Ulla Lindkvist
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| Born | 30 August 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 August 2015 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ulla Lindkvist (30 August 1939 – 6 August 2015) was a Swedish orienteering competitor, and the first individual female world champion in this sport.[1] She won the 1966 and 1968 Individual World Orienteering Championships,[2] and finished second 1970.[3] She became Relay World Champion in 1970 as a member of the Swedish team (together with Birgitta Larsson and Eivor Steen-Olsson).[3] She also participated on the teams that obtained silver medals in 1968 and 1972.
Lindkvist holds the record for the number of overall O-Ringen victories, and number of O-Ringen wins in a row, winning eight in a row from 1967 to 1974.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Sveriges första världsmästarinna har lämnat oss" (in Swedish). Svenska Orienteringsförbundet. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966–2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on November 19, 2007)
- ^ a b "World Orienteering Championships 1970". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 22 October 2016.