Nicholas Mulder – South African coach and athlete
Posted on | July 15, 2012 | Category: Arena
Nicholas Mulder came directly from working as a team leader at JWOC in Slovakia to competing in WOC in Lausanne. He enjoyed a good experience in the terrain both at the Sprint and at the Long distance qualification.
“Tired? Well to be leader at JWOC was maybe not the best preparation for taking part in WOC, but it was nice to be there”, he says.
In Kosice he had a set of keen young South Africans, and Mulder was taking care and doing his best to ensure that they had a good time. Before he left JWOC he also took part in the banquet.
“I travelled to Switzerland by plane on Saturday morning and just reached the Sprint site in time”, he says.
Sprint qualification a boost for everyone
The Sprint was a very good day for the South Africans. For the first time ever, a South African qualified for an A-final in WOC. Michael Crone did it, and in the Final he finished 43rd. “His success in qualifying is boosting both us others that are here and those at home in South Africa”, Nicholas says.
Growing sport
At home they are also good times, with schools leagues under way and more youngsters doing and practising orienteering. For Nicholas – he didn’t run the Sprint – it was also a good time on the Long qualification. “The terrain was much nicer and more open than it had been on the training areas. Already on the way to the first control I recognised it and liked it”, he says. Before he went to JWOC he spent some days in Switzerland and attended a training camp there. The 34-year-old athlete didn’t get to the A-final, but he had a good race.
Nicholas’s first ever WOC was the last time WOC was in Switzerland. Now, this is his ninth championship as a senior. As a junior he has taken part in three world championships as an athlete.
Nicholas Mulder is having an orienteering summer with training, leadership and racing
Photo: Erik Borg
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