World Orienteering Championships 1980

The 3rd World Ski Orienteering Championships took place from February 26th to March 1st, 1980 in Avesta , Sweden .

Men's

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Pertti Tikka	1:39:22 h
2	SWE	Jan-Erik Thorn	1:40:16 h
3	FIN	Matti Väisänen	1:40:18 h
4th	FIN	Timo Mutikainen	1:42:02 h
5	SWE	Leave Jonsson	1:42:17 h
6th	FIN	Olavi Svanberg	1:42:22 h

Length: 23.9 km
Posts: 9
Participants: 38

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SWE	Let Jonsson Stefan Persson Bo Larsson Jan-Erik Thorn	4:10:12 h
2	FIN	Timo Mutikainen Matti Väisänen Olavi Svanberg Pertti Tikka	4:15:01 h
3	BUL	Lyubomir Stojew Petar Pankow Wasil Shandurkow Ivan Nedkow	4:42:25 h

Length: 64 km in total
Participants: 6 relay teams

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Mirja Puhakka	1:16:28 h
2	FIN	Kaija Silvennoinen	1:17:22 h
3	SWE	Ann Larsson	1:19:28 h
4th	FIN	Sinikka Kukkonen	1: 21.50 h
5	SWE	Susanna Lindgren	1:22:59 h
6th	SWE	Ulla Klingström	1:23:15 h

Length: 15.6 km
Posts: 9
Participants: 22

space	country	Athletes	time
1	FIN	Mirja Puhakka Kaija Silvennoinen Sinikka Kukkonen	2:28:36 h
2	SWE	Ulla Klingström Marianne Bogestedt Ann Larsson	2:33:27 h
3	TCH	Dana Tichackova Anna Gavendova Svaana Novakova	3:00:55 h

Length: 33 km in total
Participants: 5 relays

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Finland Finland	3	2	1	6th
2	Sweden Sweden	1	2	1	4th
3	Bulgaria 1971 Bulgaria	-	-	1	1
	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1