Karin Rabe (born 17 February 1954) 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 ...

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 ...

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. She is four times Relay World Champion as a member of the

winning team in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1989,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966–2006
(Retrieved on December 2, 2007) as well as having silver medals from 1978 and 1987, and a

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from 1979. She obtained silver in the Individual

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in 1987, and bronze in 1981.

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1954 births Living people Swedish female orienteers Swedish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 20th-century Swedish sportswomen {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub