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16/07/2010 || World MTB Orienteering Championships: Schaffner and Foliforov outstanding at long distance ||News||
Christine Schaffner, Switzerland, and Anton Foliforov, Russia, were the strongest at the tough long distance event at the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in Portugal. The courses were long, the hills steep and the weather hot. In addition, the course setter had planned long legs with difficult route choices. In these challenging conditions Schaffner and […]
15/07/2010 || Junior World MTB Orienteering Championships: Middle distance champions ||News||
Olga Vinogradova, Russia and Pekka Niemi, Finland are the new junior world champions at middle distance, after the race was re-run today on a new course on the World Championships long distance qualification map. Medallists Women 1) Olga Vinogradova RUS 49:34 2) Barbro Kvale NOR 51:583) Magdalena Seifertova CZE 52:51 Men 1) Pekka Niemi FIN […]
14/07/2010 || Invitation to IOF Foot and MTB Orienteering Event Advisers Clinic in Geneva ||News||
Invitation to IOF Foot and MTB Orienteering Event Advisers Clinic in Geneva The Swiss Orienteering Federation is pleased to invite you to the IOF Event Advisers Clinic to be held in Geneva, 8–10 October 2010. This Event Advisers Clinic is organised for the education and recruitment of new IOF licensed Event Advisers in the disciplines […]
13/07/2010 || World MTB Orienteering Championships: Michaela Gigon back at her best ||News||
The very experienced Austrian rider Michaela Gigon failed to win an individual gold medal at last year’s MTBO World Championships, her best being a silver medal at middle distance, but she went one better in today’s middle distance final with victory by 31 seconds over Rikke Kornvig, Denmark. Bronze medallist was last year’s middle distance […]
12/07/2010 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Preparation is everything ||News||
For more than half a year, the Norwegian male juniors have worked hard to get success at the Junior World Championships relay. –The preparations are the answer to why we did well, say the three winning boys, Gaute Hallan Steiwer, Eskil Kinneberg and Vegard Danielsen. In December last year a relay project was started for […]
12/07/2010 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Last minute drama before the relay ||News||
Just one hour and five minutes before start it was decided that the double world champion Ida Bobach would take part in the Junior World Championships relay in Denmark. Later that evening, she went to the banquette as the queen of the championships. The Danish girls have been preparing for the relay for almost a […]
12/07/2010 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Denmark and Norway take relay titles ||News||
Denmark took the women’s relay title and Norway the men’s on the last day of the Junior World Championships, the relay, held on the very hilly terrain of Rebild Bakker, Denmark on a hot and sunny day. Ida Bobach, gold medallist in sprint and long distance but injured for the middle final, had recovered sufficiently […]
12/07/2010 || World MTB Orienteering Championships: Polish and Australian riders take sprint titles ||News||
The first race in the 8th World Championships in Mountain Bike Orienteering, being held at Montalegre, Portugal this week, was the sprint where the new World Champions are Anna Kaminska, Poland and Adrian Jackson, Australia. Anna Kaminska, who was fifth in the equivalent race in Israel last year, won by just 2 seconds over the […]
11/07/2010 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Gaute took his time to get a gold medal ||News||
Gaute Hallan Steiwer has not studied that much the last two years. The Norwegian has been so eager to get success at the Junior World Orienteering Championships. On the middle distance, he finally got the first individual gold to Norway since 2007. -Since New Year I have only been studying 50 percent, Gaute says. -Is […]
11/07/2010 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Tove’s good race ||News||
The winner on the middle distance at the Junior World Championships in Denmark was the same as last year. Tove Alexandersson just needed some time to get used to the Danish terrain. -I didn’t think about defending the gold from last year. I just wanted to do a really good race, Tove says. The young […]
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