Marita Skogum

Marita Skogum is a Swedish orienteering competitor who won the individual title at the 1989 World Orienteering Championships and the classic distance at the 1993 championships. She also took silver in the individual course in 1983 and in the short distance in 1993. As a member of the winning Swedish relay teams she became relay world champion four times, in 1983, 1989, 1991 and 1993, and she holds a relay silver medal from 1987. After her competitive career she became a coach, leading the Swedish women's national team from 2001 and the men's national team from 2006, and she was nominated for Swedish Trainer of the Year in 2004.