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18/08/2011 || Won gold on wrong distance! ||Arena||
Annika Billstam has been working very hard with sprint this year and really wanted to run that at the Championships. The Swede didn’t get selected for the sprint, but the long instead, and won her first Championships gold.
18/08/2011 || An incredible 30 seconds ||Arena||
With a flag in his hand and with big applause from thousands of spectators, Thierry Gueorgiou ran into the arena to take his first gold on the long distance.
“The last 30 seconds of the race I will remember for always”, smiles Thierry.
He was the big favourite on the long distanc,e a distance he had not got a World Championships gold on earlier, and it ended with a very clear victory. The Frenchman was 4.27 minutes faster than second best Pasi Ikonen from Finland.
17/08/2011 || “For me there isn’t any difference between the distances” ||Arena||
The six best in the men’s class, together with the Mayor of Chambéry, Bernadette Laclais. Photo: Erik Borg Daniel Hubmann has at last won a World Championships sprint gold medal. “I have been working hard to get it”, he says. The Swiss phantom had a very good race, and heard when he passed the arena […]
17/08/2011 || A very happy Romanian ||Arena||
When Ionut Zinca crossed the finish line he was already showing more joy than anyone else. At the prize-giving it also looked as though he was the winner.
17/08/2011 || “Best that we all got medals” ||Arena||
Annichen Kringstad congratulating Linnea Gustafsson after the sprint race. Photo: Erik Borg Three Swedes got the medals in the women’s race. That all three were previous Championship or World Cup winners in sprint is what today’s winner Linnea Gustafsson thinks is the best thing of all. Linnea again won an international sprint race. In June […]
15/08/2011 || “Better to achieve higher than the goal” ||Arena||
Switzerland has as their goal a total of three medals for women and men this year. Last year Switzerland was the best nation.
15/08/2011 || Nordberg – bigger challenge than on home ground ||Arena||
Anders Nordberg sees a bigger challenge in this year’s championships than last year’s when they were in his home country. “Now it is challenging terrain that nobody has been in before. It wasn’t mapped earlier either. It’s equal for all and this makes it top-class orienteering”, he says. Of course it was a very successful […]
15/08/2011 || Strong Swedish women ||Arena||
The Swedish women have done really well on the middle distance qualification, with one heat winner and two second places. “Well, there are possibilities to fight for the gold”, says Annika Billstam, who was just 4 seconds down on Minna Kauppi in her heat. She is leading the World Cup standings overall, and won a […]
15/08/2011 || – Not all that difficult! ||Arena||
Chad Calliste isn’t more than 19 years old and his first orienteering outside Barbados was the middle qualification race at the World Championships – but he doesn’t think it was that challenging. “Of course it wasn’t that easy, but if I had had some more practice I think it could have gone much better”, he […]
14/08/2011 || A great start for Lauri ||Arena||
Lauri Sild did a good qualification and is running the long distance at WOC 20 years after his father Sixten took a medal. Photo: Erik Borg Lauri Sild is a first year senior and had a good qualification on the long distance, but he has really something to do if he shall follow in his […]
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