world orienteering
championships 2015
World Orienteering
Championships 2015
France’s Thierry Gueorgiou picks up his 13th World
Championship title in Scotland
The
IOF
World
Orienteering
Championships 2015 concluded Friday
7th August with the Long race, considered
by many as the blue riband event of the
World Championships, held in Glen
Affric, 25 miles south-west of Inverness.
Denmark’s Ida Bobach took the women’s
title, while the men’s race was won by
France’s Thierry Gueorgiou. The best
British result came from Cat Taylor, who
finished sixth in the women’s race.
Set against the backdrop of some
spectacular Highland scenery, the courses
took the athletes through difficult terrain
as they navigated their way over big hills,
around tough marshes and through deep
heather on courses of 15.5 km for the
men and 9.7 km for the women.
Many athletes commented on the
physical challenge of the course,
with
champion
Gueorgiou
describing the course as “as
tough as I expected” and Anna
Nilsson-Simkovics of Austria
saying that she had enjoyed the
race “even though everything
was a marsh”. Several runners
also noted the similarity of the
terrain to that in Norway, and
Norwegian athletes did do well,
taking two medals.
Image courtesy of Jan Kobach
www.sportip.biz
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