The Finnish Orienteering Federation ( fi, Suomen Suunnistusliitto, SSL, sv, Finlands Orienteringsförbund) is the governing body for the sport of

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 ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The federation was founded in 1945 and has approximately 60,000 members.orientering
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Uppslagsverket Finland ''Uppslagsverket Finland'' ('Encyclopedia Finland') is a Swedish-language encyclopedia with a focus on Finland and in particular Finland-Swedish subjects. The encyclopedia is published by initiative of an association dedicated to this task, ( ...

. 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

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 20 ...

, in 1966.Berglia 1957 pp. 203–204 The Finnish female team won gold medals in the relay at the 1972, 1978, 1979, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 world championships, and the men's relay team won a gold medal in 2001, and silver medals in 1966, 1968, 1974, 1979, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2006. Among Finnish individual world champions in foot orienteering are Kari Sallinen, Jani Lakanen, Janne Salmi, Pasi Ikonen, Mårten Boström,

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,

, Outi Borgenström-Anjala, Kirsi Boström,

Minna Kauppi Minna Kauppi (born 25 November 1982) is a Finnish orienteer, who was born in Asikkala and lives in Lahti. Kauppi is a nine-time World Champion, including five golds from relays. Kauppi anchored her Finnish club Asikkalan Raikas to a victory in t ...

and

Heli Jukkola Heli Jukkola (born 26 November 1979 in Noormarkku)Profile: Heli Jukkola
– ''Worl ...

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International Orienteering Federation members Or Organisations based in Helsinki Orienteering in Finland {{Orienteering-org-stub

History

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