Ulla Lindkvist (30 August 1939 – 6 August 2015) was a Swedish

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 ...

competitor, and the first individual female world champion in this sport. She won the 1966 and

1968 The year was highlighted by Protests of 1968, protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechos ...

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 2 ...

,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966–2006
(Retrieved on November 19, 2007) and finished second

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 1 ...

. She became Relay World Champion in 1970 as a member of the Swedish team (together with Birgitta Larsson and

Eivor Steen-Olsson Eivor Steen-Olsson (born 1937) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She is two times Relay World Champion as a member of the Swedish winning team in 1966 and 1970.

). She also participated on the teams that obtained silver medals in 1968 and 1972.

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1939 births 2015 deaths Swedish orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub