Annichen Kringstad
Annichen Kringstad ( born July 15, 1960 in Oslo ) is a former Swedish orienteer.
Kringstad is next to Simone Niggli -Luder considered the best orienteer ever. Kringstad won both the individual races and the relay at the World Championships in 1981, 1983 and 1985. Their first of four World Championships, she graduated in 1979 in Tampere, Finland and came up to ninth in the individual race. In Thun, Switzerland she finally succeeded in 1981, the first double triumph: Single she left the Norwegian Brit Volden over three minutes behind in the relay with Arja Hannu, Barbro Lönnkvist and Karin Rabe put the Swedes with a lead of over 15 minutes before the Season by Finland. Similarly, dominant ran the World Championships in 1983 in the Hungarian Zalaegerszeg: Kringstad had this time in a single race lead of over seven minutes on their land Marita Skogum. In the Relay competition, Karin Rabe, Marita Skogum, Kerstin Månsson and Kringstad had a seven minute lead over Czechoslovakia. 1985 found for the first time with Australia World Orienteering Championships held outside of Europe. Kringstad won for the third time in a row, both the individual competition as well as the Season decision. After the World Cup, they retired with 25 years back from the top-level sport.
Between 1978 and 1985 Kringstad won 14 Swedish championships: four in the night - OL, three on the long- distance, two on the ultra-long distance and five in the relay.
In addition, she was honored in 1981 with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal - and Radiosportens Jerringpris and 1981 and 1985 awarded the orienteer of the year in Sweden.
Kringstad ran for the Swedish orienteering clubs Saffle OK, OK ravines and Stora Tuna IK. With Stora Tuna IK she won in 1982, 1984 and 1985, the Venlojen viesti that Tiomila she won in 1980 and 1981 with the OK ravines and 1982 and 1984 with Stora Tuna.