Liisa Peltola (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Liukkonen, formerly Veijalainen; born 4 April 1951) is a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

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 ...

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, indivi ...

. She won the 1976 Individual

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 ...

,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on November 19, 2007) and took

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

1978 and 1979. She is also three times Relay World Champion, as a member of the

winning team 1972, 1978 and 1979 (silver 1976 and 1981).

Selected works

* Autobiography. Swedish edition:

References

1951 births Living people Finnish orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Women autobiographers Finnish autobiographers {{Finland-orienteering-bio-stub