Kaija Silvennoinen (née Halonen; born May 5, 1954) is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor. At the

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance compe ...

in 1977 in Velingrad,

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, she won a gold medal in the relay, with

Aila Flöjt Aila Flöjt (born 22 September 1946) is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor. At the World Ski Orienteering Championships in 1975 she won a gold medal with the Finnish relay team, together with Raili Sallinen and Sinikka Kukkonen, and place ...

and

Sinikka Kukkonen Sinikka Kukkonen (1 August 1947 – 25 July 2016) was a Finnish orienteering competitor. She is World Champion in both orienteering and ski orienteering. She became the first World Champion in ski orienteering, in 1975. Orienteering career At ...

, and placed fourth in the individual contest. At the

in 1980 she won a

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with the Finnish

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, together with

Mirja Puhakka Mirja Puhakka (born 30 April 1955 in Sippola) is a Finnish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. She received an individual gold medal at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Avesta in 1980, and again in Lavarone in 198 ...

and

, and a

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in the individual contest.

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