Lina Strand (born 23 December 1988) is a Swedish orienteering competitor, born in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

. She won a bronze medal in the relay at the 2012

European Orienteering Championships The European Orienteering Championships were first held in 1962. They have been held biennially since 2000. From 2020, the European Orienteering Championships will be held annually, with sprint events and forest events in alternate years. Format ...

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabit ...

. She competed at the 2012

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

. In the middle distance she qualified for the final, where she placed 11th. To date, her greatest achievements at the

have been coming second in the Long Distance in 2019, first in the Sprint Relay in 2017 and third in the Mixed Sprint Relay in 2016. Strand ranked third at the

2017 World Games The 2017 World Games (), also known as Wrocław 2017, was the tenth edition of the World Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. The World Games were organized by the Wrocław Organizing Committee. Wrocław was selected as the h ...

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, Poland.

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* 1988 births Living people Swedish female orienteers Swedish foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games bronze medalists for Sweden World Games medalists in orienteering Sportspeople from Gothenburg Medalists at the 2017 World Games 21st-century Swedish sportswomen {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub