{{Short description|Swedish orienteering competitor (1991)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Karolin Ohlsson | image = WOC Sprint Karolin Ohlsson.jpg | image_size = | caption = WOC Sprint Final - Karolin Ohlsson | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1991 }} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | residence = | spouse = | sport = Orienteering | club = {{unbulleted list | Järla Orientering }} | worlds = | nationals = | headercolor = lightsteelblue |show-medals =yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's orienteering }} {{MedalCountry | {{SWE}} }} {{MedalCompetition|World Games}} {{MedalSilver|2022 Birmingham|Middle}} {{MedalCompetition| World Championships}} {{MedalGold| 2018 Latvia | Mixed sprint relay }} {{MedalGold| 2019 Østfold | Relay }} {{MedalSilver| 2018 Latvia | Relay }} {{MedalSilver| 2024 Edinburgh| Knock out sprint }} {{MedalCompetition| European Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 2014 Palmela | Relay}} {{MedalSilver| 2018 Switzerland | Mixed sprint relay}} {{MedalSilver| 2018 Switzerland | Relay}} }}
'''Karolin Ohlsson ''' (born 29 August 1991) is a Swedish orienteering competitor who competes internationally. She became world champion in the sprint relay in 2018.
==Personal life== Ohlsson was born in Stockholm,<ref name=wofo>{{cite web|title=Athlete profile: Karolin Ohlsson |url=http://runners.worldofo.com/karolinohlsson.html |publisher=world-of-o|accessdate=4 August 2018}}</ref> and works as a silversmith in Stockholm.<ref name=svenskorientering>{{cite web |url=http://www.svenskorientering.se/Grenar/Orientering/Landslaget/faktaelitlopare/KarolinOhlsson |title=Karolin Ohlsson |website=svenskorientering.se |language=Swedish |accessdate=13 August 2018 |archive-date=15 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615111025/http://www.svenskorientering.se/Grenar/Orientering/Landslaget/faktaelitlopare/KarolinOhlsson |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=179&artikel=6938023 |title=Karolin Ohlsson – toppidrottare och silversmed |newspaper=Sveriges Radio |language=Swedish |date=25 April 2018 |accessdate=13 August 2018|last1=Skött |first1=Bengt }}</ref>
==Career== Ohlsson won a silver medal in the relay at the 2014 European Orienteering Championships in Portugal with the Swedish team, and placed 12th in the sprint, and 17th in the long distance.<ref name=wofo/> At the 2015 World Orienteering Championships in Inverness, she placed fifth in the mixed sprint relay, and tenth in the sprint final.<ref name=wofo/> In the 2016 European Championships she placed 20th in the sprint and 35th in the long distance, and she placed 13th in the sprint at the 2016 World Orienteering Championships in Strömstad, Sweden.<ref name=wofo/> She competed at the 2017 World Orienteering Championships in Tartu, Estonia, where she placed 11th in the sprint, and 27th in the long distance.
At the 2018 European Orienteering Championships in Switzerland she won a silver medal in the mixed sprint relay, and a silver medal in women's relay. She placed eighth in the sprint and ninth in the long distance.<ref name=wofo/> She competed at the 2018 World Orienteering Championships in Latvia, where she placed fifth the sprint final,<ref name=woc2018-sprint>{{cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final – Women |url=https://woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/4.08/results/Final/Results%20-%20Women.pdf |website=woc2018.lv |accessdate=4 August 2018}}</ref> and won a gold medal in the mixed sprint relay, together with Emil Svensk, Jonas Leandersson and Tove Alexandersson.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Relay |url=https://woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/5.08/results/Results.pdf |website=woc2018.lv |accessdate=5 August 2018}}</ref> She was running the second leg in the women's relay at the 2018 World Championships, where Sweden won the silver medal,<ref name=woc2018-relay-women>{{cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2018 Relay |url=https://woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/9.08/results/Results%20-%20Women.pdf |website=woc2018.lv |accessdate=9 August 2018}}</ref> with Helena Bergman on the first leg and Tove Alexandersson on the final leg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.worldofo.com/2018/08/09/woc-2018-relay-maps-and-results/ |website=news.worldofo.com |title=WOC 2018 Relay: Maps and Results |first=Jan|last= Kocbach |accessdate= 12 August 2018 }}</ref> She placed 21st in the middle course,<ref name=woc2018-middle>{{cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2018 Middle – Women |url=https://woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/7.08/results/Results%20-%20Women.pdf |website=woc2018.lv |accessdate=13 August 2018}}</ref> and seventh in the long distance in the 2018 World Championships.<ref name=woc2018-long>{{cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2018 Long – Women |url=https://woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/11.08/results/Results%20-%20Women.pdf |website=woc2018.lv |accessdate=12 August 2018}}</ref> In 2018 she was on the Järla IF club team which won the Tiomila relay.<ref name=svenskorientering/>
She participated in World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama where she won a silver medal in the Middle Distance and placed 4th in the Individual Sprint.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ohlsson, Karolin}} Category:Swedish female orienteers Category:Swedish foot orienteers Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Stockholm Category:Swedish silversmiths Category:Women jewellers Category:World Games medalists in orienteering Category:World Games silver medalists for Sweden Category:Medalists at the 2022 World Games Category:21st-century Swedish sportswomen