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| Born | 7 May 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ski orienteering | ||||||||||||||||
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Salla Koskela (born 7 May 1992) is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor. [1]
At the 2017 World Ski Orienteering Championships she won a silver medal in women's sprint, [2] as well as in the middle distance.
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering. For the purposes of this article, foot orienteering serves as a point of departure for discussion of all other variations, but almost any sport that involves racing against a clock and requires navigation with a map is a type of orienteering.
Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen is a Norwegian cross-country skier. Her first Olympic medal was a silver 4 × 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she took the bronze medal in the 10 km classical interval start event. Pedersen is the oldest woman ever to win a cross country skiing World Cup race, which she did at age 41 in January 2006 in Otepää, Estonia.
Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, World champion and European champion. She took the overall victory in the 2008 World Cup.
Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF. A successful ski orienteer combines high physical endurance, strength and excellent technical skiing skills with the ability to navigate and make the best route choices while skiing at a high speed.
The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance competitions, and a Relay for both men and women. The first Ski-WOC was held in 1975.
Lena Hasselström is a Swedish ski-orienteering competitor, world champion and winner of the overall world cup.
Mervi Väisänen is a Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor.
Tove Alexandersson is a Swedish orienteer, ski orienteer, and skyrunner. She is a ten-time world champion in orienteering, a ten-time world champion in ski-orienteering and a one-time world champion in skyrunning. She competes for Stora Tuna OK in orienteering and Alfta-Ösa OK in ski orienteering.
Jerker Lysell is a Swedish orienteering competitor, and world champion in sprint.
Andrine Benjaminsen is a Norwegian orienteer and ski orienteer.
Julia Jakob, formerly Julia Gross is a Swiss orienteer. She was born in Richterswil and resides in Zürich.
Jan Petržela is a Czech orienteer.
Andrey Grigoriev is a Russian ski orienteering competitor.
Ulrik Nordberg is a Swedish ski orienteering competitor.
Sergey Yuryevich Gorlanov is a Russian ski orienteering competitor.
Milka Reponen is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor.
Marjut Turunen is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor.
Audhild Bakken Rognstad is a Norwegian ski orienteering competitor.
Barbro Kvåle is a Norwegian cross country skier and ski orienteering competitor.
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