Karolin Ohlsson
 WOC Sprint Final - Karolin Ohlsson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Orienteering | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Karolin Ohlsson (born 29 August 1991) is a Swedish orienteering competitor who competes internationally. She became world champion in the sprint relay in 2018.
Personal life
[edit]Ohlsson was born in Stockholm,[1] and works as a silversmith in Stockholm.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Ohlsson won a silver medal in the relay at the 2014 European Orienteering Championships in Portugal with the Swedish team, and placed 12th in the sprint, and 17th in the long distance.[1] At the 2015 World Orienteering Championships in Inverness, she placed fifth in the mixed sprint relay, and tenth in the sprint final.[1] In the 2016 European Championships she placed 20th in the sprint and 35th in the long distance, and she placed 13th in the sprint at the 2016 World Orienteering Championships in Strömstad, Sweden.[1] She competed at the 2017 World Orienteering Championships in Tartu, Estonia, where she placed 11th in the sprint, and 27th in the long distance.
At the 2018 European Orienteering Championships in Switzerland she won a silver medal in the mixed sprint relay, and a silver medal in women's relay. She placed eighth in the sprint and ninth in the long distance.[1] She competed at the 2018 World Orienteering Championships in Latvia, where she placed fifth the sprint final,[4] and won a gold medal in the mixed sprint relay, together with Emil Svensk, Jonas Leandersson and Tove Alexandersson.[5] She was running the second leg in the women's relay at the 2018 World Championships, where Sweden won the silver medal,[6] with Helena Bergman on the first leg and Tove Alexandersson on the final leg.[7] She placed 21st in the middle course,[8] and seventh in the long distance in the 2018 World Championships.[9] In 2018 she was on the Järla IF club team which won the Tiomila relay.[2]
She participated in World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama where she won a silver medal in the Middle Distance and placed 4th in the Individual Sprint.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Athlete profile: Karolin Ohlsson". world-of-o. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Karolin Ohlsson". svenskorientering.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ Skött, Bengt (25 April 2018). "Karolin Ohlsson – toppidrottare och silversmed". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final – Women" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Relay" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Relay" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ Kocbach, Jan. "WOC 2018 Relay: Maps and Results". news.worldofo.com. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Middle – Women" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Long – Women" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
External links
[edit]- Karolin Ohlsson at the International Orienteering Federation
- Karolin Ohlsson at the International Orienteering Federation
- Karolin Ohlsson at World of O
