Wenche Jacobsen
{{Short description|Norwegian orienteer (born 1954)}}
{{Use dmy dates |date=December 2023}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's orienteering }}
{{MedalCountry| {{NOR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 1978 Kongsberg | Individual }}
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Wenche Jacobsen (born 28 July 1954) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor who competed internationally. Her achievements included winning a bronze medal at the world championships in 1978, and she was part of the Norwegian relay team at the world championships in 1976 and 1978, both times placing fourth.
Career
=International=
Jacobsen competed at the 1976 World Orienteering Championships in Aviemore, where she placed sixth in the individual course. She was also part of the Norwegian relay team, which placed fourth.{{cite web | url=http://orienteering.org/events/?event_id=21 | title=World Orienteering Championships 1976 |publisher=International Orienteering Federation |accessdate=14 July 2017}} She won a bronze medal in the individual event at the 1978 World Orienteering Championships in Kongsberg, behind Anne Berit Eid and Liisa Veijalainen.{{cite web | url=http://orienteering.org/events/?event_id=22 | title=World Orienteering Championships 1978 |publisher=International Orienteering Federation |accessdate=14 July 2017}} She was also part of the relay team at the 1978 championships, which placed fourth, two seconds behind the Swiss bronze medalists.
=National championships=
Jacobsen became Norwegian champion in orienteering in 1977, in the individual event (classical distance),{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=orientering – Norgesmestere |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor-first=Erik |editor-last=Bolstad |first= |last= |publisher= |location= |url=https://snl.no/orientering_-_Norgesmestere |language=Norwegian|accessdate=10 February 2019}} and was awarded the King's Cup. In 1978 she was Norwegian orienteering champion in the ultra long distance.
Personal life
Jacobsen lived together with cross-country skier Ivar Formo for fifteen years.{{cite web |url=https://www.nrk.no/sport/tok-farvel-med-ivar-formo-1.1587829|title=Tok farvel med Ivar Formo|website=nrk.no|date=5 January 2007|language=no|accessdate=10 February 2019}}
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Category:Norwegian female orienteers
Category:Norwegian foot orienteers
Category:World Orienteering Championships medalists
Category:20th-century Norwegian sportswomen
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