Håvard Tveite (5 March 1962 – 30 May 2021) was a Norwegian

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

competitor. He was Relay World Champion from 1987 and 1989,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on December 22, 2007) and has a silver medal from 1991 and a bronze medal from 1997. He also obtained bronze in the individual course at the 1989 World Orienteering Championships. He was winner of the overall

Orienteering World Cup The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The official World Cup was held first in 1986, and then every ...

in 1990, and placed third in the overall cup in 1988. He represented the sports clubs

Ås IL Ås is the Scandinavia, Scandinavian language word for an esker, a ridge of sand and gravel. Ås may also refer to: People *Ås (surname) *Berit Ås (born 1928), a Norwegian politician and Professor Emerita of social psychology at the Universit ...

and NTHI. He won the 1989 and 1990

Jukola relay The Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949. Jukola is the biggest orienteering relay event in the world. The race takes place on a Saturday between 13 and 19 June in sites around Finland. The northern ...

, with NTHI. Tveite was a member of the

International Orienteering Federation The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) is the international governing body of the sport of orienteering. The IOF head office is located in Karlstad Municipality, Karlstad, Sweden. The IOF governs four orienteering disciplines: foot orie ...

Map Commission. He joined the IOF Map Commission in 2002 and became Chairman of the commission in 2007. He remained as Chairman until 2017. During his term the IOF International Specifications for Orienteering Maps went through multiple important revisions as the digitalisation of mapping and map printing processes became the norm. He was awarded an IOF Silver Pin for his service to the IOF in 2017. Tveite was also a regular contributor to the

QGIS QGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) software that is free and open-source. QGIS supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. It supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data in a range of data formats. Its name comes from ...

project, contributing to documentation and developing various plugins.

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* 1962 births 2021 deaths People from Ås, Akershus Sportspeople from Akershus Norwegian male orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub