Orienteering World Championships 1966

The first orienteering world championships were held on October 1 and 2. October 1966 in Finnish Fiskars (finn. Fiskari) in Uusimaa instead.

The title fights were awarded to Finland at the 2nd IOF Congress in Leipzig in 1963 . Originally, they were to be held as the third European championships after 1962 in Norway and 1964 in Switzerland. At the 3rd IOF Congress in 1965 in Kamschia , Bulgaria , it was decided to hold world instead of European championships with immediate effect in order to promote the development of orienteering.

Men's

singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	NOR	Åge Hadler	1:36:05 h
2	FIN	Aimo Tepsell	1:38:47 h
3	SWE	Morelius is different	1:40:05 h
4th	NOR	Dagfinn Olsen	1:40:37 h
5	FIN	Juhani Salmenkylä	1:40:38 h
6th	SWE	Göran Öhlund	1:41:05 h
7th	FIN	Rolf Koskinen	1:41:11 h
8th	NOR	Stig mountains	1:42:23 h

Individual:
Length: 14.1 km
Post: 11

The first individual world champion in orienteering was Åge Hadler from Norway . The top 15 included six runners from Finland, five from Norway and four from Sweden.

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Bertil Norman Karl Johansson Anders Morelius Göran Öhlund	3:51:42 h
2	FIN	Erkki Kohvakka Rolf Koskinen Juhani Salmenkylä Aimo Tepsell	3:59:34 h
3	NOR	Dagfinn Olsen Ola Skarholt Åge Hadler Stig Berge	4:26:35 h
4th	SUI	Alex brother-in-law Fritz Maurer Max Jüni Christian Jaggi	5:08:00 h
5	THE	Flemming Nørgaard Finn Faxner Leif Nørgaard Keld Olsen	5:14:25 h
6th	TCH	Jindřich Novotný Antonín Urbanec Gustav Barták Svatoslav Galík	5:18:06 h
7th	GDR	Rolf Heinemann Achim Zemanek Harald Grosse Helmut Conrad	5:41:14 h
8th	HUN	Andreas Örsi Ladislaus Deseö Georg Schönviszky Iwan Skerletz	6:00:33 h

Ladies

singles

space	country	Athlete	time
1	SWE	Ulla Lindkvist	0:52:45 h
2	SUI	Katharina Perch-Nielsen	1:00:30 h
3	FIN	Raila Hovi	1:00:51 h
4th	SWE	Kerstin Granstedt	1:01:30 h
5	SWE	Eivor Steen-Olsson	1:02:54 h
6th	NOR	Ingrid Thoresen	1:03:29 h
7th	SUI	Annakäthi Grieder	1:04:58 h
8th	FIN	Anja Meldo	1:05:06 h

Individual:
Length: 6.6 km
Post: 6

With a lead of 7:45 minutes, the Swede Ulla Lindkvist became the women's world champion.

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Kerstin Granstedt Eivor Steen-Olsson Gunvor Åhling	2:42:58 h
2	FIN	Anja Meldo Pirjo Ruotsalainen Raila Hovi	2:43:19 h
3	NOR	Astrid Hansen Ragnhild Kristensen Ingrid Thoresen	2:54:29 h
4th	SUI	Annakäthi Grieder Irene Köhli Katharina Perch-Nielsen	3:08:06 h
5	GDR	Ulrike Heinemann Ria Meyer Erika Wauer	3:28:14 h
6th	TCH	Ludmila Kumbárová Naděžda Mertová-Linhartová Dobruše Novotná	3:49:58 h

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden	3	-	1	4th
2	Norway	1	-	2	3
3	Finland	-	3	1	4th
4th	Switzerland	-	1	-	1

Web links

• Results of the World Championships 1966 International Orienteering Federation
• Ensimmäinen MM-suunnistus Fiskarsissa TV report from Yleisradio (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Erich Krauß: Orientierungslauf , Sportverlag Berlin 1980, p. 15