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11/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, men’s Middle qualification: two Swiss heat winners ||News||
Swiss stars Matthias Kyburz and Daniel Hubmann both won their heats today, with Kalvis Mihailovs from Latvia winning the third. Twenty-four nations have runners in the final, and seven of these have three finalists – Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
11/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Middle qualification: 22 nations in women’s final ||News||
Twenty-two nations will be represented in the women’s final tomorrow afternoon, including Japan with a runner in a final for the first time this year.
11/07/2013 || Bulletin 1 for 2015 World Championships now published ||News||
Bulletin 1 for the 2015 World Orienteering Championships, to be held from 1st to 8th August 2015 in Scotland, has been published and can be downloaded from the event page.
11/07/2013 || IOF Press Conference today ||News||
The International Orienteering Federation will announce the appointment of the organisers for the World Masters Orienteering Championships and Junior World Orienteering Championships in 2016 on 11 July 2013 at 16:00 at Sokos Hotel Vuokatti, Sotkamo, Finland. In addition, two further announcements will be made.
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.
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 || 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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