World Orienteering Championships 1977

The 2nd World Ski Orienteering Championships took place from March 25 to 27, 1977 in Velingrad , Bulgaria .

Men's

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Örjan Svahn	2:17:53 h
2	FIN	Pekka Pökälä	2:23:27 h
3	FIN	Jorma Karvonen	2:24:17 h
4th	SWE	Stefan Persson	2:24:21 h
5	FIN	Heikki Hautala	2:24:40 h
6th	SWE	Sven-Olof Bergvall	2:32:47 h
7th	SWE	Elis Åberg	2:33:12 h
8th	FIN	Pertti Tikka	2:40:09 h

Length: 22 km
Participants: 29

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Sven-Olof Bergvall Örjan Svahn Bo Larsson Stefan Persson	5:26:34 h
2	BUL	Lyubomir Stojew Alexi Arisanow Ratscho Christow Ivan Nenow	6:57:55 h
3	TCH	Jan Pachner Jaroslav Kačmarčík Jiří Ticháček Jaromír Górny	7:01:27 h
4th	AUT	Johann Pucher Erich Pucher Norbert Boubela Curt Maier	7:56:12 h
5	GBR	David Marshall Neil Bowman Brian Desmond David Ford	8:10:14 h

A total of 52 km

. Six relays took part. The Finnish relay team was disqualified.

space	country	Athlete	time
1	SWE	Marianne Bogestedt	1:56:02 h
2	SWE	Sonja Johannesson	1:57:50 h
3	FIN	Sinikka Kukkonen	1:57:54 h
4th	FIN	Kaija halons	2:05:17 h
5	FIN	Aila Flöjt	2:05:40 h
6th	SWE	Ingrid Wiklander	2:16:26 h
7th	AUT	Weltraud Köpl	2:16:28 h
8th	SWE	Susanne Lindgren	2:16:30 h

Length: 13 km
Participants: 18

space	country	Athletes	time
1	FIN	Kaija Halonen Aila Flöjt Sinikka Kukkonen	3:16:54 h
2	SWE	Marianne Bogestedt Sonja Johansson Susanna Lindgren	3:25:51 h
3	TCH	Dana Ticháčková Renata Vlachová Anna Handzlova	3:41:55 h
4th	BUL	Rumjana Genkowska Krassimira Marinowa Senicha Schukrijewa	4:15:09 h
5	GBR	Patricia Murphy Frances Murray Isobel Inglis	5:19:24 h

A total of 25.2 km

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden Sweden	3	2	-	5
2	Finland Finland	1	1	2	4th
3	Bulgaria 1971 Bulgaria	-	1	-	1
4th	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	-	-	2	2