Kerstin Granstedt

Kerstin Granstedt is a

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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 ...

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. She became Relay World Champion in

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in 1966, as a member of the

winning team, with

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

Gunborg Åhling Gunborg Åhling (born 16 July 1936) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She competed at the very first World Orienteering Championships, in Fiskars in 1966, where she won a gold medal in the ''relay'' together with Kerstin Granstedt and Eivor ...

.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 20 December 2007) She finished fourth in the individual event at these championships, which were the very first

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in Orienteering. At the 1968

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 Linköping Granstedt won an individual bronze medal, and a

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in the ''

relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch ...

event'' together with

Gun-Britt Nyberg Gun-Britt Nyberg (born 8 March 1943) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She received a silver medal in the ''relay event'' at the 1968 World Orienteering Championships in Linköping, together with Kerstin Granstedt and Ulla Lindkvist Ulla ...

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,Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Swedish orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub