Kari Sallinen
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NationalityFinnish
Born24 September 1959
SportOrienteering
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| Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1959 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Orienteering | |||||||||||||||||
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Kari Sallinen (born September 24, 1959) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He was the first Finn who won the Individual World Orienteering Championships. The competition was held in the year 1985 in Bendigo, Australia.[1][2] He was also part of the Finnish team that obtained bronze in the 1981 Relay World Championship in Thun, Switzerland.[3] He won the Jukola relay in 1987.[4]
His mother is Raili Sallinen.
