Lars Holmqvist (born 1 September 1961) is a Swedish

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 ...

competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, ind ...

. He received a bronze medal 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 swit ...

event'' at the 1995

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 Detmold, together with

Jimmy Birklin Jimmy Birklin (born 12 January 1970) is a Swedish orienteering competitor, winner of the 2001 Sprint World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the In ...

Johan Ivarsson Johan Ivarsson may refer to: * Johan Ivarsson (orienteer) Johan Ivarsson (born 16 March 1967) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He won the overall world cup in 1996. World championships He participated at the 1995 World Orienteering Cham ...

and

Jörgen Mårtensson Jörgen Mårtensson (born 4 December 1959) is one of the most successful Swedish orienteer of all times. Twice a winner of the World Orienteering Championships, he also won the 5 days O-Ringen in 1981 (at age 21), 1996 and 1997 (at age 37). Fur ...

, and placed fifth in the ''short distance''. He placed 12th in the overall

Orienteering World Cup The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The official World Cup was held first in 1986, and then ever ...

in 1994.

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1961 births Living people Swedish male orienteers Swedish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub