Orienteering World Championships 1991

The 14th World Orienteering Championships were held from 20th August bis 25. August 1991 in the area around Marienbad (Marianske Lazne) in Czechoslovakia instead.

With the short distance race, a new discipline was introduced. The number of medal decisions thus increases from four to six.

Men's

space	country	athlete	time
1	TCH	Petr Kozák	29:20 min
2	SWE	Kent Olsson	29:57 min
3	SWE	Martin Johansson	30:17 min
4th	SUI	Christian Aebersold	30:22 min
5	SWE	Jörgen Mårtensson	30:33 min
6th	SUI	Urs Flühmann	30:34 min
7th	SWE	Niklas Löwegren	31:00 min
8th	FIN	Mika Kuisma	31:12 min

Qualification: August 21, 1991
Location: Mariánské Lázně

Final: August 21, 1991
Location: Karlovy Vary -Linhart
Length: 5.8 km Gradient
: 200 m
Post: 10

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Jörgen Mårtensson	1:49:25 h
2	SWE	Kent Olsson	1:53:37 h
3	URS	Sixten Sild	1:53:48 h
4th	URS	Vladimir Alexeyev	1:54:09 h
5	SWE	Håkan Eriksson	1:54:32 h
6th	SUI	Christian Aebersold	1:54:45 h
7th	NOR	Håvard Tveite	1:55:10 h
8th	TCH	Josef Hubáček	1:56:09 h

Final: 23 August 1991
Location: Mariánské Lázně -Rabštejn
Length: 17.47 km Gradient
: 645 m
Post: 25

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SUI	Thomas Bührer Alain Berger Urs Flühmann Christian Aebersold	4:42:38 h
2	NOR	Petter Thoresen Bjørnar Valstad Rolf Vestre Håvard Tveite	4:43:00 h
3	FIN	Reijo Mattinen Ari Anjala Mika Kuisma Keijo Parkkinen	4:44:19 h
4th	SWE	Martin Johansson Kent Olsson Jörgen Mårtensson Håkan Eriksson	4:46:14 h
5	URS	Sixten Sild Aigars Leiboms Walerian Lukjanow Vladimir Alexejew	4:48:03 h
6th	TCH	Tomáš Prokeš Josef Hubáček Jozef Pollák Jiří Hlaváč	4:56:19 h
7th	GBR	Richard Jones Stephen Palmer Martin Bagness Andy Kitchin	5:01:43 h
8th	HUN	Ferenc Viniczai Gábor Pavlovics Pál Horváth Zoltán Lantos

Date: August 25, 1991
Location: Karlovy Vary -Rajec
Length: 11.3 to 11.5 km per lap Gradient
: 430 to 450 m
Post: 19

space	country	Athlete	time
1	TCH	Jana Cieslarová	32:09 min
2	TCH	Ada Kuchařová	32:29 min
3	SWE	Marita Skogum	32:41 min
4th	SWE	Christina Blomqvist	32:59 min
5	HUN	Katalin Oláh	33:10 min
6th	TCH	Marcela Kubátková	33:18 min
7th	TCH	Jana Galíková	33:24 min
8th	FIN	Marja-Liisa Portin	33:27 min

Qualification: August 21, 1991
Location: Mariánské Lázně

Final: August 21, 1991
Location: Karlovy Vary -Linhart
Length: 5.0 km Gradient
: 170 m
Post: 9th

space	country	Athlete	time
1	HUN	Katalin Oláh	1:19:52 h
2	SWE	Christina Blomqvist	1:21:04 h
3	TCH	Jana Galíková	1:21:18 h
4th	TCH	Jana Cieslarová	1:21:54 h
5	SWE	Marita Skogum	1:22:15 h
6th	NOR	Ragnhild Bratberg	1:23:56 h
7th	NOR	Ragnhild Bente Andersen	1:24:11 h
8th	SWE	Katarina Borg	1:27:05 h

Final: August 23, 1991
Location: Mariánské Lázně -Rabštejn
Length: 10.52 km Gradient
: 420 m
Post: 16

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Arja Hannus Christina Blomqvist Marlena Jansson Marita Skogum	3:38:27 h
2	NOR	Hanne Sandstad Heidi Arnesen Ragnhild Bratberg Ragnhild Bente Andersen	3:40:20 h
3	TCH	Marcela Kubátková Jana Galíková Ada Kuchařová Jana Cieslarová	3:43:29 h
4th	HUN	Andrea Horvath Reka Toth Ildiko Kovacs Katalin Oláh	3:51:15 h
5	FIN	Mari Lukkarinen Kirsi Tiira Eija Koskivaara Marja-Liisa Portin	3:59:47 h
6th	SUI	Ursula Oehy Sabrina Fesseler Vroni King Brigitte Wolf	4:09:30 h
7th	GER	Kerstin Hellmann Heidrun Finke Frauke Schmitt Kerstin Stratz	4:11:34 h
8th	GBR	Claire Bolland Jenny James Jean Ramsden Yvette Hague	4:11:46 h

Date: August 25, 1981
Location: Karlovy Vary -Rajec
Length: 7.2 to 7.4 km per lap Gradient
: 270 m
Post: 14

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden Sweden	2	3	2	7th
2	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	2	1	2	5
3	Switzerland Switzerland	1	-	-	1
3	Hungary Hungary	1	-	-	1
5	Norway Norway	-	2	-	2
6th	Soviet Union Soviet Union	-	-	1	1
6th	Finland Finland	-	-	1	1