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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 […]
08/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Gustav knows how to adjust his speed ||News||
Gustav Bergman has grown up with orienteering and always been very eager to train and learn more. He has found out how to run a perfect long distance race. – I didn’t expect gold, but I hoped for that, Gustav smiles. He ran incredible well; he had the perfect speed. The difference to the Dane […]
08/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Photos from long distance ||News||
Marika Teini got congratulations from Jani Lakanen, one of the Finnish coaches and the World Champion on long distance in 2006. Photo: Erik Borg The weather was tough for both runners and organisers during the long distance with thunder, rain and a strong wind. Here one of the speakers has one hand on the microphone […]
07/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Photos from the sprint ||News||
Happy sprint medallists Photo: Erik Borg Matthias Kyburz won the first race at JWOC in Primiero valley in Italy. The Portuguese are coming! Romao Tiago finished 15th. …and Miguel Diogo (right) 11th! Jessica Lund (left), Salome Van Hoepen and Zoe Brentano from the Republic of South Africa find it very inspiring to compete at the […]
07/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Great results for the Swiss ||News||
The Swiss junior team had trained very hard for doing well in the sprint, and achieved amazing results. – Our coach has focused a lot on sprint. He has done well in that himself, smiles the race winner Mattias Kyburz. Martin Hubmann, younger brother of the senior champion Daniel Hubmann, took bronze. Two more from […]
07/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Lönnkvist has won in all distances ||News||
Jenny Lönnkvist from Sweden won the Junior World Championships sprint today, and now has a gold medal from all distances. – The feeling when getting the first gold two years ago was bigger, but it’s always good to win, smiles the Swede. The final-year junior from Tullinge, just 20 kilometres south of the Swedish capital […]
07/07/2009 || Junior World Orienteering Championships: Long distance ||News||
Bobach gold and silver! Today is certainly a day for celebration for the Bobach family of Denmark. Ida Bobach, silver medallist in the sprint yesterday, went one better today with victory by 1 minute and 21 seconds over yesterday’s winner and gold medallist at long distance last year, Jenny Lönnkvist of Sweden. Marika Teini of […]
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