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Tania, Carsten take long-distance titles

FORMER New Zealand orienteering star Tania Robinson today completed her comeback from an injury-enforced “retirement” to take her second national orienteering title in two days – reclaiming her Number One status by blitzing her rivals in the long-distance championship. The Henderson 36-year-old professes to “love” Woodhill Forest – “it’s home…
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ground….this is me. And today we had an amazing map – and a really cool course.” Robinson took those positives – and turned them into an even more dominant victory than her win in yesterday’s middle-distance event: Today she ran 1h0m43s for the 8.6km course – almost 11 minutes quicker than second-placed Rebecca Smith (Rotorua). The margin of victory, said Robinson, was “quite surprising.” After her win on steep farmland yesterday she was “quite tired” before today’s race: “But then the adrenalin kicks in….and you know everyone else is tired too.” Another experienced hand, in the form of transplanted Danish…

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