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Host city | Lausanne |
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Country | ![]() |
Nations | 46 |
Opening | 14 July 2012 |
Closing | 21 July 2012 |
Website | woc2012 |
The 29th World Orienteering Championships was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 14 to 21 July 2012. [1] [2]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Sprint | Matthias Kyburz ![]() | Matthias Merz ![]() | Matthias Müller ![]() |
Middle distance | Edgars Bertuks ![]() | Valentin Novikov ![]() | Fabian Hertner ![]() |
Long distance | Olav Lundanes ![]() | Matthias Merz ![]() | Edgars Bertuks ![]() |
Relay | ![]() Tomáš Dlabaja Jan Šedivý Jan Procházka | ![]() Magne Daehli Carl Waaler Kaas Olav Lundanes | ![]() Jonas Leandersson Peter Öberg Anders Holmberg |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Sprint | Simone Niggli-Luder ![]() | Maja Alm ![]() | Annika Billstam ![]() |
Middle distance | Minna Kauppi ![]() | Tove Alexandersson ![]() | Tatyana Riabkina ![]() |
Long distance | Simone Niggli-Luder ![]() | Minna Kauppi ![]() | Annika Billstam ![]() |
Relay | ![]() Ines Brodmann Judith Wyder Simone Niggli-Luder | ![]() Annika Billstam Helena Jansson Tove Alexandersson | ![]() Silje Ekroll Jahren Mari Fasting Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg |
A total of 46 countries participated at this World Championships. [3]
The sprint finals were held on 14 July 2012 at Lausanne-Ouchy. [4]
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
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![]() | Matthias Kyburz | ![]() | 15:32.0 |
![]() | Matthias Merz | ![]() | 15:49.5 |
![]() | Matthias Müller | ![]() | 15:59.0 |
4 | Scott Fraser | ![]() | 16:11.2 |
5 | Andrey Khramov | ![]() | 16:22.7 |
6 | Tuomo Mäkelä | ![]() | 16:32.9 |
7 | Jonas Vytautas Gvildys | ![]() | 16:33.8 |
8 | Zsolt Lenkei | ![]() | 16:39.5 |
9 | Søren Bobach | ![]() | 16:43.7 |
10 | Vojtìch Král | ![]() | 16:45.0 |
11 | Murray Strain | ![]() | 16:46.1 |
12 | Anders Holmberg | ![]() | 16:49.9 |
13 | Jerker Lysell | ![]() | 16:51.2 |
14 | Ionut Zinca | ![]() | 16:52.7 |
15 | Jonas Leandersson | ![]() | 16:59.2 |
16 | Tomáš Dlabaja | ![]() | 16:59.5 |
17 | Wojciech Kowalski | ![]() | 17:02.5 |
18 | Vincent Coupat | ![]() | 17:04.2 |
19 | Alexey Sidorov | ![]() | 17:05.2 |
20 | Rasmus Thrane Hansen | ![]() | 17:07.7 |
21 | Robert Merl | ![]() | 17:08.2 |
22 | Ádám Kovács | ![]() | 17:12.7 |
23 | Tuomas Tervo | ![]() | 17:15.4 |
24 | Andreu Blanes Reig | ![]() | 17:21.0 |
25 | Vilius Aleliunas | ![]() | 17:28.1 |
26 | Jan Procházka | ![]() | 17:30.0 |
27 | Nicolas Simonin | ![]() | 17:35.2 |
28 | Alexander Lubina | ![]() | 17:37.4 |
29 | Ulf Forseth Indgaard | ![]() | 17:38.0 |
30 | Antonio Martínez | ![]() | 17:42.2 |
31 | Yannick Michiels | ![]() | 17:43.1 |
32 | Julian Dent | ![]() | 17:50.3 |
33 | Tim Robertson | ![]() | 17:51.7 |
34 | Simonas Krepsta | ![]() | 17:52.4 |
35 | Ivaylo Kamenarov | ![]() | 17:54.4 |
36 | Patrick Goeres | ![]() | 17:54.7 |
36 | Ross Morrison | ![]() | 17:54.7 |
38 | Dmitry Nakonechny | ![]() | 17:55.4 |
39 | David Brickhill-Jones | ![]() | 18:00.6 |
40 | Wolfgang Siegert | ![]() | 18:01.2 |
41 | Robert Krüger | ![]() | 18:11.0 |
42 | Klaus Schgaguler | ![]() | 18:13.2 |
43 | Michael Crone | ![]() | 18:41.3 |
Kiril Nikolov | ![]() | miss 1 punch | |
Frederic Tranchand | ![]() | miss 1 punch |
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
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![]() | Simone Niggli-Luder | ![]() | 15:43.7 |
![]() | Maja Alm | ![]() | 16:20.2 |
![]() | Annika Billstam | ![]() | 16:28.0 |
4 | Helena Jansson | ![]() | 16:30.2 |
5 | Rahel Friederich | ![]() | 16:33.1 |
6 | Venla Niemi | ![]() | 16:39.4 |
7 | Claire Ward | ![]() | 16:49.4 |
8 | Lena Eliasson | ![]() | 16:56.9 |
9 | Lizzie Ingham | ![]() | 17:07.2 |
10 | Silje Ekroll Jahren | ![]() | 17:12.8 |
11 | Tessa Hill | ![]() | 17:14.4 |
12 | Signe Klinting | ![]() | 17:18.2 |
13 | Shuangyan Hao | ![]() | 17:25.4 |
14 | Fanni Gyurkó | ![]() | 17:33.6 |
14 | Marika Teini | ![]() | 17:33.6 |
16 | Judith Wyder | ![]() | 17:36.7 |
17 | Heidi Østlid Bagstevold | ![]() | 17:37.1 |
18 | Iveta Duchová | ![]() | 17:39.0 |
19 | Ausrine Kutkaite | ![]() | 17:44.9 |
20 | Alison Crocker | ![]() | 17:47.3 |
21 | Svetlana Mironova | ![]() | 17:47.7 |
22 | Ursula Kadan | ![]() | 18:01.2 |
23 | Anastasiya Tikhonova | ![]() | 18:02.9 |
24 | Greta Knarston | ![]() | 18:05.0 |
25 | Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg | ![]() | 18:06.3 |
26 | Inga Kazlauskaite | ![]() | 18:19.1 |
27 | Kim Geypen | ![]() | 18:26.9 |
28 | Ildikó Szerencsi | ![]() | 18:31.1 |
29 | Hanna Wisniewska | ![]() | 18:33.8 |
30 | Daria Lajn | ![]() | 18:35.1 |
31 | Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova | ![]() | 18:37.8 |
32 | Gabija Ražaityte | ![]() | 18:39.9 |
33 | Sofia Haajanen | ![]() | 18:46.9 |
34 | Mikiko Minagawa | ![]() | 18:52.8 |
35 | Celine Dodin | ![]() | 19:05.8 |
36 | Lea Vercellotti | ![]() | 19:07.5 |
37 | Mingyue Zhu | ![]() | 19:24.1 |
38 | Catherine Taylor | ![]() | 19:29.4 |
39 | Amélie Chataing | ![]() | 19:40.5 |
40 | Esther Doetsch | ![]() | 20:03.7 |
41 | Yingwei Wang | ![]() | 20:28.6 |
42 | Raquel Costa | ![]() | 21:19.7 |
43 | Nataliya Dimitrova | ![]() | 23:10.0 |
Eva Jureníková | ![]() | miss 1 punch | |
Annika Rihma | ![]() | miss 1 punch |
The middle distance finals were held on 17 July 2012 at St-Cergue / La Givrine. [5]
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
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![]() | Edgars Bertuks | ![]() | 36:45 |
![]() | Valentin Novikov | ![]() | 36:50 |
![]() | Fabian Hertner | ![]() | 37:10 |
4 | Thierry Gueorgiou | ![]() | 37:15 |
5 | Francois Gonon | ![]() | 37:18 |
6 | Peter Öberg | ![]() | 37:22 |
7 | Magne Daehli | ![]() | 38:08 |
8 | Gustav Bergman | ![]() | 38:33 |
9 | Marc Lauenstein | ![]() | 38:48 |
10 | Jan Procházka | ![]() | 39:01 |
11 | Hannu Airila | ![]() | 39:02 |
11 | Oleksandr Kratov | ![]() | 39:02 |
13 | Kalvis Mihailovs | ![]() | 39:10 |
14 | Olav Lundanes | ![]() | 39:19 |
15 | Philippe Adamski | ![]() | 39:26 |
16 | Lauri Sild | ![]() | 39:42 |
17 | Pasi Ikonen | ![]() | 39:46 |
18 | Johan Runesson | ![]() | 39:49 |
19 | Leonid Novikov | ![]() | 40:01 |
20 | Gernot Kerschbaumer | ![]() | 40:19 |
21 | Mārtiņš Sirmais | ![]() | 40:22 |
22 | Carl Waaler Kaas | ![]() | 40:24 |
23 | Pavlo Ushkvarok | ![]() | 40:25 |
24 | Lucas Basset | ![]() | 40:30 |
25 | Tue Lassen | ![]() | 40:33 |
26 | Robert Merl | ![]() | 41:03 |
27 | Olle Kärner | ![]() | 41:05 |
27 | Štanfel Matjaž | ![]() | 41:05 |
29 | Jonas Vytautas Gvildys | ![]() | 41:07 |
30 | Mikhail Mamleev | ![]() | 41:11 |
31 | Vojtìch Král | ![]() | 41:21 |
32 | Zsolt Lenkei | ![]() | 41:40 |
33 | Simonas Krėpšta | ![]() | 41:42 |
34 | Jarkko Huovila | ![]() | 42:27 |
34 | Michal Krajčík | ![]() | 42:27 |
36 | Graham Gristwood | ![]() | 42:48 |
37 | Aleksei Alekseyonok | ![]() | 43:28 |
38 | Ionut Zinca | ![]() | 43:37 |
39 | Ross Morrison | ![]() | 44:04 |
40 | Bjarne Friedrichs | ![]() | 45:53 |
41 | Ivaylo Kamenarov | ![]() | 46:41 |
42 | Yury Tambasov | ![]() | 47:25 |
43 | Fabien Pasquasy | ![]() | 51:15 |
Søren Bobach | ![]() | dropout (dnf) | |
Baptiste Rollier | ![]() | dropout (dnf) |
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
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![]() | Minna Kauppi | ![]() | 37:37 |
![]() | Tove Alexandersson | ![]() | 38:09 |
![]() | Tatyana Riabkina | ![]() | 39:03 |
4 | Ida Bobach | ![]() | 39:52 |
5 | Simone Niggli-Luder | ![]() | 40:00 |
6 | Annika Billstam | ![]() | 40:07 |
7 | Sara Lüscher | ![]() | 40:53 |
8 | Merja Rantanen | ![]() | 41:03 |
9 | Inga Dambe | ![]() | 41:15 |
10 | Saila Kinni | ![]() | 41:24 |
11 | Lina Strand | ![]() | 42:04 |
12 | Kristina Rybakovaitė | ![]() | 43:17 |
12 | Dana Šafka Brožková | ![]() | 43:17 |
14 | Fanni Gyurkó | ![]() | 43:38 |
15 | Anastasia Trubkina | ![]() | 43:46 |
16 | Nadiya Volynska | ![]() | 43:51 |
17 | Heidi Østlid Bagstevold | ![]() | 44:17 |
18 | Amélie Chataing | ![]() | 44:33 |
19 | Iveta Duchová | ![]() | 44:37 |
20 | Judith Wyder | ![]() | 44:41 |
21 | Rachael Rothman | ![]() | 45:22 |
22 | Signe Klinting | ![]() | 45:26 |
22 | Claire Ward | ![]() | 45:26 |
24 | Aija Skrastiņa | ![]() | 45:29 |
25 | Gabija Ražaitytė | ![]() | 45:46 |
26 | Helen Palmer | ![]() | 45:58 |
27 | Inga Kazlauskaite | ![]() | 46:10 |
28 | Maja Alm | ![]() | 47:22 |
29 | Mari Fasting | ![]() | 47:24 |
30 | Ida Marie Ness Bjorgul | ![]() | 47:47 |
31 | Vanessa Round | ![]() | 47:58 |
32 | Ursula Kadan | ![]() | 47:59 |
33 | Anna Serrallonga Arqués | ![]() | 48:26 |
33 | Elisa Elstner | ![]() | 48:26 |
35 | Kirti Rebane | ![]() | 50:11 |
36 | Anja Arbter | ![]() | 50:50 |
37 | Shuangyan Hao | ![]() | 50:59 |
38 | Hanna Wisniewska | ![]() | 51:13 |
39 | Lizzie Ingham | ![]() | 53:01 |
40 | Ona Rafols Perramón | ![]() | 53:14 |
41 | Louise Oram | ![]() | 53:31 |
42 | Liis Johanson | ![]() | 53:58 |
43 | Christine Kirchlechner | ![]() | 54:34 |
44 | Iliana Shandurkova | ![]() | 54:53 |
45 | Christiane Tröße | ![]() | 55:10 |
The long distance finals were held on 19 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet. [6]
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
---|---|---|---|
![]() | Olav Lundanes | ![]() | 1:34:42 |
![]() | Matthias Merz | ![]() | 1:37:34 |
![]() | Edgars Bertuks | ![]() | 1:39:13 |
4 | Philippe Adamski | ![]() | 1:40:19 |
5 | Anders Holmberg | ![]() | 1:41:46 |
6 | Kiril Nikolov | ![]() | 1:41:48 |
7 | Dmitriy Tsvetkov | ![]() | 1:43:20 |
8 | Frederic Tranchand | ![]() | 1:43:55 |
9 | Tue Lassen | ![]() | 1:44:46 |
10 | Anders Nordberg | ![]() | 1:44:51 |
11 | Yury Tambasov | ![]() | 1:44:57 |
12 | Jan Šedivý | ![]() | 1:45:08 |
13 | Mikhail Mamleev | ![]() | 1:45:11 |
14 | Fredric Portin | ![]() | 1:45:23 |
15 | Gernot Kerschbaumer | ![]() | 1:45:39 |
16 | Kalvis Mihailovs | ![]() | 1:46:32 |
17 | Hans Gunnar Omdal | ![]() | 1:47:18 |
18 | Tomáš Dlabaja | ![]() | 1:47:24 |
19 | Matthias Kyburz | ![]() | 1:47:28 |
20 | Scott Fraser | ![]() | 1:48:31 |
21 | Vytautas Beliūnas | ![]() | 1:48:59 |
22 | Ádám Kovács | ![]() | 1:49:22 |
23 | Rasmus Djurhuus | ![]() | 1:50:06 |
24 | Ionut Zinca | ![]() | 1:50:37 |
25 | Vilius Aleliunas | ![]() | 1:51:36 |
26 | Bartosz Pawlak | ![]() | 1:52:02 |
27 | Pavlo Ushkvarok | ![]() | 1:52:04 |
28 | Erik Rost | ![]() | 1:52:22 |
29 | Rasmus Thrane Hansen | ![]() | 1:52:52 |
30 | Julian Dent | ![]() | 1:54:18 |
31 | Tuomas Tervo | ![]() | 1:54:42 |
32 | Stepan Kodeda | ![]() | 1:55:21 |
33 | Diogo Miguel | ![]() | 1:55:24 |
34 | Alessio Tenani | ![]() | 1:55:48 |
35 | Aleksei Alekseyonok | ![]() | 1:56:42 |
36 | Yannick Michiels | ![]() | 1:57:21 |
37 | Artem Panchenko | ![]() | 1:57:43 |
38 | Peeter Pihl | ![]() | 1:57:50 |
39 | Nicolas Simonin | ![]() | 1:58:54 |
Gustav Bergman | ![]() | miss 1 punch | |
Fabian Hertner | ![]() | punch 1 wrong | |
Andrey Khramov | ![]() | dropout (dnf) | |
Wojciech Kowalski | ![]() | miss 1 punch | |
Valentin Novikov | ![]() | dropout (dnf) | |
Lauri Sild | ![]() | miss 1 punch |
Rank | Competitor | Nation | Time |
---|---|---|---|
![]() | Simone Niggli-Luder | ![]() | 1:15:07 |
![]() | Minna Kauppi | ![]() | 1:16.38 |
![]() | Annika Billstam | ![]() | 1:17:13 |
4 | Tatyana Riabkina | ![]() | 1:19:17 |
5 | Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg | ![]() | 1:20:05 |
6 | Eva Juřeníková | ![]() | 1:21:10 |
7 | Merja Rantanen | ![]() | 1:22:51 |
8 | Ida Bobach | ![]() | 1:23:22 |
9 | Ines Brodmann | ![]() | 1:23:23 |
10 | Venla Niemi | ![]() | 1:23:35 |
11 | Sara Lüscher | ![]() | 1:24:04 |
12 | Lina Strand | ![]() | 1:25:15 |
13 | Svetlana Mironova | ![]() | 1:25:38 |
14 | Mari Fasting | ![]() | 1:26:10 |
15 | Fanni Gyurkó | ![]() | 1:26:38 |
16 | Celine Dodin | ![]() | 1:27:31 |
17 | Vendula Klechová | ![]() | 1:28:40 |
18 | Tone Wigemyr | ![]() | 1:28:52 |
19 | Dana Šafka Brožková | ![]() | 1:29:03 |
20 | Signe Klinting | ![]() | 1:29:26 |
21 | Inga Dambe | ![]() | 1:29:30 |
22 | Ursula Kadan | ![]() | 1:29:43 |
23 | Daria Lajn | ![]() | 1:31:36 |
24 | Annika Rihma | ![]() | 1:32:04 |
25 | Claire Ward | ![]() | 1:32:17 |
26 | Anastasiya Tikhonova | ![]() | 1:32:19 |
27 | Ausrine Kutkaite | ![]() | 1:32:41 |
28 | Ildikó Szerencsi | ![]() | 1:35:08 |
29 | Nadiya Volynska | ![]() | 1:35:11 |
30 | Kristina Rybakovaitė | ![]() | 1:35:21 |
31 | Olga Sluta | ![]() | 1:35:50 |
32 | Miek Fabré | ![]() | 1:36:26 |
33 | Louise Oram | ![]() | 1:37:48 |
34 | Lea Vercellotti | ![]() | 1:38:38 |
35 | Aislinn Prendergast | ![]() | 1:39:58 |
36 | Helen Bridle | ![]() | 1:41:01 |
37 | Sarah Rollins | ![]() | 1:41:02 |
38 | Inga Kazlauskaite | ![]() | 1:41:23 |
39 | Anna Serrallonga Arqués | ![]() | 1:41:32 |
40 | Samantha Saeger | ![]() | 1:41:39 |
41 | Kim Geypen | ![]() | 1:43:48 |
42 | Kirti Rebane | ![]() | 1:48:38 |
43 | Elisa Elstner | ![]() | 1:52:08 |
44 | Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova | ![]() | 1:56:52 |
Lena Eliasson | ![]() | dropout (dnf) |
The relay events were held on 21 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet. [7]
The World Orienteering Championships is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considered to be the most prestigious competition in competitive orienteering. The races are contested between members of the IOF, which are each aligned to a National Olympic Committee.
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Vojtěch Král is a Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion.
Johan Runesson is a Swedish orienteering competitor and World and Junior World Champion.
Søren Bobach is a Danish orienteering competitor, and world champion at both junior and senior level. He runs for OK Pan Århus.
Ida Marie Bjørgul is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, born in Halden and residing in Turku, Finland.
Ulf Forseth Indgaard is a Norwegian orienteering competitor who has received two medals at the Junior World Orienteering Championships.
Ida Bobach is a Danish orienteering competitor who was Junior World Champion in 2009, and became triple Junior World Champion from 2010, when she won the sprint, long distance and the relay. She represents the club OK Pan Århus, and since 2007, has received training from Danish national coach Lars Lindstrøm. In 2015 she won gold medals at the World Championships in the long and Relay.
Judith Wyder is a Swiss orienteering and ski orienteering competitor and runner. Her achievements include gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships and the European Orienteering Championships, both individually and with the Swiss relay team.
Matthias Kyburz is a Swiss competitor in orienteering and athletics. In orienteering, Kyburz has attained gold medals in the Junior World Orienteering Championships, European Orienteering Championships and the World Orienteering Championships. In athletics, Kyburz is a long-distance specialist; Kyburz attained the world record in 50 km on a treadmill of 2:56:35 on 16 April 2020, breaking a record held by Florian Neuschwander. On 7 April 2024 Kyburz ran 2:07:44 in his Marathon debut, becoming the third fastest Swiss athlete of all time over the distance after Tadesse Abraham and his coach Viktor Röthlin, and achieving the qualifying standard for the 2024 Olympic Games. In the Olympic Marathon, Kyburz finished in 30th place.
Edgars Bertuks is a Latvian orienteering competitor and world champion. He won the middle distance at the 2012 World Orienteering Championships in Lausanne, five seconds ahead of silver medalist Valentin Novikov.
Venla Niemi is a Finnish orienteering competitor.
Jonas Leandersson is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He won a gold medal in the sprint at the 2012 European Orienteering Championships in Falun. Gold at the 2014 European Orienteering Championships in relay and gold at the 2014 World Orienteering Championships relay competing with the same relay team.
Lina Strand is a Swedish orienteering competitor, born in Gothenburg. She won a bronze medal in the relay at the 2012 European Orienteering Championships in Falun.
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Robert Merl is an Austrian orienteering competitor and junior world champion.
Dmitry Nakonechny is a Russian orienteering competitor and junior world champion.
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Jan Procházka is a Czech orienteering competitor and world champion. He won a gold medal in the relay at the 2012 World Orienteering Championships in Lausanne, together with Tomáš Dlabaja and Jan Šedivý. He runs for Finnish club Kalevan Rasti.
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