Risto Nuuros (born 26 December 1950) is a
Finnish 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 ...
competitor
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, individual silver medalist at the 1978
World Orienteering Championships
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in
Kongsberg
Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production and fo ...
.
He received silver medals in the ''
relay
A relay
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An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off
A relay is an electrically operated switc ...
event'' in 1974
and 1979, and a
bronze medal
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in 1978.
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See also
* Finnish orienteers
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
* List of orienteers
This is a list of all orienteering competitors found in Wikipedia and notable within the orienteering sport.
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* Alida Abola, Soviet Union
* Christian Aebersold, Switzerland
* Gunborg Ahling, Sweden
* Katarina Allberg, Sweden
* Johanna ...
* List of orienteering events
This is a list of all orienteers events found in Wikipedia and which are notable within the orienteering sport.
Foot Orienteering Championships World Championships
* World Orienteering Championships
* Junior World Orienteering Championships
* ...
References
1950 births
Living people
Finnish male orienteers
Finnish foot orienteers
World Orienteering Championships medalists
20th-century Finnish sportsmen
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