Switzerland team for WOC 2006

The Switzerland WOC 2006 Team consists of 14 runners. Simone Niggli is the best on the World Ranking in the team with a 1st position - and she has also been the number one woman in international orienteering for the last 6 years. The numbers tells it all: 10 WOC gold medals, 5 WOC silver medals and 24 individual World Cup victories is quite unbeatable.

Strong runners behind Simone
The swiss women team is much more than Simone Niggli. Just behind Simone on the World Ranking, placed 2nd, is Vroni König-Salmi, who fights for her first individual WOC gold medal since the sprint in Tampere in 2001. The last swiss women within Top-10 on the World Ranking is Martina Fritschy - who managed a second place at the sprint distance in the World Cup Final in Italy last autumn.

New generation swiss men
The swiss men have been going through significant changes the last years - and the team now consists of many hungry and extremely talented young runners. Best of them all is Daniel Hubman - ranked second at the World Ranking - who suprised a whole orienteering world when he sprinted past Emil Wingstedt to give switzerland a bronze medal at the WOC relay 2005. He has also a silver medal from the sprint in WOC 2005, and is currently in the lead in the overall World Cup after silver, 7th and 10th place at EOC in Estonia this spring.

Coming dentist
A second man which must be mentioned in the swiss WOC team is Marc Lauenstein who managed a silver medal at the long distance in WOC in Japan last year. Marc had decided to keep out of international orienteering this year to fully concentrate on his dentist studies - but after managing to combine full-time studies with hard training this spring, he has decided to make a go for the WOC anyway.

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(C) 2006 Jan Kocbach