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

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. She competed at the 2012

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2 ...

. 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 ( pl, Igrzyska Światowe 2017), commonly known as Wrocław 2017 (german: Breslau 2017; sli, Brassel 2017), was the tenth World Games, a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events withi ...

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, Poland.

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* 1988 births Living people Swedish orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games bronze medalists Competitors at the 2017 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering Sportspeople from Gothenburg {{Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub