Bertil Nordqvist is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF. A successful ski orienteer combines high physical endurance, strength and excellent technical sk ...

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 ...

and world champion.

Ski orienteering

He competed at the 1996

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance comp ...

in Lillehammer, where he won a gold medal in the ''relay event'', together with Per-Ove Bergqvist, Mikael Lindmark and Björn Lans. He has received one individual silver medal and two bronze medals in the world championships. At the

World Cup in Ski Orienteering The World Cup in Ski Orienteering is a series of ski-orienteering competitions organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first official World Cup was held in 1989, then every second year up to 1999, and then in 2000, 2001, 2003, ...

in 2003 Nordqvist finished overall second, behind winner

Eduard Khrennikov Eduard Alexandrovich Khrennikov (; born 19 May 1973 in Usolye-Sibirskoye) is a Russian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion, and three times winner of the overall World cup. He received a gold medal in the ...

. He finished overall third in 1997 and in 1999.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Swedish male orienteers Swedish ski-orienteers {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub