Jerker Lysell (born 27 April 1989) is a Swedish orienteering competitor, and world champion in sprint.

Career

Lysell won a bronze medal in the sprint at the 2012

European Orienteering Championships The European Orienteering Championships were first held in 1962. They have been held biennially since 2000. From 2020, the European Orienteering Championships will be held annually, with sprint events and forest events in alternate years. Format T ...

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabitan ...

, tying with Daniel Hubmann. He competed at the 2012

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 2 ...

. In the sprint competition he qualified for the final, where he placed 13th. He won gold medal in sprint at the 2016 World Orienteering Championships in

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. At the 2017 World Orienteering Championships in Tartu he was part of the Swedish winning team in the mixed sprint relay, and he won a bronze medal in the sprint contest.

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* Living people Swedish orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games gold medalists World Games bronze medalists 1989 births {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub Competitors at the 2013 World Games Competitors at the 2017 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering 21st-century Swedish people