Wikipedia / List of orienteers
Wikipedia / List of orienteers
This is a list of all orienteering competitors found in Wikipedia and notable within the orienteering sport.
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Yvette Baker, United Kingdom, won World Orienteering Championships short distance 1999 in Inverness
Jan Beneš, Czech Republic, became Junior World Champion in the middle distance in Druskininkai in 2006
Jimmy Birklin, Sweden, winner of the 2001 Sprint World Orienteering Championships
Ida Marie Bjørgul, Norway, received a silver medal in the middle distance at the 2007 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Dubbo, Australia
Anna Bogren, Sweden, won the 1993 short distance World Orienteering Championships
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Astrid Carlson, Norway, relay silver at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships
Ksenia Chernykh, Russia, individual gold medals at the 2007 and 2008 World MTB Orienteering Championships
Alicia Cobo, Spain, finalist in World Orienteering Championships in Finland 2013
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Martin Johansson (born 1984), Sweden
Martin Johansson (born 1964), Sweden
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Michael Mamleev, Italy and Russia
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Yuri Omeltchenko, Ukraine, winner of the 1995 World Orienteering Championships short distance
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By country
Innovators
Chris Brasher, one of the pioneers of orienteering in Britain and can claim the first public mention of the sport in an article in The Observer in 1957
Ernst Killander, one of the people who made the sport of orienteering popular in Scandinavian countries
Björn Kjellström, orienteering champion and co-founder of the compass manufacturing company Silva Sweden AB
Jan Kjellström, played an important role in the development of the sport of orienteering in Great Britain
Per Kristiansen, involved in orienteering training in Norway and also written several books on handbook on training and competition
Martin Kronlund, introduced and developed the sport of orienteering in Spain
Jan Martin Larsen, pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map
References