Finnish Orienteering Federation
The Finnish Orienteering Federation ( fi, Suomen Suunnistusliitto, SSL, sv, Finlands Orienteringsförbund) is the governing body for the sport of orienteering in Finland. The federation was founded in 1945 and has approximately 60,000 members.orientering
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Uppslagsverket Finland

. Last updated 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2018-11-17. The Finnish Orienteering Federation publishes the orienteering magazine ''Suunnistaja''.

History

The Finnish Orienteering Federation was among the ten founding members of IOF in 1961. Finland hosted the very first

Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ...
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Liisa Veijalainen
Liisa Peltola (née Liukkonen, formerly Veijalainen; born 4 April 1951) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She won the 1976 Individual World Orienteering Championships,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on November 19, 2007) and took 1978 and 1979. She is also three times Relay World Champion, as a member of the