1966 World Orienteering Championships

1966 edition of the World Orienteering Championships 1966 World Orienteering Championships Fiskars Finland 11 10 (men)9 (women) 58 (men)35 (women) 4 1966 10 01 y 1966 10 02 y 1968 Linköping The 1st World Orienteering Championships were held in the village of Fiskars, Finland, 1–2 October 1966.https://old.orienteering.org/events/?event_id=6 World Orienteering Championships 1966 International Orienteering Federation 22 October 2016 6 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200706033745/https://old.orienteering.org/events/?event_id=6 dead Participants from eleven nations competed in the championships: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The medals were distributed between Sweden (3 gold, 1 bronze), Finland (3 silver, 1 bronze), Norway (1 gold, 2 bronze) and Switzerland (1 silver medal). The men's individual course had 11 controls over 14.1 kilometres, while the women's individual course had 10 controls over 8.1 kilometres.Orienteringsidretten i Norge gjennom 90 år Berglia, Knut Brohaug, Tom-Erik Staver, Kristoffer Thuesen, Kaare Strandhagen, Torgeir 339 1987 Norwegian Norwegian Orienteering Federation The first individual world champions in orienteering came from Norway and Sweden. Winner of the men's competition was Åge Hadler from Norway. Hadler regarded the eighth control, which was located in thick forest, as the most difficult, where the last part of the leg required meticulous map reading and frequent checking of the compass.Berglia (1987): p. 228–229 Ulla Lindkvist from Sweden won the women's competition. Sweden won the men's relay, which had four legs, with a margin of nearly eight minutes. Sweden also won the women's relay, which had three legs, with a margin of 21 seconds to silver medalist Finland. The championships were attended by President of Finland, Urho Kekkonen, who was present at the finishing area.Berglia (1987): p. 228 Medalists Men's individual Åge Hadler NOR 1:36:05 Aimo Tepsell FIN 1:38:47 Anders Morelius SWE 1:40:05 Women's individual Ulla Lindkvist SWE 52:45 Katharina Perch-Nielsen SUI 1:00:30 Raila Hovi FIN 1:00:51 Men's relay font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; SWE Bertil Norman Karl Johansson Anders Morelius Göran Öhlund 3.51.42 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; FIN Erkki Kohvakka Rolf Koskinen Juhani Salmenkylä Aimo Tepsell 3.59.34 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; NOR Dagfinn Olsen Ola Skarholt Åge Hadler Stig Berge 4.26.35 Women's relay font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; SWE Kerstin Granstedt Eivor Steen-Olsson Gunborg Åhling 2.42.58 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; FIN Anja Meldo Pirjo Ruotsalainen Raila Hovi 2.43.19 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; NOR Astrid Hansen Ragnhild Kristensen Ingrid Thoresen 2.54.29 Results Men's individual + WOC 1966 – Individual – Men (14.1 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Åge Hadler usue NOR 1:36:05 Aimo Tepsell usue FIN 1:38:47 Anders Morelius usue SWE 1:40:05 4 Dagfinn Olsen usue NOR 1:40:37 5 Juhani Salmenkylä usue FIN 1:40:38 6 Göran Öhlund usue SWE 1:41:05 7 Rolf Koskinen usue FIN 1:41:11 8 Stig Berge usue NOR 1:42:23 9 Karl Johansson usue SWE 1:42:48 10 Heino Avikainen usue FIN 1:45:38 11 Erkki Kohvakka usue FIN 1:45:52 12 Ola Skarholt usue NOR 1:45:57 13 Hans Ekberg usue SWE 1:48:10 14 Jostein Nilsen usue NOR 1:48:26 15 Hannu Haarma usue FIN 1:49:10 16 Alex Schwager usue SUI 1:50:08 17 Bertil Norman usue SWE 1:50:26 18 Erik Engebråten usue NOR 1:50:30 19 Sven-Ola Darell usue SWE 1:51:19 20 Keld Olsen usue DEN 1:54:41 21 Leif Nörgård usue DEN 1:55:16 22 Flemming Nörgård usue DEN 2:00:16 23 Svatoslav Galík usue TCH 2:03:41 24 Max Jüni usue SUI 2:06:06 25 Finn Faxner usue DEN 2:07:20 26 Christian Jaggi usue SUI 2:08:57 27 Fritz Maurer usue SUI 2:12:02 28 Helmut Conrad usue DDR 2:12:26 29 Roland Hirter usue SUI 2:12:27 30 Peter Nilsen usue DEN 2:13:17 31 Jindrich Novotny usue TCH 2:13:25 32 Jörn Esbensen usue DEN 2:16:21 33 Harald Grosse usue DDR 2:16:45 34 Andreas Örsi usue HUN 2:17:42 35 Antonin Urbanec usue TCH 2:17:47 36 Gustav Bartak usue TCH 2:20:03 37 Iwan Skerletz usue HUN 2:20:34 38 Alois Lasnicka usue TCH 2:27:27 39 Georg Schönviszky usue BUL 2:30:05 40 Franz Trampusch usue AUT 2:32:08 41 Ernst Saxer usue SUI 2:32:27 42 Alistair Patten usue GBR 2:33:09 43 Ladislaus Deseö usue HUN 2:33:27 44 Rolf Heinemann usue DDR 2:33:37 45 Michail Galov usue BUL 2:36:06 46 Gordon Pirie usue GBR 2:43:48 47 Thomas Balogh usue HUN 2:45:48 48 David Griffiths usue GBR 2:47:07 49 John Disley usue GBR 2:48:56 50 Georgi Gealtov usue BUL 2:51:24 51 Achim Zemanek usue DDR 3:01:56 52 Haralan Haralanoff usue AUT 3:05:55 53 Michael Murray usue GBR 3:16:52 54 Raimund Sobotka usue AUT 3:23:57 55 Tony Walker usue GBR 3:29:12 56 Grigor Kaloianov usue BUL 3:55:30 DSQ Nikola Bedelev usue BUL DSQ Sepp Michael Pacher usue AUT Women's individual + WOC 1966 – Individual – Women Rank Competitor Nation Time Ulla Lindkvist usue SWE 52:45 Katherina Perch-Nielsen usue SUI 1:00:30 Raila Hovi usue FIN 1:00:51 4 Kerstin Granstedt usue SWE 1:01:30 5 Eivor Steen-Olsson usue SWE 1:02:54 6 Ingrid Thoresen usue NOR 1:03:29 7 Annakäthi Grieder usue SUI 1:04:58 8 Anja Meldo usue FIN 1:05:06 9 Sarolta Monspart usue HUN 1:05:25 10 Gunborg Åhling usue SWE 1:05:33 11 Ragnhild Kristensen usue NOR 1:09:36 12 Vibeke Såbye Christensen usue DEN 1:11:44 13 Barbara Cser usue HUN 1:12:18 14 Astrid Hansen usue NOR 1:13:07 15 Erika Wauer usue DDR 1:14:05 16 Marianne Selbo usue DEN 1:16:20 17 Nadezda Linhartova usue TCH 1:16:59 18 Pirjo Ruotsalainen usue FIN 1:17:38 19 Anna-Liisa Nissi usue FIN 1:17:50 20 Ulrike Heinemann usue DDR 1:18:08 21 Dobruse Novotna usue TCH 1:19:40 22 Karin Ågesen usue DEN 1:23:10 23 Ria Meyer usue DDR 1:24:29 24 Ludmila Kumbarova usue TCH 1:28:23 25 Delia Stoeva usue BUL 1:28:44 26 Irene Köhli usue SUI 1:29:15 27 Bjørg Knudsen usue NOR 1:38:05 28 Eliza Stoianova usue BUL 1:39:35 29 Olga Tascheva usue BUL 1:40:52 30 Eva Hohausova usue TCH 1:44:52 31 Christine Lüdin usue SUI 1:49:34 32 Bodil Jakobsen usue DEN 1:51:43 33 Margarete Babay usue HUN 2:10:58 34 Gisela Haralanoff usue AUT 2:25:14 35 Magdalene Molnar usue HUN 2:25:59 References Category:World Orienteering Championships Category:1966 in Finnish sport Category:International sports competitions hosted by Finland Category:October 1966 sports events in Europe Category:Orienteering in Finland Category:Raseborg Category:Sport in Uusimaa