Katarina Borg is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 competitor

Competition

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. She has received two silver medals in the world championships, and finished overall third in the Orienteering World Cup

Orienteering World Cup

The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The first official World Cup was held in 1986, and then every second year up to 2004...

 two times.

World championships

She participated at the 1987 World Orienteering Championships

World Orienteering Championships

The World Orienteering Championships were first held in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2003 . Since 2003, competitions have been held annually....

, where she received a silver medal

Silver medal

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 with the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 team (Arja Hannus

Arja Hannus

Arja Hannus is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She won the 1987 Individual World Orienteering Championships. She is three times Relay World Champion, from 1981, 1989 and 1991, as a member of the Swedish winning teams, and has a silver medal from 1987....

, Marita Skogum

Marita Skogum

Marita Skogum is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She won the 1989 Individual World Orienteering Championships, as well as the 1993 Classic distance. She also obtained silver in the Individual course in 1983, and silver in the Short distance in 1993...

 and Karin Rabe

Karin Rabe

Karin Rabe is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She is four times Relay World Champion as a member of the Swedish winning team in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1989, as well as having silver medals from 1978 and 1987, and a bronze medal from 1979. She obtained silver in the Individual World Championship...

). She received a silver medal

Silver medal

A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....

 in the classic distance at the 1997 World Championships.

World cup

Borg finished third overall at the 1990 Orienteering World Cup

Orienteering World Cup

The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The first official World Cup was held in 1986, and then every second year up to 2004...

, behind Ragnhild Bente Andersen

Ragnhild Bente Andersen

Ragnhild Bente Andersen is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and World champion. She won a gold medal in relay at the 1987 World Orienteering Championships, together with Bratberg, Olsvik and Volden. She received a silver medal in relay in 1991, together with Sandstad, Arnesen and...

 and Ragnhild Bratberg

Ragnhild Bratberg

Ragnhild Bratberg is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and cross country skier.-Orienteering career:...

. She finished overall third also in 1998, behind Hanne Staff

Hanne Staff

Hanne Staff is a Norwegian orienteering athlete who has won three individual World Orienteering Championships medals.She retired from international orienteering at the end of the 2004 season where she became world champion in the middle distance event.Staff ran for the Norwegian orienteering club...

 and Johanna Asklöf

Johanna Asklöf

Johanna Asklöf is a Finnish orienteering competitor and World champion.She received a silver medal in the relay event at the 1993 World Orienteering Championships in West Point, USA, together with Kirsi Tiira, Annika Viilo and Eija Koskivaara...

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