Chris Terkelsen
Chris Risbjerg Terkelsen ( born February 16, 1972) is a former Danish orienteer.
After good finishes and winning a silver medal at the long distance at the Junior World Championships in Berlin in 1991 and 1992 in Jyväskylä Terkelsen was nominated for the Danish national team. In 1993 he took part in West Point in his first World Cup and was inter alia tenth in the sprint. The most successful period had Terklsen 1997 and 1998. Grimstad, Norway In 1997 he was together with Torben Skovlyst, Carsten Jørgensen and Allan Mogensen in the Danish season champion. In 1998 he won the World Cup after individual victories in the Lake District in Krakow and in the Estonian Otepaeae. In 1997 and 1998 he was also third in the final standings in each of the Park World Tour. Together with the Norwegian club Halden SK he also won in two years, the Jukola. A third victory came in 2000. After these successes he started only in 2003 again at international championships. He succeeded approach to run again with the world leaders in the connection, such as with a fifth place in the home Euro 2004 on the middle distance. In 2005 he won the Springcup. At the World Championships in 2005 in Aichi, Japan, he was on the middle distance runner-up behind Thierry Gueorgiou from France. In 2006, he ran his last international championship season, but peaked at its four single starts at the European and World Championships no top ten finishes more.
Terkelsen is 1,90 m tall and weighed to competition times 78-79 kg. He started during his career for the clubs Farum Farum OK or / Tisvilde, OK Gorm, IFK Gothenburg, Halden SK and IFK Lidingö. He is co-founder and co-owner of the company TracTrac, which produces software for live tracking via GPS.