Outi Borgenström (formerly Borgenström-Anjala; born 24 January 1956 in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

) is a Finnish

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. She won the 1979 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

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

1974. She is also Relay World Champion, as a member of the Finnish winning team 1978 (silver 1976 and 1981). Borgenström and orienteer Ari Anjala have a son,

Topi Anjala Topi Anjala (born 5 July 1984) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He represented Finland at the 2009 World Orienteering Championships in Miskolc, where he placed 15th in the long distance, and won a bronze medal in the ''relay'', together with ...

, who is also an orienteer.

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1956 births Living people Sportspeople from Tampere Finnish female orienteers Finnish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Finnish women 21st-century Finnish women {{Finland-orienteering-bio-stub

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