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What is orienteering?
This is the name of a running sport.

The orienteering championship is sponsored by the Aviation Radio Model Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration and orienteering association of china, and is the highest level orienteering competition in China. Among them, running is the main event, and the most important link is orienteering, but this event was not very popular at first, and it became popular in modern times.

Orienteering originated in Sweden, and was originally just a military sports activity. 1886 is the first time to use the word "determining the topic", which means: crossing the unknown area with the help of maps and compasses. The real quiz competition was held in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway in 1895, which marked the birth of orienteering as a sports event.

Introduction to orienteering

Orienteering has a history of one hundred years. Orienteering itself, as a kind of sports, began in northern Europe at the beginning of this century. By 1930s, it had established itself in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 1932 held the first world orienteering competition, and196/kloc-0 established the international orienteering Federation (IOF) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

FIBA is the administrative entity of world orienteering and one of the federations of international individual sports federations. Orienteering is also an internationally recognized Olympic sport. 199 1 year, short distance became the official event of the world championship held in Finland. 200 1 Finland added sprint-O.