Elena Roos (born 1991) is a female

orienteering 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 s ...

competitor who runs for

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. She won her first

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

medal at the

2017 World Orienteering Championships The 34th World Orienteering Championships were held in Tartu, Estonia in June/July 2017. The official name of the event is Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships 2017 after the title sponsor Nokian Tyres Nokian Tyres plc ( fi, Nokian Re ...

, receiving a bronze in the Mixed Sprint Relay along with

Sabine Hauswirth Sabine Hauswirth (born 8 December 1987) is a Swiss orienteering competitor. She won a gold medal in the relay in the 2014 World Orienteering Championships in Asiago-Lavarone Lavarone (Cimbrian: ''Lavròu''; in local dialect ''Lavarón'') is a ...

Martin Hubmann Martin Hubmann (born 14 May 1989) is a Swiss orienteering competitor, world champion and European champion. He was a member of the relay team that won gold medals at the 2012 European Orienteering Championships in Falun. He won a gold medal in th ...

and Florian Howald. In the same year, she won the silver medal at The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. She runs for Orientisti 92 Piano di Magadino (Ticino, Switzerland) and Halden SK (Norway)

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* * 1991 births Living people Swiss orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games silver medalists World Games bronze medalists Competitors at the 2017 World Games Competitors at the 2022 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering 20th-century Swiss women 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-orienteering-bio-stub