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IOF Rules
1. Definitions
1.1. Orienteering is a sport in which the competitors navigate independently through the terrain. Competitors must visit a number of control points marked on the ground in the shortest possible time aided only by map and compass. The course, defined by the location of the controls, is not revealed to competitors until they start.
1.2. In individual interval start races the competitors navigate and run through tthe terrain independently.
== 1.3 In mass start and chasing start races, competitors may often be running in close proximity to each other, but the formats still demand independent navigation. == 1.4 The term competitor means an individual of either sex or a team, as appropriate. == 1.5 Types of orienteering competition may be distinguished by:
2. General provisions
2.1. These rules, together with the Appendices, are binding at the World Games, the World Orienteering Championships, the World Cup in Orienteering, the Junior World Orienteering Championships, the World Masters Orienteering Championships for W21 and M21 elite classes at Regional Orienteering Championships, Regional Junior Orienteering Championships, Regional Youth Orienteering Championships and for W21 and M21 elite classes at IOF World Ranking Events. Every rules point with no event abbreviation before its number is valid for all these events. A rules point valid only for one or more of these events is marked with the specific abbreviation(s) in the margin beside the rules point number. Such specific rules take precedence over any general rules with which they conflict.
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