World Orienteering Championships 1986

The 6th World Ski Orienteering Championships were held from 19th February bis 24. February 1986 in Batak , Bulgaria instead.

After 1977 ( Velingrad ), Bulgaria hosted a ski orienteering world championship for the second time.

Men's

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Claes Berglund	1:35:18 h
2	FIN	Anssi Juutilainen	1:36:41 h
3	FIN	Hannu Koponen	1:36:51 h
4th	FIN	Veli-Matti Pellinen	1:37:10 h
5	SWE	Stefan Larsson	1:37:37 h
6th	NOR	Vidar Benjaminsen	1:38:05 h

Defending champion: Anssi Juutilainen Length: 19.1 km Elevation gain: 485 Posts: 8 Participants: 69 Finland

space	country	Athletes	time
1	NOR	Sigurd Dæhli Lars Lystad Audun Knutsen Vidar Benjaminsen	4:00:58 h
2	BUL	Georgi Hadschimitew Krum Sergiev Lubomir Dejanow Ignat Orlow	4:16:06 h
3	FIN	Hannu Koponen Veli-Matti Pellinen Mikko Kosonen Anssi Juutilainen	4:19:05 h

Defending champion: Stefan Larsson , Ove Boström , Jan-Erik Thorn , Claes Berglund Participants: 13 relays Sweden

space	country	athlete	time
1	NOR	Ragnhild Bratberg	1:13:59 h
2	SWE	Arja Hannus	1:18:02 h
3	FIN	Virpi Juutilainen	1:18:19 h
4th	BUL	Pepa Milusheva	1:19:16 h
5	SWE	Annika Zell	1:22:08 h
6th	BUL	Dimitrenka Schristowa	1:23:27 h

Defending champion: Mirja Puhakka Length: 12.6 km Elevation gain: 275 Posts: 5 Participants: 45 Finland

space	country	Athletes	time
1	NOR	Toril Hallan Ellen Sofie Olsvik Ragnhild Bratberg	3:02:43 h
2	SWE	Ulla Klingström Annika Zell Arja Hannus	3:03:25 h
3	BUL	Marinella Orlowa Dimitrenka Schristowa Pepa Milusheva	?

Defending champions: Marie Gustafsson , Ann Larsson , Lena Isaksson Participants: 10 relays Sweden

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