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10/07/2013 || World Trail Orienteering Championships: Kostova and Turto lead after Day 1 ||News||
Jana Kostova, Czech Republic and Jari Turto, Finland are the leaders in the Paralympic and Open classes respectively after the first day of competition in Vuokatti, Finland.
10/07/2013 || Crocker records best ever American finish at World Orienteering Championships ||Arena||
Alison Crocker, a University of Toledo-based astrophysicist continues her strong performance at the World Orienteering Championships. Today she recorded an 18th place finish in the women’s long race. The best finish ever for any American at any foot World Orienteering Championship.
09/07/2013 || Gueorgiou – looking forward to Middle distance ||Arena||
Thierry Gueorgiou pushed hard from the start and got his second gold in Long distance, but didn’t like the long race so much. There is a distance he looks forward to much more. The first forest final was mostly in pine forest with good visibility and not so many details. There was a lot […]
09/07/2013 || Simone – ‘woke up in great shape’ ||Arena||
Simone Niggli has been a bit unsure about making both the sprint and the Long distance at WOC because of the tight schedule. “When I woke up in the morning before the Long distance I felt very well”, she says. The evening before, she won the sprint with a great race in the centre of […]
09/07/2013 || What a come-back! ||Arena||
It was six years ago that Mårten Boström last time took part in a World Championships. What a come-back it was at the baseball stadium in the little Finnish town of Sotkamo. On his home page it is written that his sports career as an orienteer started at the age of four. Now he is […]
09/07/2013 || Sickness didn’t hamper Annika ||Arena||
Just in the last few days before WOC Annika Billstam became sick, but she ran an incredible race on the sprint in Sotkamo. It was one medal colour better than last year. She was only 8.1 seconds after winner Simone Niggli. Influenza had affected her voice a bit, yet she is OK again, but it […]
09/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Long distance final: another gold for Niggli and Gueorgiou ||News||
Simone Niggli won World Championships gold medal number 22 in today’s Long distance final, running 13.4 km in 1:20:02 to win by 1 second under 3 minutes. Thierry Gueorgiou, France was a clear winner of the men’s race, his sublime technique and fitness earning him victory by 1 minute 18 seconds over home favourite Jani Lakanen.
08/07/2013 || Niggli – overcame all challenges ||Arena||
For the 21st time, Simone “Gold” Niggli achieved the best position possible in the Sprint final. She had no serious problem with all the new challenges. The little town of Sotkamo was ‘rebuilt’ on the sprint day. 57 new fences were built to make it more challenging to sort out the routes between the controls, […]
08/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Sprint final: 21st gold for Simone Niggli, 1st for Boström ||News||
The Sprint finals with the start and finish in a packed baseball stadium in Sotkamo, Finland this evening were won by Simone Niggli, Switzerland and Mårten Boström from the home country. Niggli’s win was by 8.1 seconds whilst Boström’s was even more convincing, 17.1 seconds.
08/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, men’s sprint qualification: defending champion safely through ||News||
Defending sprint world champion Matthias Kyburz, Switzerland qualified easily for this evening’s final, finishing 2 seconds down on the Swedish sprint star Jerker Lysell in his heat. The other heat winners were Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Denmark and Öystein Kvaal Österbö, Norway, who both had clear victories.
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