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12/07/2007 || Success for world champions’ daughter ||News||
Jenny Lönnkvist’s parents are both world champions in relay, and they have taught their daughter how to find the fastest way through the forest. Today Jenny became junior world champion at middle distance. Barbro and Lars Lönnkvist were for years among the best in the world and they have given their daughter Jenny a lot […]
12/07/2007 || A proud president ||News||
Bob Mouatt is a proud and happy President of Orienteering Australia. The best juniors in the world are having a great time in Australia and the Aussies are doing a great job and also getting good results. “It’s good to have the championships here. It strengthens the sport in Australia and I am grateful for […]
12/07/2007 || Photos from the middle distance in Dubbo, Australia ||News||
It has been a great Junior World Orienteering Championships in Dubbo, Australia. The organiser has offered the best juniors in the world well-organised competitions with good maps, good arenas and a wonderful atmosphere. Here are some photos from the middle distance race. The Swede Petter Eriksson got silver. Martin Hubmann from Switzerland got some good […]
11/07/2007 || Invitation to the Trail-O Technical Clinic ||News||
Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday 25 August 2007 in association with the World Trail Orienteering Championships 2007. The IOF Trail Orienteering Commission is pleased to invite participants to a Technical Clinic during and immediately following the World Championships in Trail Orienteering WTOC 2007, these being held in conjunction with WOC 2007. This Technical Clinic is open […]
11/07/2007 || “It’s all about experience” ||News||
There is rock everywhere in the JWOC areas. How is it possible to map it? The chief mapper Eric Andrews says it’s all about experience. The Australian has a lot of experience, but he had in fact retired a long time before this year’s Junior World Orienteering Championships. “I retired in 2003, but I was […]
11/07/2007 || “Very inspiring to be on home ground” ||News||
Vanessa Round and Simon Uppill have looked forward for a long time to competing in JWOC on home ground. The two Aussies have also done very well. In the long distance they were both among the six best. The two 19-year-old juniors have both taken part in the two previous JWOCs and both have improved […]
11/07/2007 || The orienteering world is getting bigger ||News||
Runners from 23 nations qualified for the final of the middle distance at JWOC in Australia. New nations are making progress. The big orienteering nations have again demonstrated their strength, of course, but the most interesting thing in today’s qualification in the middle distance was that so many nations managed to get runners among the […]
10/07/2007 || Athletes’ Commission in MTB orienteering established ||News||
An Athletes’ Commission in Mountain Bike Orienteering has now been formed with triple world champion Michaela Gigon (AUT) as co-ordinator. The three other commission members are Remigijus Arlauskas (LTU), Anke Dannowski (GER) and Adrian Jackson (AUS). It is envisaged that the commission will hold its first meeting in conjunction with the 2007 World MTB Orienteering […]
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