Rolf Pettersson (born 11 December 1944) is a Swedish

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

. He is a four-time Relay World Champion as a member of the winning Swedish team in 1972, 1974, 1976 and 1979,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on December 2, 2007) and was runner-up in 1978. He won silver in the Individual World Championship in 1976.

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1944 births Living people Swedish male orienteers Swedish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub