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orienteering
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champion. In
2003
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he won the gold medal in the sprint distance at the
World Orienteering Championships
The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...
. He was the first and, to-date, the only British male orienteering world champion (
Yvette Baker
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Already at the early age of 15, she won the Elit ...
won the short distance race at the 1999 world championships).
Stevenson won a second individual world championship medal in Denmark in
2006
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, with a third place in the middle distance category.
He also holds two world relay medals running the anchor leg for Great Britain: Bronze in 2003 and Gold in
2008
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Background
Stevenson was born on 25 March 1975 in Scotland.British team: Jamie Stevenson – ''British Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 11 July 2008) He was educated at Daniel Stewart's and Melville College in Edinburgh. He studied at the
University of Sheffield
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.
Orienteering
He has also raced for
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(
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) and Danish clubs. While living in Sweden he won the Swedish long distance championships. He now lives in Denmark. At international level he was a member of the British relay team which won the prestigious Nordic Championships in 2001, the relay bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships in
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and the relay gold medal at the 2008 World Championships. In 2006 he won the Danish 4 km Short Course Cross Country Championships held in
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.
In August 2002 Stevenson briefly topped the world orienteering rankings.
He appeared on the TV sports quiz They Think It's All Over in 2003 after winning the gold medal in the sprint distance at the World Orienteering Championships.
He also holds two world relay medals running the anchor leg for Great Britain in 2003 to take Bronze (with Dan Marsden and Jon Duncan) and Gold in 2008 with Graham Gristwood and
Jon Duncan
Jon Duncan (born 6 October 1975) – World of O Runners (Retrieved 11 August 2008) is a
. Jamie Stevenson has won the
British Orienteering Championships
The British Orienteering Championships are the highest level of competition in Orienteering in the United Kingdom, along with the Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering, JK Orienteering Festival.
1967 saw the first British Champion ...
in all disciplines except for Night Orienteering.
See also
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List of orienteers
This is a list of all orienteering competitors found in Wikipedia and notable within the orienteering sport.
A
* Alida Abola, Soviet Union
* Christian Aebersold, Switzerland
* Gunborg Ahling, Sweden
* Katarina Allberg, Sweden
* Johanna ...
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List of orienteering events
This is a list of all orienteers events found in Wikipedia and which are notable within the orienteering sport.
Foot Orienteering Championships World Championships
* World Orienteering Championships
* Junior World Orienteering Championships
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