Ann-Marie Wallsten

Ann-Marie Wallsten (born 21 August 1943) is a Swedish

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competitor and European champion. She won a silver medal in the individual event and a gold medal in the relay event at the 1964

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(Retrieved on June 9, 2008) Wallsten won a gold medal at the 1964 Swedish orienteering championships, winning the relay with the club IF Goterna. She was selected to represent Sweden at the European Championships in Switzerland in September. In 1964 the European Championships were the top international orienteering events; from 1966 they were replaced by the

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and held every second year over the next decennium. The competition terrain in Le Brassus in 1964 consisted of a mixture of

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forests and open grazing land at an altitude between 1,300 and 1,700 metres. The

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prepared for the competitions were special editions of Swiss military maps of scale 1:25,000. The women's individual contest was held on Saturday, 26 September. The course had a length of 8.1 kilometers and ten control points. Wallsten finished second in the race, behind Margrit Thommen from Switzerland. In the relay contest the next day, the Swedish team won gold medals, winning with a time margin of forty minutes ahead of the Swiss team. The Swedish winning team consisted of Wallsten,

Eivor Steen-Olsson Eivor Steen-Olsson (born 1937) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She is two times Relay World Champion as a member of the Swedish winning team in 1966 and 1970.

and

Ulla Lindkvist Ulla Lindkvist (30 August 1939 – 6 August 2015) was a Swedish orienteering competitor, and the first individual female world champion in this sport. She won the 1966 and 1968 Individual World Orienteering Championships,1943 births Living people Swedish orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub