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| Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1959-09-24) 24 September 1959 (age 65) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Orienteering | |||||||||||||||||
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Kari Sallinen (born September 24, 1959) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He was the first Finn who won the Individual World Orienteering Championships. The competition was held in the year 1985 in Bendigo, Australia. He was also part of the Finnish team that obtained bronze in the 1981 Relay World Championship in Thun, Switzerland. He won the Jukola relay in 1987.
His mother is Raili Sallinen.
See also
References
- World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on January 8, 2007)
- "World Orienteering Championships 1985". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- "World Orienteering Championships 1981". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- "Jukola Relay winners 1949-". Jukola.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
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