1968 World Orienteering Championships

1968 edition of the World Orienteering Championships 1968 World Orienteering Championships Linköping Sweden 4 1966 Fiskars 1970 Friedrichroda The 2nd World Orienteering Championships were held in Linköping, Sweden, 28–29 September 1968.https://old.orienteering.org/events/?event_id=10 World Orienteering Championships 1968 International Orienteering Federation 25 October 2016 6 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200706033933/https://old.orienteering.org/events/?event_id=10 dead The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women. The men's individual course had 18 controls over 14.6 kilometres, while the women's individual course had 10 controls over 7.8 kilometres.Orienteringsidretten i Norge gjennom 90 år Berglia, Knut Brohaug, Tom-Erik Staver, Kristoffer Thuesen, Kaare Strandhagen, Torgeir 340 1987 Norwegian Norwegian Orienteering Federation Swedish Television (SVT) broadcast the entire individual competition live. This was the first time ever orienteering was shown live on TV in Sweden,VM Orientering 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjyA7TD3h8g en 2022-01-19 or in any other country in the world.Idrottsåret 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3rRHpB9s4&t=712s en 2022-01-19 Medalists Men's individual Karl Johansson SWE 1:48:19 Sture Björk SWE 1:49:38 Åge Hadler NOR 1:50:13 Women's individual Ulla Lindkvist SWE 1:04:55 Ingrid Hadler NOR 1:10:35 Kerstin Granstedt SWE 1:11:27 Men's relay font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; SWE Sture Björk Karl Johansson Sten-Olof Carlström Göran Öhlund 4:25:19 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; FIN Rolf Koskinen Veijo Tahvanainen Juhani Salmenkylä Markku Salminen 4:25:28 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; NOR Per Fosser Ola Skarholt Stig Berge Åge Hadler 4:42:31 Women's relay font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; NOR Astrid Rødmyr Astrid Hansen Ingrid Hadler 3:17:53 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; SWE Gun-Britt Nyberg Kerstin Granstedt Ulla Lindkvist 3:18:07 font-size:90% font-weight:500; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; FIN Pirjo Seppä Tuula Hovi Raila Kerkelä 3:42:15 Results Men's individual + WOC 1968 – Individual – Men (14.6 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Karl Johansson usue SWE 1:48:19 Sture Björk usue SWE 1:49:38 Åge Hadler usue NOR 1:50:13 4 Juhani Salmenkylä usue FIN 1:51:18 5 Ola Skarholt usue NOR 1:51:48 6 Sten-Olof Carlström usue SWE 1:53:37 7 Jostein Nilsen usue NOR 1:54:16 8 Stig Berge usue NOR 1:54:32 9 Pauli Reunamäki usue FIN 1:55:27 10 Veijo Tahvanainen usue FIN 1:55:30 Women's individual + WOC 1968 – Individual – Women (7.8 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Ulla Lindkvist usue SWE 1:04:55 Ingrid Hadler usue NOR 1:10:35 Kerstin Granstedt usue SWE 1:11:27 4 Pirjo Seppä usue FIN 5 Raila Kerkelä usue FIN 6 Vibeke Bøgevig usue DEN 7 Jitenka Sevcikova usue TCH 8 Birgitta Larsson usue SWE 9 Inga-Britt Bengtsson usue SWE 10 Astrid Rødmyr usue NOR 11 Tuula Hovi usue FIN 12 Katharina Mo usue NOR 1:28:50 References Category:World Orienteering Championships Category:1968 in Swedish sport Category:International sports competitions hosted by Sweden Category:Sports competitions in Linköping Category:September 1968 sports events in Europe Category:Orienteering in Sweden Category:20th century in Östergötland County