Olavi Svanberg
Olavi Armas Svanberg (born December 10, 1941 in Sysmä ; † August 25, 2002 in Lake Ladoga , Russia ) was a Finnish orienteer ski runner .
Svanberg, who won his first Finnish championship title in 1972, was already 33 years old when an official world championship in orienteering skiing was held for the first time in 1975 in Hyvinkää in southern Finland . Svanberg was able to win the first world title in an individual competition before his compatriots Jorma Karvonen and Heimo Taskinen . The three Finnish medal winners also won gold in the relay with Pekka Pökälä before the relay from Sweden and Switzerland. From 1980 to 1984 he won three more relay medals in a row (two silver and one bronze). At the 1982 World Cup in Aigen , he also won the individual competition a second time, this time ahead of the Finn Pertti Tikka and the Norwegian Sigurd Dæhli .
Svanberg won the Finnish championship four times between 1972 and 1978. During his career he belonged to the associations Kiteen Urheilijat , Sysmän Sisu and Joutsan Pommi . From 1998 on, Svanberg was a supervisor in the Finnish national ski orienteering team.
Svanberg drowned on August 25, 2002 at the age of 60 in Lake Ladoga .
Web links
- Obituary kaleva.fi, August 27, 2002; Finnish
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Svanberg, Olavi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Svanberg, Olavi Armas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ski orienteer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sysmä , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 2002 |
| Place of death | Lake Ladoga , Russia |