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Did you know ...

• the orienteering map (example pictured), along with the compass, is the primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
• the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga and Bromma kyrka (pictured) as control points?
• the volcanic ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park (pictured), an important orienteering venue in New Hampshire, resembles a meteor impact crater?
• while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund, Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships?
• having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering?
• among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland, one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
• Jon Tvedt took up competitive mountain running in his late thirties, his career in orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
• Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
• Czech Republic orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
• Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering, in 1966?