Olavi Svanberg (December 10, 1941, Sysmä, Finland – August 25, 2002, Lake Ladoga, Russia) was a Finland, Finnish ski-orienteering Competition, competitor and world champion.
He received an individual gold medal at the first World Ski Orienteering Championships in Hyvinkää in 1975, and also won the first gold medal in the ''Relay race, relay event'' with the Finland, Finnish team (Pekka Pökälä, Heimo Taskinen, Jorma Karvonen and Olavi Svanberg).
[World Ski Orienteering Championships]
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 27 October 2008) He was again world champion in 1982 in Aigen im Ennstal, Aigen.
See also
* :Finnish orienteers, Finnish orienteers
* List of orienteers
* List of orienteering events
References
1941 births
2002 deaths
Finnish orienteers
Male orienteers
Ski-orienteers
People from Sysmä
Sportspeople from Päijät-Häme
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