Sigurd Dæhli (born 1953) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 competitor

Competition

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. He became Relay World Champion

World Orienteering Championships

The World Orienteering Championships were first held in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2003 . Since 2003, competitions have been held annually....

 in 1981, by participating on the Norwegian winning team in Thun

Thun

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. He obtained bronze in the 1983 Individual World Orienteering Championships in Zalaegerszeg

Zalaegerszeg

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, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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Orienteering career

Dæhlie made his debut in senior Norwegian Championships in 1973, and since then had more than 100 starts in the national championships. He was winner of the first official Norwegian Night Orienteering Championship in 1979, and has participated on the winning relay team seven times in the national championships. He won gold medal in the Nordic Championships in Finland in 1977, and has two relay gold medals in the Nordic Championships (from 1980 and 1982).

He has won WMOC (World Master Orienteering Championships) several times.

Ski orienteering

Dæhlie also competed in ski orienteering, obtaining an individual bronze medal in the 1982 World Championships in Austria, and a relay gold medal in the 1986 World Championships in Bulgaria.