Kari Sallinen

{{short description|Finnish orienteering competitor (born 1959)}}

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{{MedalGold | 1985 Bendigo | Individual }}

{{MedalBronze| 1981 Thun | Relay }}

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Kari Sallinen (born September 24, 1959) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He was the first Finn who won the Individual World Orienteering Championships. The competition was held in the year 1985 in Bendigo, Australia.[http://old.orientering.no/resultater/vmres.asp World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823154017/http://old.orientering.no/resultater/vmres.asp |date=2011-08-23 }} (Retrieved on January 8, 2007){{cite web | url=http://orienteering.org/events/?event_id=26 | title=World Orienteering Championships 1985 |publisher=International Orienteering Federation |accessdate=16 July 2017}} He was also part of the Finnish team that obtained bronze in the 1981 Relay World Championship in Thun, Switzerland.{{cite web | url=http://orienteering.org/events/?event_id=24 | title=World Orienteering Championships 1981 |publisher=International Orienteering Federation |accessdate=16 July 2017}} He won the Jukola relay in 1987.{{cite web |title=Jukola Relay winners 1949- |url=https://jukola.com/jukolan-historia/tilastot/jukolan-viestin-voittajat-1949/ |publisher=Jukola.com |access-date=22 August 2024}}

His mother is Raili Sallinen.