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01/08/2015 || Yannick is taking a day off ||Arena||
Sunday is the day marked in red for Yannich Michiels. Due to that he will not take part in the Sprint Relay. “I am glad I have the opportunity to not take part in the Sprint Relay. That’s an advantage before the Final”, he says. “I can concentrate on my preparations for the individual Final”. […]
01/08/2015 || Positive signal for last year’s champion ||Arena||
Søren Bobach won the Sprint on an incredible Danish day one year ago. This year he’s aiming for a position among the six best. Photo: Erik Borg The Dane was number four in the group that Kris Jones had the best time in. The runner from Great Britain was 15 seconds faster. “The race gave […]
01/08/2015 || Kris Jones: nervous in quarantine ||Arena||
Kris Jones is really wondering how amazing the final will be, with his great start to the Championships in the qualification. He was one of the three heat winners with being nine seconds faster than Øystein Kvaal Østerbø in group two. Jones is one of the big British hopes at the third WOC in Scotland. […]
01/08/2015 || Judith is speeding up again ||Arena||
Last year Judith Wyder was the queen of international orienteering. After that she hasn’t run that well, but now the Swiss star is back on track. Judith finished with the second best in one of the qualification groups on Friday evening. Only Maja Alm had a better time in group one. 14 seconds was the […]
01/08/2015 || Minna finished with a smile ||Arena||
She is one of the biggest athletes in orienteering history, and after the Sprint qualification Minna Kauppi had a big smile. Photo: Erik Borg “Now I’m smiling again”, she says. The Finnish star with an incredible 17 WOC medals has had tough years with a lot of injuries to struggle with. It has been few […]
10/07/2015 || The best-ever Great Britain men’s result on the Long ||Arena||
Aidan Smith is not really used to the mountain terrain in Norway, but has experience and speed and made history during the championships. Smith finished fourth on the Long Distance, just 39 seconds from a medal. “It’s good to do so well”, he says. The result is the best ever by a runner from Great […]
10/07/2015 || Matthias Gröll: Used to hard ground, success on the soft ||Arena||
Matthias Gröll has grown up with quite hard ground under his feet, but he can also do very well in the soft surroundings in Norway. The marshes are a bit Nordic and the runners from the Nordic countries did very well at JWOC in Rauland in the middle of the southern part of Norway. Of […]
10/07/2015 || The Finns had a plan for success ||Arena||
The Finns were the favourites, and they had big plans on how to get their first victory for some years in the JWOC Relay. Topi Raitanen had the first leg and already out from the start he was some metres in front of the other teams! There was no plan to escape from the other […]
10/07/2015 || JWOC Relay: Almost like last year for Sara ||Arena||
It was a remarkable last leg in the women’s class, but at the very end it again ended with a triumph for Sara Hagström and Sweden. At the beginning of the last leg there were two Norwegian teams in front. Later, the double individual bronze medal winner Sandrine Müller from Switzerland was in front in the landscape […]
09/07/2015 || Hagström’s biggest gold ||Arena||
Last year Sara Hagsröm won three golds at JWOC, but this gold in the Long Distance at JWOC in Norway is ranked higher. At these Championships, Sara is the person from whom most has been expected. She has in some way to defend last year’s success; there’s much more pressure. Sara far prefers to have […]
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