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11/07/2016 || JWOC Long Distance: golds to Finland and Switzerland ||Arena, News||
Anna Haataja, Finland won the women’s race after finishing third in the Sprint and Joey Hadorn, Switzerland took his second gold of the Championships, in a gruelling Long Distance race at Val Müstair today.
10/07/2016 || Repeat win for Simona; Joey won with ‘wrong’ route choice ||Arena, News||
The Swiss winners have almost the same summary of the race: a very good one. And of course it was – they both became world champions! Simona Aebersold didn’t know of any mistakes. Joey Hadorn soon heard about one decision he lost some seconds on, but also he had to take the biggest jump on to the podium.
10/07/2016 || Junior World Championships: Double Swiss victory in Sprint ||Arena, News||
Simona Aebersold and Joey Hadorn provided the perfect start for the home team in the Sprint race at Scuol, Switzerland today. Aebersold’s victory was emphatic, whilst Hadorn was the fastest of four Swiss in the top six.
28/05/2016 || EOC Relay: The winners didn’t know they were winners ||Arena, News||
The European Championships ended with an incredibly tight Relay competition. The last-leg runners were not at all certain what was happening.
28/05/2016 || European Championships: Finland wins women’s relay ||Arena, News||
Finland won the women’s relay, courtesy of an exceptional last-leg run by Merja Rantanen. The silver medals went to Sweden and the bronze to Russia.
28/05/2016 || European Championships: Men’s relay gold to Switzerland ||Arena, News||
Switzerland showed their strength in depth in the men’s relay today, their on paper second team taking the gold medals and the first team finishing fifth. Norway and the Czech Republic are the men’s silver and bronze medallists after a tight-fought race.
27/05/2016 || Kyburz got pay back for two years’ hard work ||Arena, News||
Matthias Kyburz has fulfilled his big goal in the Czech Republic. And Tove Alexandersson didn’t take a step without knowing where she was.
27/05/2016 || European Championships: two double gold medallists ||Arena, News||
Tove Alexandersson, Sweden and Matthias Kyburz, Switzerland both won their second individual gold medal of the Championships in the Middle Distance Final at Černá Voda, Czech Republic today. Alexandersson put on an impressive display of high-speed orienteering, winning by 2.13 and the fastest throughout. Kyburz also enjoyed a comfortable victory – by 34 seconds.
26/05/2016 || EOC Middle Qualification: Up and down day for Switzerland ||Arena, News||
Switzerland had two victories and two second-placings in the Middle Distance qualification heats today, with 5 more athletes qualifying comfortably for the final – but 3 of their athletes ended below the cut-off line – including European Long Distance Champion Daniel Hubmann.
24/05/2016 || Tove Alexandersson: “It was hard to do a perfect race” ||Arena, News||
For Tove Alexandersson, today’s race was a historic triumph. For Daniel Hubmann it was yet another gold medal in the Long Distance.
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