Marianne Riddervold (born 5 March 1980) is 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 Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

. She received a

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in the ''

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'' event at the

2005 World Orienteering Championships The 2005 World Orienteering Championships, the 22nd World Orienteering Championships, were held in Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 () and a geographic ar ...

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,"Profile: Marianne Riddervold"
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on 14 June 2008) together with

Marianne Andersen Marianne Andersen (born 26 March 1980 in Drammen) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. She has won twelve individual medals in the world and European championships, as well as winning nine national championships. In 2017 she won a silver med ...

and

Anne Margrethe Hausken Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg (born 23 January 1976) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, World champion and European champion. She took the overall victory in the 2008 World Cup. World championships Hausken finished second in ''sprint'' ...

.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 14 June 2008) She finished fourth with the Norwegian team in the ''

event'' at the 2006

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, and again 4th in

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in 2008.

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* 1980 births Living people Norwegian female orienteers Norwegian foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Norway-orienteering-bio-stub