mountain Running Championships	Grossglockner-Heiligenblut/AUT	Men individual	20	1:16:02
2006	22nd World Mountain Running Trophy	Bursa/TUR	Men individual	30	1:01:45
2007	6th European Mountain Running Championships	Cauterets/FRA	Men individual	28	1:14:32
2008	24. World Mountain running Trophy	Sierre - Crans Montana /SUI	Men individual	35	59:13:00
2008	5th World Long Distance MR Challenge	3 Peaks Race/GBR	Men individual	18	03:08:53

Jon won the Norwegian mountain running championship on four occasions 2005-2008
Jon was also the Norwegian orienteering champion on ten occasions , "