Kari Sallinen
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| Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1959 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Orienteering | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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] He won the Jukola relay in 1987.[4]
His mother is Raili Sallinen.
See also
- Finnish orienteers
- List of orienteers
- List of orienteering events
References
- ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (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.
- ^ "Jukola Relay winners 1949-". Jukola.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.