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Eivor Steen-Olsson

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Eivor Steen-Olsson
Medal record
Women's orienteering
Representing  Sweden
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1966 Fiskars Relay
Gold medal – first place 1970 Friedrichroda Relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1964 Le Brassus Relay

Eivor Steen-Olsson (born 5 January 1937) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She is two times Relay World Champion as a member of the Swedish winning team in 1966 and 1970.[1]

She won a gold medal in the first official relay at the European Orienteering Championships, in Le Brassus in 1964, together with Ann-Marie Wallsten and Ulla Lindkvist.

She competed at the very first World Orienteering Championships, in Fiskars in 1966, where she won a gold medal in the relay together with Kerstin Granstedt and Gunborg Åhling, and placed fifth in the individual contest.[2]

At the 1970 World Orienteering Championships in Friedrichroda she won a gold medal in the relay for Sweden again, this time with Birgitta Larsson and Ulla Lindkvist.[3]

References

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  1. ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on December 3, 2007)
  2. ^ "WOC 1966 FIN – Fiskars, Finland, 1–2 October 1966". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  3. ^ "WOC 1970 DDR – Friedrichroda, Democratic Republic of Germany, 27–29 September". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2009.