1968 World Orienteering Championships

1968 edition of the World Orienteering Championships

1968 World Orienteering Championships
Host city	Linköping
Country	Sweden
Events	4
← 1966 Fiskars 1970 Friedrichroda →

The 2nd World Orienteering Championships were held in Linköping, Sweden, 28–29 September 1968.^[1]

The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.

The men's individual course had 18 controls over 14.6 kilometres, while the women's individual course had 10 controls over 7.8 kilometres.^[2]

Swedish Television (SVT) broadcast the entire individual competition live. This was the first time ever orienteering was shown live on TV in Sweden,^[3] or in any other country in the world.^[4]

Medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's individual^[1]	Karl Johansson (SWE)	1:48:19	Sture Björk (SWE)	1:49:38	Åge Hadler (NOR)	1:50:13
Women's individual^[1]	Ulla Lindkvist (SWE)	1:04:55	Ingrid Hadler (NOR)	1:10:35	Kerstin Granstedt (SWE)	1:11:27
Men's relay^[1]	Sweden (SWE) Sture Björk Karl Johansson Sten-Olof Carlström Göran Öhlund	4:25:19	Finland (FIN) Rolf Koskinen Veijo Tahvanainen Juhani Salmenkylä Markku Salminen	4:25:28	Norway (NOR) Per Fosser Ola Skarholt Stig Berge Åge Hadler	4:42:31
Women's relay^[1]	Norway (NOR) Astrid Rødmyr Astrid Hansen Ingrid Hadler	3:17:53	Sweden (SWE) Gun-Britt Nyberg Kerstin Granstedt Ulla Lindkvist	3:18:07	Finland (FIN) Pirjo Seppä Tuula Hovi Raila Kerkelä	3:42:15

Results

Men's individual

WOC 1968 – Individual – Men (14.6 km)^[1]
Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Karl Johansson	Sweden	1:48:19
	Sture Björk	Sweden	1:49:38
	Åge Hadler	Norway	1:50:13
4	Juhani Salmenkylä	Finland	1:51:18
5	Ola Skarholt	Norway	1:51:48
6	Sten-Olof Carlström	Sweden	1:53:37
7	Jostein Nilsen	Norway	1:54:16
8	Stig Berge	Norway	1:54:32
9	Pauli Reunamäki	Finland	1:55:27
10	Veijo Tahvanainen	Finland	1:55:30

Women's individual

WOC 1968 – Individual – Women (7.8 km)^[1]
Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Ulla Lindkvist	Sweden	1:04:55
	Ingrid Hadler	Norway	1:10:35
	Kerstin Granstedt	Sweden	1:11:27
4	Pirjo Seppä	Finland
5	Raila Kerkelä	Finland
6	Vibeke Bøgevig	Denmark
7	Jitenka Sevcikova	Czechoslovakia
8	Birgitta Larsson	Sweden
9	Inga-Britt Bengtsson	Sweden
10	Astrid Rødmyr	Norway
11	Tuula Hovi	Finland
12	Katharina Mo	Norway	1:28:50

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "World Orienteering Championships 1968". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
^ Berglia, Knut; Brohaug, Tom-Erik; Staver, Kristoffer; Thuesen, Kaare; Strandhagen, Torgeir, eds. (1987). Orienteringsidretten i Norge gjennom 90 år (in Norwegian). Norwegian Orienteering Federation. p. 340.
^ VM Orientering 1968, retrieved 2022-01-19
^ Idrottsåret 1968, retrieved 2022-01-19