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26/02/2007 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: “Yes, I am a little nervous”, says Eduard Khrennikov ||News||
Eduard Khrennikov has won nine gold in World Championships in Ski Orienteering. Now he is ready for another competition and the body is ready for action. – I feel a little nervous, he smiles. It’s the really important thing that’s at stake now. – Russian Championships and other competitions are training for me. This is […]
26/02/2007 || Russian Chief Coach: “It’s not good if Russia wins all the medals” ||News||
The Russian Chief Coach, Alexander Bliznevsky, hopes gold will go to a number of nations. He thinks about the sport’s future and has developed a new way of organising ski orienteering that is easy to organise and can be something for the media. – All gold to Russia? No, that’s not good at all. It […]
26/02/2007 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Not the day to be a tourist ||News||
Eivind Tonna is relaxing on his bed, taking it easy. It’s just hours before the first competition in Russia. Nor is his girlfriend, Hannele Valkonen, using too much energy the day before either. – I would like to do some hard training the day before, but I am not doing very much, says Eivind. The […]
19/02/2007 || Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: Photos from the long distance ||News||
View photos of the medallists and of other successful athletes on the long distance race. The best men on the long distance were Olli-Markus Taivainen (left), Finland, winner Taras Kashchuk, Russia, and Daniel Nordebo, Sweden. Stanimir Belomazhev again had a good race. The Bulgarian was only 11 seconds from a medal. Daniel Nordebo from Sweden […]
17/02/2007 || Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: “My best-ever birthday” ||News||
Taras Kashchuk became 19 years old and world champion on the same day. “This is my best-ever birthday”, smiles the Russian. The junior from the Moscow region gained a comfortable victory. 67 seconds was the gap to number two, Olli-Markus Taivainen. “The race was good, but sometimes it was difficult to read the course on […]
17/02/2007 || Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: A strong team is the secret ||News||
The very good team environment is the secret of the Swedish success at JWOC in ski orienteering. ‘The blue and yellow’ have taken all the relay gold medals and six of the twelve individual medals awarded prior to the final race, the long distance. The Swedes have, of course, a very strong team of athletes. […]
16/02/2007 || Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: Sweden takes double gold ||News||
Swedish teams took the gold medals in both men’s and women’s classes in the JWOC relay. The men had the narrower victory; they led throughout, but at the finish their final leg runner, Johan Edin, was only 15 seconds ahead of his Norwegian rival Øyvind Watterdal. Finland moved steadily up the field – 8th after […]
16/02/2007 || Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: Changed schedule ||News||
The programme is a bit changed at the championships in Austria. The relay is now on Thursday and the long distance on Friday. The changing weather conditions is the reason for the new programme. Because of a severe danger of avalanches at the originally planned venue, all the competitions will now be held in Sportgastein; […]
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