{"id":14256,"date":"2021-08-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaitseliit.ee\/nearly-30-teams-enter-admiral-pitka-challenge\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:00:00","slug":"nearly-30-teams-enter-admiral-pitka-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaitseliit.ee\/en\/nearly-30-teams-enter-admiral-pitka-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 30 teams enter Admiral Pitka challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-weight:bolder;padding-bottom:5px\">Participants in an annual military navigation race, scheduled for August 4-7, currently number 27, four-member teams, from nine countries. The race is returning to the calendar after a year&#39;s absence resulting from the pandemic.<\/div>\n<p>This year&#39;s Admiral Pitka Recon challenge will kick off at the Monument to the War of Independence in Kuressaare, on Saaremaa, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 4, to finish on the morning of Saturday, August 7.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the race is held in a different location within Estonia, to prevent any advantage to any local teams which holding it in the same place every year would engender.<\/p>\n<p>The contest requires teams to traverse a long-distance course of about 100 km in four days, moving covertly, from checkpoint to checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>At present, 29 four-strong teams from nine states have registered, including two from Finland, and one each from Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, France, Denmark and the U.S. A joint U.S.-Estonian team is also taking part, while on the domestic front, teams representing the Naiskodukaitse, the Women&#39;s Defense League, are to take part, along with teams from the Harju, J&auml;rva, P&auml;rnu, Rapla, Tallinn, Tartu, J&otilde;geva and Valga Defence League districts.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) teams will also take part, as well as one from the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA).<\/p>\n<p>While last year&#39;s contest was canceled due to the pandemic, participants need only provide vaccine or negative test proof, or agree to a rapid test on arrival<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Johan Pitka was commander of the Estonian Navy (Merev&auml;gi) during the 1918-1920 War of Independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in an annual military navigation race, scheduled for August 4-7, currently number 27, four-member teams, from nine countries. 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