Håvard Tveite

Håvard Tveite was a Norwegian orienteering competitor, born on 5 March 1962 and died on 30 May 2021. He won the relay at the World Orienteering Championships in 1987 and 1989, took a silver medal in 1991 and a bronze in 1997, and also won an individual bronze at the 1989 championships. He won the overall Orienteering World Cup in 1990 and finished third overall in 1988. He ran for the clubs Ås IL and NTHI, and won the Jukola relay with NTHI in 1989 and 1990. Away from the forest he served the International Orienteering Federation as a member of its Map Commission from 2002 and as its chairman from 2007 to 2017, a period in which the international specifications for orienteering maps were revised several times as digital mapping and printing became normal. He was awarded an IOF Silver Pin in 2017, and he also contributed documentation and plugins to the QGIS project.