Eva Svensson (born 27 May 1987)
is a Swedish
orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...
and
ski-orienteering
Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing endurance Winter sport, winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines Sport governing body, recognized by the International Orienteering Federation, ...
competitor, and junior world champion in both sports.
Orienteering
She became
Junior World Champion in ''sprint'' in
Dubbo
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The city is located at the intersection of the Newell, Mitchell, and Gol ...
in 2007, and received a bronze medal in 2006.
[Junior World Orienteering Championships]
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on June 29, 2008)
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on June 29, 2008) She received silver medals in ''relay'' in both the 2006 and 2007 junior world championships.
Ski orienteering
Svensson received four individual gold medals and two bronze medals at the
Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007. At the Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in
Salzburg in 2007, she won a gold medal in the long distance, a gold medal in the middle distance, a bronze medal in the sprint, as well as being part of the Swedish winning team in the relay.
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1987 births
Living people
Swedish orienteers
Female orienteers
Foot orienteers
Ski-orienteers
Swedish female cross-country skiers
Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists
21st-century Swedish women
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