Leena Salmenkylä (born 13 March 1958) is a Finnish

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

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, individ ...

and world champion. She won a

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...

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 switc ...

event'' at the 1979

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

, with

Leena Silvennoinen Leena Silvennoinen (born March 7, 1958) is a Finnish orienteering competitor and world champion. She won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere, with Leena Salmenkylä and Liisa Veijalainen ...

and Liisa Veijalainen on the Finnish

relay team A relay race is a racing competition where members of a team take turns completing parts of Race track, racecourse or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games. Relay races are common in runni ...

.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on July 1, 2008)

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1958 births Living people Finnish female orienteers Finnish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Finland-orienteering-bio-stub

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