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22/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: Dramatic relays ||News||
Today’s World Championship relays took place at the same venue as the middle distance competition. The tracks were tough both physically and technically, and no team managed to do a flawless performance. Russia led the men’s relay after the first leg, but Francois Gonon passed Valentin Novikov a few meters before the finish on the […]
22/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: Ultimate expression of fair play ||News||
The athletes Thierry Gueorgiou, Anders Nordberg and Michal Smola stopped on the last leg in the World Championships relay to help their fellow competitor who had got injured. The president of the IOF, Åke Jacobson, expressed a special thanks to the three athletes at the prize giving ceremony. “Orienteering prides itself on the idea of […]
21/08/2009 || World Trail Orienteering Championships: Day 1 ||News||
The World Trail Orienteering Championships kicked off yesterday in Miskolc, Hungary. After day 1, Lennart Wahlgren from Sweden has the lead in the paralympic class, and Masayuki Tashiro (JPN) in the open class. The competitions continue tomorrow. This year for the first time both open and paralympic class have a two-day event. In addition, the […]
20/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: Khramov knows how to sprint ||News||
Two intensely exciting sprint finals around the zoo and woodlands west of Miskolc ended with victories for Helena Jansson, Sweden and Andrey Khramov, Russia, both by substantial margins. Andrey Khramov really knows how to sprint. Last year he won sprint gold at the World Championships in Czech Republic, and just a month ago he was […]
19/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: Middle distance gold to Brozkova and Gueorgiou ||News||
The first World Orienteering Champions of 2009 have been crowned: Dana Brozkova, Czech Republic and Thierry Gueorgiou, France. Brozkova, reigning long distance champion, showed her class with a win by 10 seconds over Marianne Andersen, Norway. Andersen has now got four world championship silver medals and one bronze. Bronze medal today went to Simone Niggli, […]
17/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: long distance qualification ||News||
A big audience witnessed a tough long distance qualification race on Monday in Hungary. The six heat winners were more or less expected: Minna Kauppi FIN, Simone Niggli SUI, Marianne Andersen NOR, Graham Gristwood GBR, Baptiste Rollier SUI and Thierry Gueorgiou FRA. Graham Gristwood’s result was particularly impressive, as he spoke afterwards of two mistakes […]
16/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: middle distance qualification ||News||
The first competition of the World Orienteering Championships took place on Sunday morning in the beech-wooded hills near Miskolc, Hungary. Athletes fought in the middle distance qualification for places in the final, which will be held on Wednesday. The fast but tricky and physically tough courses ended in no big surprises, although one familiar name […]
16/08/2009 || World MTB Orienteering Championships: Second victory for Jackson, three Danes in top six ||News||
The mountain bike orienteering world championships ended with long distance race in Israel today. When Adrian Jackson won the men’s race, he and Australia became the only double gold medallists of these competitions: eight gold medals were divided by seven countries in Israel. Ruslan Gritsan from Russia got his third medal of the week, and […]
15/08/2009 || World MTB Orienteering Championships: leading sprint results ||News||
Last year’s sprint world champion Hana Bajtosova (SVK) took a convincing victory in this year’s sprint race with a winning margin of 23 seconds before the middle distance winner Marika Hara from Finland. Michaela Gigon from (AUT) finished third, and has now gold, silver and bronze medals from these competitions. In the men’s class, Adrian […]
14/08/2009 || World MTB Orienteering Championships relay ||News||
Mountain bike orienteers competed in the world championships relay today in Israel. Austria’s Michaela Gigon was the fastest in the women’s class and brought her team to victory: the first ever relay gold for Austria. Switzerland finished 30 seconds later on a second place, and the bronze went to Russia. In the men’s class, Russia […]
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