Idrettslaget Heming is a

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sports club from

Slemdal Slemdal is a neighborhood in the borough of Vestre Aker in Oslo, Norway. The neighborhood lies south of Vettakollen, and was built up from the 1890s. It is served by the Oslo Metro station Slemdal. The local sports team is IL Heming Idrettslag ...

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

. It has sections for

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

, Nordic skiing, alpine skiing, orienteering and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

, previously also for bandy.

General history

It was founded on 25 May 1916, and named after a mythological character based in the

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. It has the sports field Hemingbanen and the indoor arenas Heminghallen and Nye Heminghallen near Gråkammen station. Famous members include

Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (born 22 January 1987) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She skis with the IL Heming club in Oslo, near Holmenkollen. Her greatest achievement is winning the ...

, Marius Eriksen, Astrid Sandvik, Thorleif Schjelderup, Harald Maartmann and

Astrid Sunde Astrid is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, a modern form of the name Ástríðr. Derived from the Old Norse Ássfriðr, a compound name composed of the elements (a god) and (beautiful, fair). Variants * Assan (diminutive) (Swed ...

. The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It last played in the Third Division in

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Orienteering

IL Heming was among the pioneering clubs in orienteering in the 1930s. Among the top orienteers were Otto Erichsen, Finn Jespersen and

Per Bergsland Sgt Per Bergsland (17 January 1918 – 9 June 1992) was a Norwegian fighter pilot and POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the " Great Escape". Sports career During the 1930s Bergsland c ...

. In 1939

placed second at the individual Norwegian championship in orienteering held at Modum. During

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Bergsland was a pilot in the RAF 332 Squadron. He was shot down at Dieppe Raid, and held at the

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Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the " Great Escape" in 1944. At the Scandinavian cup between Sweden and Norway held 10 sept 1939 two of Heming's orienteers excelled at the individual competition. Otto Erichsen won the individual contest, while Finn Jespersen placed third. While a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during World War II, Jespersen's Lancaster was shot down over Cherbourg the night between 5 and 6 June 1944. In 1950 IL Heming won the Norwegian orienteering championship in relay, in Hølonda, before Asker SK, the club team consisting of Ingar Jacobsen, Kr. A. Arnesen and Hans Petter Dahm. In 1951 Heming placed second in the relay championship. The club hosted the Norwegian championship in relay in 1956.Berglia 1987: pp. 128-129, 150-151

References

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