okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Some U.S. O' history
A letter showed up in my mailbox yesterday. The return address read "Peter Gagarin." I opened it wondering what in the world Peter would be sending me in a letter.
Turns out the U.S. Team is sending former WOC team members to ask for donations to help support the team. It seems like a good idea.
The letter included a list of everyone who ran at a WOC for the U.S. (going back through the 1974 World Champs in Denmark).
I know most of the people on the list. For the people I don't know, I've heard of them. Except for one -- who is Tom Keene? I don't ever remember hearing his name. He ran at the WOC in 1974.
Since I like to count things, I counted the number of individuals who'd run in WOCs 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, and so on.
WOC teams Number of people
1 28
2 15
3 7
4 5
5 2
6 2
7 1
8 0
9 1
10 1
The people who've gone to more than 6 WOCs are who you'd expect (Mikell Platt - 7, Peggy Dickison - 9, and Sharon Crawford - 10).
I also looked at the number of people who were at their first World Champs each year. In 1974, all five U.S. orienteers at the World Champs were at their first World Champs. I think this list is interesting.
