The orienteering world is getting bigger
Posted on | July 11, 2007 | Category: News
Runners from 23 nations qualified for the final of the middle distance at JWOC in Australia. New nations are making progress.
The big orienteering nations have again demonstrated their strength, of course, but the most interesting thing in today’s qualification in the middle distance was that so many nations managed to get runners among the 20 best in the heats, and therefore will be represented in the final tomorrow.
It was also good to see that some runners from the not so big nations did very well. One good example of that is Nicholas Simonin from Ireland, who was fourth in his heat. He was only 80 seconds behind the Norwegian Olav Lundanes, who had a good race.
A lot of nations managed to get runners to the final: 20 different nations in the women’s class and 22 nations in the men’s.
The 23 nations are Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, CzechRepublic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. Only five nations didn’t get runners in the final – Belarus, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Japan.
View the photos – one runner from each of the participating 28 nations!
Jessica Davies, AUS
Stephanie Killman, AUT
Johan Goubau, BLR
Ilian Tonchev, BUL
Fraser Ross, CAN
Liang Jianlong, CHN
Adam Chromy, CZE
Rico Mogensen, DEN
Daniel Portal Gordillo, ESP
Tiimoa Sild, EST
Aapo Summanen, FIN
Gaelle Barlet, FRA
Tessa Hill, GBR
Marie Winkler, GER
U Hang Leung, HKG
Zsolt Lenkei, HUN, and Juste Raimbault, FRA
Nicholas Simonin, IRL
Nicole Scalet, ITA
Yuki Shirakata, JPN
Anatolijis Tarasova, LAT
Vilius Aleliunas, LTU
Tineke Berthelsen, NZL
Olav Lundanes, NOR
Petr Nurmukhametov, RUS
Mihal Krajic, SVK
Martin Hubmann, SUI
Jenny Lönnkvist, SWE
Holly Kuestner, USA
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