“This helps the sport to be better known”
Posted on | April 12, 2014 | Category: Arena
João Figueiredo is happy to have all the best orienteers in the world on home ground, and that’s not only for getting tough competition.
João has the Sprint as his main distance, and the fast Portuguese was number eight in one of the three heats and secured a safe place in the A-final. “I had a good qualification, but made 20 seconds of mistakes”, he tells. Last year the 22-year-old athlete from the south of Portugal was 34th in the WOC sprint. “My goal is to get a better place in the final this time”.
On Sunday the final is in Pamela and many more people will get to know about orienteering. “It’s good that Portuguese people can see what orienteering is and be a bit more familiar with this sport”, he says.
Ahead of the Championships, the organisers have done some superb work and have really made orienteering visible. Eight pages in the big sports magazine Record is really impressive and the result of hard and successful work.
Text and photos: Erik Borg
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