Idrettslaget Heming is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sports club from Slemdal

Slemdal

Slemdal is a neighborhood in the borough of Vestre Aker in Oslo, Norway.The neighborhood lies south of Vettakollen, and was built up from the 1890s. It is served by the Oslo Metro station Slemdal. The local sports team is IL Heming.-References:...

, Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. It has sections for association football, Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

, alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

, orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 and tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

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General history

It was founded on 25 May 1916, and named after a mythological character based in the Viking era. It has the sports field Hemingbanen and the indoor arenas Heminghallen and Nye Heminghallen near Gråkammen station

Gråkammen (station)

Gråkammen is a station on the Holmenkollen Line of the Oslo Metro. It is between Gulleråsen and Slemdal. The station was opened on 31 May 1898 as part of the tramway to Besserud....

. Famous members include Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Marius Eriksen

Marius Eriksen, Jr.

Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor.Marius Eriksen was born on 8 September 1922 in Kristiania in Norway. His father, also called Marius Eriksen was a gymnast who competed for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics. His mother was Birgit Eriksen...

, Astrid Sandvik

Astrid Sandvik

Astrid Sandvik is a Norwegian Alpine skier who finished tied for sixth dog in the women's slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In 1963, Sandvik almost earned the Holmenkollen medal...

, Thorleif Schjelderup

Thorleif Schjelderup

Thorleif Schjelderup was a Norwegian author and in the 1940s and 1950s one of Norway's best ski jumpers.He was born in Aker as a son of Ferdinand Schjelderup and his wife Marie Leigh Vogt....

, Harald Maartmann

Harald Maartmann

Harald Rolf Maartmann was a Norwegian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s.He won both the 17 km and the 50 km event in the Norwegian Championships in 1950. He finished fifth in the 50 km event at the 1950 World Championships in Lake Placid, New York.Maartmann also finished eighth in the...

 and Astrid Sunde.

The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It last played in the Third Division in 2008

2008 Norwegian Third Division

The 2008 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.Between 18 and 26 games were played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

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Orienteering

IL Heming was among the pioneering clubs in orienteering in the 1930s. Among the top orienteers were Otto Erichsen, Finn Jespersen and Per Bergsland

Per Bergsland

Sgt Per Bergsland was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape".-Sports career:...

. In 1939 Per Bergsland

Per Bergsland

Sgt Per Bergsland was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape".-Sports career:...

 placed second at the individual Norwegian championship in orienteering held at Modum

Modum

Modum is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vikersund. The municipality of Modum was established on 1 January 1838 .The area has a long tradition of skiing with several famous...

. During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Bergsland was a pilot in the RAF 332 Squadron

No. 332 Squadron RAF

-Notable pilots:*Sgt Per Bergsland *Sgt Carl Sejersted Bødtker *Sgt Jan Staubo*Cpt Finn Thorsager*Lt Soren Kjell Liby*Lt Marius Eriksen*Gunnar Piltingsrud*Fnr Ola Gert Aanjesen*Maj Reidar Emil From-Bibliography:...

. He was shot down at Dieppe Raid

Dieppe Raid

The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter or later on Operation Jubilee, during the Second World War, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe on the northern coast of France on 19 August 1942. The assault began at 5:00 AM and by 10:50 AM the Allied...

, and held at the POW camp Stalag Luft III

Stalag Luft III

Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen. It was in the German Province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan , southeast of Berlin...

 and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape" in 1944. At the Scandinavian cup between Sweden and Norway held 10 sept 1939 two of Heming's orienteers excelled at the individual competition. Otto Erichsen won the individual contest, while Finn Jespersen

Finn Varde Jespersen

Finn Varde Jespersen was among Norway's leading orienteers in the late 1930s. During World War II he was a pilot with the rank of Lieutenant; he perished during the invasion of Normandy.-Orienteering career:...

 placed third. While a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron

No. 97 Squadron RAF

No. 97 Squadron, was a Royal Air Force squadron formed on December 1, 1917 at Waddington, Lincolnshire, first as a training unit, until moving to Netheravon in March 1918, and re-equipping with the Handley Page O/400 heavy bomber. The squadron served in France for the remainder of the war...

 during World War II, Jespersen's Lancaster

Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force . It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other...

 was shot down over Cherbourg

Battle of Cherbourg

The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on June 6, 1944...

 the night between 5 and 6 June

Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...

 1944.

In 1950 IL Heming won the Norwegian orienteering championship in relay, in Hølonda

Hølonda

Hølonda is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Hølonda encompasses the southwestern part of the present-day municipality of Melhus, west of the Gaula River. The main church for the area is Hølonda Church.-History:...

, before Asker SK, the club team consisting of Ingar Jacobsen, Kr. A. Arnesen and Hans Petter Dahm. In 1951 Heming placed second in the relay championship. The club hosted the Norwegian championship in relay in 1956.