Hans Melin

Hans Melin is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He received a bronze medal in the relay event at the 1987 World Orienteering Championships in Gerardmer, running in the Swedish team together with Kent Olsson, Jörgen Mårtensson and Lars Lönnkvist. The relay is the team event of the sport, in which each member of a national quartet covers one leg of a forest course and the combined result decides the medals, so his bronze is a shared result for Sweden. That 1987 relay medal is the result for which he is recorded, and it places him among the Swedish men of the 1980s, a decade in which Sweden was one of the strongest orienteering nations.