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15/02/2015 || “I’m mainly a coach now” ||Arena||
Eduard Khrennikov was again on the top of the podium at a World Championships. He got one more gold. “This was my 14th, and it is also some time since the last one”, he says. Kirill Veselov did a very good first leg and did better than he had done in the individual races at […]
14/02/2015 || Staffan Tunis: “The plan is to stop now” ||Arena||
Staffan Tunis is not training so much in hours than he used to, but again he has got the title World Champion. The Finn, who comes from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, won the Middle Distance at the World Ski Orienteering Championships four years ago in Sweden. Since then he has become father […]
14/02/2015 || “It’s just awesome” ||Arena||
When Milka Reponen started on the arena run-in she was number three. Just after finishing she didn’t know what the result was at all. “It was so close. I didn’t know if I had won”, the Finn says. At the prize-giving she went up to the top of the podium. For the first time she […]
12/02/2015 || “It’s not the honeymoon …” ||Arena||
Sarah-Jane and Nick Barrable are a bit keener on orienteering than most orienteers. For most of their lives they haven’t done any skiing, but now they are at the World SkiO Championships in Norway. “I spent the first few years of my life in Scotland, but there was no skiing”, Sarah-Jane says. And for Nick: […]
12/02/2015 || Better and better for Aleksi Karppinen ||Arena||
Aleksi Karppinen didn’t feel in perfect rhythm at the start of the race, but it ended in the best way for the Finn. The 19-year-old from Muhos, a town on the coast well north in Finland, won the Junior Long Distance with a margin of 38 seconds to the winner of the Sprint, Vladislav Kiselev. “The […]
12/02/2015 || Isabel Salen stepped up to gold ||Arena||
At the Junior Long Distance prize-giving, Isabel Salen stepped up to the highest place. She got the medal that was missing. The Swede has also a gold from the Relay last year. Individually she took silver and bronze in Estonia last year. “I had a very good race today”, she says. The junior winner is […]
12/02/2015 || A historic victory ||Arena||
When Lars Hol Moholdt won the Long Distance there was much more interest in the success than there normally is for a gold in ski orienteering. The Norwegian has been going hard for winning a gold for a long time, and on the Long Distance on home ground he made it. And this happened to […]
12/02/2015 || “Now I have won them all” ||Arena||
For years Josefine Engstrom has been one of the best in the world, but she was missing one world title – the Long Distance. The Swede won today by a margin of 36 seconds to Mira Kaskinen. “My best race ever? No, I made a mistake, but it was still a very good race for […]
11/02/2015 || Henning Sjökvist has grown up ||Arena||
This year Henning Sjökvist is taking part in his second European Youth Championships, and there is a difference from last time. He won the Sprint at Budor in Norway and was 1 minute and 49 seconds faster than the second one. “One year ago I also took part, but it didn’t go well at all, […]
11/02/2015 || Tove has energy for top speed all year ||Arena||
Tove Alexandersson had an excellent start this year in the World Cup in foot orienteering. With skis on her feet she had an amazing start in the World Championships (WSOC) in Norway. The Swede start didn’t take part in the Sprint Relay, but in the individual Sprint she was really on track with an incredible […]
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