Kari Sallinen
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Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 24 September 1959 | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Orienteering | ||||||||||||||||
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Kari Sallinen (born September 24, 1959) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He was the first Finn who won the Individual World Orienteering Championships. The competition was held in the year 1985 in Bendigo, Australia.[1][2] He was also part of the Finnish team that obtained bronze in the 1981 Relay World Championship in Thun, Switzerland.[3]
See also[]
- Finnish orienteers
- List of orienteers
- List of orienteering events
References[]
- ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-02-22 at WebCite (Retrieved on January 8, 2007)
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 1985". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 1981". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Finnish orienteers
- Male orienteers
- Foot orienteers
- World Orienteering Championships medalists
- Finnish orienteering biography stubs