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New Zealand Orienteering Championships

A wide-open contest, with six or more front-running contenders, is in prospect for this weekend’s elite men’s New Zealand Orienteering Championship, to be fought out in and around Auckland. Best-performed of the likely stars is NZ-resident Carsten Joergensen – a world championship relay gold medalist for Denmark in 1997 and…
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individual bronze medalist two years earlier. Now 38 and employed as the NZ Orienteering Federation’s high-performance director, Joergensen is widely rated as the yardstick for NZ’s best – particularly since our current top-rated men, Ross Morrison and Chris Forne, are living and racing in Europe. But the Christchurch-based Joergensen says “it’s hard to know how I’ll go – it’s really wide open this year.” And he believes that any one of a handful of runners could take the sprint, middle-distance or long-distance titles up for grabs this weekend. Joergensen says that these days he prefers the two longer events rather…

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