Rehns BK is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

sports club in

Bollnäs Bollnäs () is a Swedish locality and the seat of Bollnäs Municipality, in Gävleborg County, Sweden. It had 26,937 inhabitants in 2017 History The first recording of Bollnäs in writing is from 1312 when a vicar named Ingemund referred to it ...

, which practices

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 ...

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

and

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

(mainly running). It started with

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

in 1933, but that sport was dropped in 1946. The name refers the eastern district of Bollnäs, Ren/Rehn.

Orienteering

The club started with orienteering in 1936. It was one of the arranging clubs of O-ringen in 1981, 2006 and 2011. Its team won the Swedish championships in relay in 1973 with

Folke Lysell Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down. ...

, Karl-Erik Jonsson, Kaj Hoof, Stefan Persson. Kaj Hoof, substituting the injured Lars-Ivar Svensson started the third leg in the 19th position and sent Stefan Persson out as the third. Stefan Persson has won three times the Swedish Championships in night orienteering. In 1975 Rehns BK arranged a competition for the 30 best orienteers in the world with Persson as the course designer. It was the first orienteering competition sent on television.

Jerker Lysell Jerker Lysell (born 27 April 1989) is a Swedish orienteering competitor, and world champion in sprint. Career Lysell won a bronze medal in the sprint at the 2012 European Orienteering Championships in Falun, tying with Daniel Hubmann. He com ...

, world champion in 2016, represents the club. Marit Wiksell won the World Championships in precision orienteering in Portugal in 2019.{{cite journal , last1=Fahlman , first1=Fredrik , title=Det här var det stora målet , journal=Söderhamnskuriren , date=2019-07-03 , page=18 , url=https://tidningar.kb.se/10423844/2019-07-03/edition/159836/part/1/page/18/ , accessdate=23 May 2020

References

Orienteering clubs in Sweden Sport in Bollnäs Ski clubs in Sweden