Lina Persson

Lina Persson, born on 3 February 1982, is a Swedish orienteering competitor and European champion. She won a gold medal in the relay at the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils, running with Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson for Sweden. At the same championships she qualified for the finals and finished 10th in the long distance and 12th in the middle distance. The relay, in which each member of a three person national team runs one leg of a forest course, is the event in which she won her continental title, and her result places her among the Swedish women who have taken European level medals in foot orienteering.