Junior World Orienteering Championships: Great results for the Swiss
Posted on | July 7, 2009 | Category: News
The Swiss junior team had trained very hard for doing well in the sprint, and achieved amazing results.
– Our coach has focused a lot on sprint. He has done well in that himself, smiles the race winner Mattias Kyburz. Martin Hubmann, younger brother of the senior champion Daniel Hubmann, took bronze. Two more from Switzerland were among the six best in the men’s class. In the women’s class there were two Swiss among the six best.
The winner, who is 19 years old, lives close to Basel and has been orienteering since 2002. He had a great race all the way. He was not leading in the start of the race, but while a lot of the other competitors encountered problems on the very tricky course, he managed to find the right way.
The long distance has been the premier distance for Kyburz until now. – But now that has maybe changed, he smiles. In the long distance last year he won the bronze medal, just seconds from gold. – That medal was not expected, so I was satisfied then even though I was very close to gold without getting it, he says.
For the Czech Republic it was also a great day in the sprint, with medals for both Tereza Novotna and Milos Nykodym. That’s become almost common-place; the Czechs have now won medals in the JWOC sprint for the third time in a row.
Denmark also won a medal, Ida Bobach getting the silver.
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