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EXTENDING STECHKIN’S THEOREM AND BEYOND TUDOR ZAMFIRESCU Received 24 November 2003 We generalize Stechkin’s theorem about the single-valuedness of the nearest point map- ping at most points to any complete length space without bifurcating geodesics and make further observations. Let K ⊂ Rd be a closed set and pK the nearest point mapping, which associates with every point x ∈ Rd the set of all points in K closest to x . It is well known that pK is single-valued a.e. The topological counterpart was provided by Stechkin [6] in 1963, who