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12/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Strong Swedes ||News||
Gustav Bergman waved to the public when he passed the first spectator control on the last leg in the Junior World Championships relay. He was then running side by side with Martin Hubmann, Switzerland. With a lot of confidence Gustav brought the Swedish team to a victory and got his second gold during the Junior […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: On the way to the top ||News||
Tugba Daye from Turkey trains orienteering several times a week, and says with a smile that she has gold in her mind. -I want to win JWOC 2011, she declares. Tugba, who has two years left in junior class, finished 44th on the long distance in Italy. That is the best achievement of a Turkish […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: All Czechs in the A final ||News||
Czech Republic is the only nation with all runners taking part in the Junior World Championships middle distance A final today. They hope for a medal – at least one. -Two medals? Oh, no. We will be satisfied with one medal, smiles Libor Zridkavesely. The man with the difficult name has been head coach for […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Martin wants to run relays with his brother ||News||
Martin Hubmann isn’t sure whether he can ever beat his older brother Daniel, but he hopes they can run relays together in the national team. -I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to be as good as him, but one thing I’d like would be to run in a same relay team with him, Martin […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Photos from middle qualification ||News||
John Williams, USA, in middle qualification. Photo: Erik Borg Greta Knarston from New Zealand had a good long distance race and finished 19th. In the middle distance she didn’t make it to the A final. Nicola Scalet is one of the three Italians in the A final today. Hang U Leung from Hong Kong reading […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Another victory for the Swedes ||News||
The young Swede Tove Alexandersson has for years been amongst the very best in her age group. Now is she also the best junior in the world on the middle distance. -Why I am doing well? Maybe because I started so early with orienteering. My parents do the sport and when I was seven-eight years […]
10/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Olli-Markus did it again ||News||
Olli-Markus Taivainen has had a tremendous year. Earlier this year he got four gold medals at the Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships, and after that, on the middle distance, a gold at the World Ski Orienteering Championships. Today he got his sixth gold of the year, on the Junior World Orienteering Championships middle distance in […]
08/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Young winner with a lot of experience ||News||
Growing up in an orienteering family, Ida Bobach has both participated in orienteering races and organised them for other people from early on. Yesterday she won the long distance race at the Junior World Championships. – We sent her and her brothers early out in the forest to place control flags, smiles the mother Dorthe […]
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