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 Rancan at the 2024 World Orienteering Championships. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1996 (age 27–28) Uster, Switzerland [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Orienteering | |||||||||||||||||
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Riccardo Rancan (born 1996) is an orienteering competitor who runs for the Swiss national team. [1]
At the 2024 World Orienteering Championships, Rancan won a gold medal with the Swiss sprint relay team, along with Natalia Gemperle, Joey Hadorn and Simona Aebersold. [2]
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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Ruslan Gritsan is a Russian competitor and multiple world champion in both ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering.
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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 50km 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.
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