Orienteering World Championships 1968

The 2nd World Orienteering Championships took place on September 28 and 29, 1968 in the area around Linköping , Sweden .

The IOF awarded the World Championships to Sweden in 1965. The most important organizing clubs were IFK Linköping and Linköpings OK .

Participating Nations

Athletes from 13 countries took part in the 2nd World Orienteering Championships.

Belgium  BR Germany  Bulgaria  Denmark  German Democratic Republic

Finland  Norway  Austria  Sweden

Switzerland  Czechoslovakia  Hungary  United Kingdom

Men's

The two men's competitions were firmly in Swedish hands. In the individual, Karl Johansson won the gold medal ahead of his compatriot Sture Björk . In the relay competition, together with Sten-Olov Carlström and Göran Öhlund, they won the relay with only a narrow lead over the Finnish relay.

singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Karl Johansson	1:48:19 h
2	SWE	Stubborn Bjork	1:49:38 h
3	NOR	Åge Hadler	1:50:13 h
4th	FIN	Juhani Salmenkylä	1:51:18 h
5	NOR	Ola Skarholt	1:51:48 h
6th	SWE	Sten-Olof Carlström	1:53:37 h
7th	NOR	Jostein Nilsen	1:54:16 h
8th	NOR	Stig mountains	1:54:32 h

Individual:
Defending champion: Åge Hadler Location: Söderö Norra (map) Length: 14.7 km Post: 18

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Karl Johansson Sture Björk Sten-Olov Carlström Göran Öhlund	4:25:19 h
2	FIN	Rolf Koskinen Veijo Tahvanainen Juhani Salmenkylä Markku Salminen	4:25:28 h
3	NOR	Per Fosser Ola Skarholt Stig Berge Åge Hadler	4:42:31 h
4th	SUI	Dieter Hulliger Karl John Max Jüni Alex Schwager	5:23:56 h
5	THE	Jørgen Nielsen Leif Nørgaard Flemming Nørgaard Keld Olsen	5:48:23 h
6th	GDR	Helmut Conrad Dieter Konrad Tassilo Schmalfeld Hans-Dieter Baumgart	5:53:11 h
7th	TCH	Ludovit Smelik Antonín Urbanec Oldřich Vlach Svatoslav Galík	5:59:00 h
8th	HUN	Andras Örsi György Bozan Tamas Balogh Attila Horvath	5:59:17 h

Season:
Defending champions: Bertil Norman , Karl Johansson , Anders Morelius , Göran Öhlund Location: Söderö Norra (map)

Ladies

singles

Platza	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Ulla Lindkvist	1:04:55 h
2	NOR	Ingrid Hadler	1:10:35 h
3	SWE	Kerstin Granstedt	1:11:27 h
4th	FIN	Pirjo Seppä	1:15:48 h
5	FIN	Raila Kerkelä	1:16:57 h
6th	THE	Vibeke Bøgevik	1:22:47 h
7th	TCH	Jitenka Sevcikova	1:23:33 h
8th	SWE	Brigitta Larsson	1:25:02 h

Individual:
Defending champion: Ulla Lindkvist Location: Söderö Norra (map) Length: 7.8 km Post: 10

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	NOR	Astrid Rødmyr Astrid Hensen Ingrid Hadler-Thoresen	3:17:53 h
2	SWE	Gun-Britt Nyberg Kerstin Granstedt Ulla Lindkvist	3:18:07 h
3	FIN	Pirjo Seppä Tuula Hovi Raila Kerkelä	3:42:15 h
4th	THE	Mona Hebo Annette Axelsen Vibeke Bøgevik	4:02:06 h
5	SUI	Annekäthe Grieder Helen Thommen Ruth Galliker	4:02:07 h
6th	TCH	Jana Graubnerová Jitřenka Ševčíková Naděžda Mertová-Linhartová	4:08:22 h
7th	HUN	Barbara Cser Maria Danovszky Sarolta Monspart	4:37:07 h
8th	GBR	Susan Bone Carol McNeil Patricia Murphy	4:57:51 h

Season:
Defending champions: Kerstin Granstedt , Eivor Steen-Olsson , Gunvor Åhling Location: Söderö Norra (map)

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden	3	3	1	7th
2	Norway	1	1	2	4th
3	Finland	-	1	1	2

philately

On September 5, 1968, on the occasion of the World Championships, the Swedish Post issued two stamps worth 0.40 and 2.80 Swedish kronor (catalog number 616 and 617).

Web links

• Results International Orienteering Federation
• Home Page of the 2nd World Orienteering Championships 1968 Page about the 1968 World Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Söderö Norra men's singles . ifklinkos.se. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Söderö Norra . ifklinkos.se. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
3. ^ Söderö Norra (women) . ifklinkos.se. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
4. ↑ Orienteering philately Center for Orienteering History (accessed August 1, 2014)