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Best ever for Finland, Israel and Latvia

Minna Kauppi’s gold medal in the middle distance was the first World Orienteering Championships gold medal ever for Finland in the womens class over the middle or short distance. The first short distance race in the World Orienteering Champs was in Czechoslovakia in 1991. Now the Finnish women (and Kauppi…
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also) have gold medals in all disciplines except for the sprint distance. See Finland WOC history WOC 2008 records Best ever for Latvia Martins Sirmais has been in the World Orienteering elite on the middle distance for several years - winning a silver medal both at the European Champs in Estonia in 2006 and at the European Champs in Latvia earlier this year. However, at the World Champs Sirmais has never managed to repeat his fantastic runs from the European Champs. This year at the WOC Sirmais again did not succeed - finishing up as number 35 at the middle…

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