Ulla Lindkvist

Ulla Lindkvist, who lived from 30 August 1939 to 6 August 2015, was a Swedish orienteering competitor and the first woman to become an individual world champion in the sport. She won the Individual World Orienteering Championships in 1966 and again in 1968 and finished second in 1970. In 1970 she also became Relay World Champion as part of the Swedish team with Birgitta Larsson and Eivor Steen-Olsson, and she was on Swedish relay teams that took silver medals in 1968 and 1972. Within Sweden she holds the record for the most overall victories at the multi-day O-Ringen event, having won it eight years in a row from 1967 to 1974.