Jimmy Birklin

Jimmy Birklin, born on 12 January 1970, is a Swedish orienteering competitor who won the sprint at the 2001 World Orienteering Championships, a title in the shortest and fastest discipline of the sport. He was also part of the Swedish team that won bronze medals in the relay at the world championships in 1995 and again in 1999. The relay is the team event in which each member of a national team covers one leg of a forest course and the combined time decides the medals, so his two bronze medals show a long career at the top of the Swedish squad, alongside his individual world title in the sprint.