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woc :: relay - no suprises
No suprises today in the women's relay. Swizterland take gold, Norway silver and Sweden bronze. Norway and Sweden managed to run off the front of the pack on first leg, gaining over a 3 minute lead. On second leg the relay took shape with Sweden in the lead, then Norway, Finland and Switzerland, ...
woc :: Stevenson out of relay
Jamie Stevenson, who injured his knee whilst running the Long race final, has dropped out of Great Britain's relay team. The reserve Oli Johnson is now in the team, running middle leg, with Jon Duncan now the anchor man.
This is the first WOC relay for both Oli and Matt, however both have show...
woc :: long - niggli & khramov
Simone Niggli is another step closer to bagging herself a full set of gold medals after comfortably winning the World Championship long race by 2 minutes. Heli Jukkola from Finland took the silver medal with a very clean run, simply unable to match the speed of Niggli. Vroni Kö Salmi finished wit...
woc :: middle - simone & tero
Two years ago Simone Luder made orienteering history by winning all four WOC Gold medals in one week. In Japan today she came one step closer to replicating this feat with and amazing run to claim Gold in the middle distance. She towed her clubmate Jenny Johannsson of Sweden to a silver medal w...
woc :: sprint - bronze for gbr
Team GBR can celebrate it's first WOC medal since 2003 today with Heather Monro taking 3rd place in an exciting sprint final.
Five out of six Brits qualified again today with only Helen Bridle missing out. Then just four hours later they were back out for the final to challenge for medals.
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event :: scottish park champs
Scottish Park-O Championships
There are some people – not many, but around 5% of those in Deeside last week- who just could not find enough flags, and given the opportunity of a flag-finding break insisted on carrying on at the first ever* Scottish Park-O Championships
Ably organised and pl...
6 Day :: Le Tour Results
While the 21Elites were battling it out all week to gain a place in the chase, a competition of a smaller scale, but of no less importance, was going on in the M21Short class. Le Tour de Deeside was set up and run by Rob Palmer which went along similar lines of the famous 'Le Tour de France' and ...
ar :: Manchester Rat Race
Saab Salomons' Manchester Rat Race Experience:
After the disappointment of Edinburgh, we were fired up ready to restore the balance, and put the other races behind us.
Manchester was to be a tactically different race, with 2 smaller stages, both over a set course with a possibility of peopl...
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