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26/07/2014 || Hagström: happy to share gold with hotel friend ||Arena||
Photo: Erik Borg How do you think Sara Hagström thinks about her second and shared gold at JWOC Italy? Does the Swede wish she had been faster in the last metres? First Hägström won the Sprint. Then she was just three seconds from gold on the Long Distance. The last individual distance ended with gold […]
25/07/2014 || Seven weeks navigating in Europe ||Arena||
Michael Laraia (left), Isabel Bryant and Ethan Childs are navigating around Europe this summer. Photo: Erik Borg For weeks, some very keen juniors from the USA have been travelling in Europe to experience terrain and controls in different countries. Now they are ready for the final races: the Middle Distance Final and the Relay at JWOC […]
25/07/2014 || Home cheering but not home terrain ||Arena||
The A-finalists from Bulgaria: Martina Dzhulieva, Stefan Mikhaylov (left), Martin Ponev and Apostol Atanasov are ready for good runs in the last individual race of JWOC. Photo: Erik Borg When the Bulgarians arrive at the arena they really feel that they are in their own country, but in the forest it isn’t just like that. “We […]
24/07/2014 || Johansson – learning from the world’s best ||Arena||
Anton Johansson is very often training with, and learning from, a medallist in the two last World Championships. His father is also a former star. On the Long Distance at JWOC, the young Swede himself wrote his name in the history books of orienteering. For Johansson it was in some ways “finally the gold”. Last […]
24/07/2014 || Høydal: thinking about winning for one year ||Arena||
Since JWOC last year, Gunvor Hov Høydal has been thinking daily about how to be at her very best in the forest races in Bulgaria. The Long Distance ended just as she wanted. When Gunvor started the first forest race at JWOC this year, she also knew a lot about what to do. With her […]
22/07/2014 || Tim Robertson: one year, one goal. Success achieved! ||Arena||
Tim Robertson achieved his goal in the sprint race. Photo: Erik Borg Tim Robertson is taking part in his fourth JWOC and has been at three senior World Championships too. What a talent he has; his goal of a Sprint gold medal has also been very high on his list for a long time. The […]
22/07/2014 || Sara Hagström: “I took some seconds extra” ||Arena||
Happy winner with her gold medal. Photo: Erik Borg When Sara Hagström passed the arena on the Sprint one year ago in silver position, it didn’t end that well. This year she again passed the arena in a good position, and this time it was a happy ending. “It gives something extra to win after […]
22/07/2014 || “My hair is no problem!” ||Arena||
Raquel Fernandes de Lima is a special person – a person with hair styled in a way unlike anyone else’s at JWOC in Bulgaria. For the first time Brazil is present at JWOC, with a team of two men and one woman. “My goal? I want to have good races and enjoy myself”, Raquel Fernandes […]
21/07/2014 || Belgians at JWOC: “Sprint can be a bit like poker” ||Arena||
Photo: Erik Borg Four Belgian boys are ready to do their very best at the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) in Bulgaria this week. They are running with the inspiration of Yannick Michiels’ results at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Italy. JWOC starts on Tuesday with the Sprint, and the Belgian team are experienced […]
12/07/2014 || Judith Wyder – the new queen ||Arena||
Photo: newspower.it Judith Wyder hasn’t been present at all big races this year. The reason was to do well at the World Championships, and she has had fantastic results. It ended with three golds. On the relay she started the last leg a bit more than two minutes after Tove Alexandersson from Sweden and Maja […]
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