Comments on: Who did the Orienteering Achievement of the Year 2018?

By: Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:37:21 +0000

I would like to nominate Shamsuri Abd Latif, president of the Malysian Orienteering Federation. Shamsuri started organizing orienteering in Malaysia 2007 when there was no orienteering activity left. This year he organized the first WRE in South East Asia and Malaysia was able to send it´s first athlete to an international champ (Azam to WUOC). We should not forget that orienteering achievment is not only about winning the big races.

By: SI

SI — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:00:57 +0000

Csilla Gárdonyi
This little girl won a historical gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championship at the age of 17. This was the first ever hungarian JWOC gold in the history for a woman. She achieved this in a very technical middle distance, under the pressure of the homeground. Beside this, she finished all her individual races on top10: one more medal (bronze) in the sprint and a 9th place in the long.
She won also the EYOC sprint and finished 4th at the long distance. Can’t wait to see her in the senior field. She is already a role model for young orienteers with her amazing attitude and lowliness.
(Lipica Open)

By: WouterVM

WouterVM — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 20:31:40 +0000

Yannick Michiels, as he is -year after year – not only getting faster, but even more focussed on winning that first sprint-medal at WOC. And orienteering is simple: it’s about fast&focus.

By: Luka Kosic

Luka Kosic — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:03:24 +0000

This year, Matija Razum from Croatian klub OK Japetic won Croatian cup and Croatian championship. But this is quite normal for him and doesn’t come as anything extraordinary. Every year for last 4 years he qualifies for WOC. Which also isn’t anything out of the ordinary. This year he even went to PWT camp in China. Which is rather expected step in his career. So, nothing extraordinary there, either.
However, Matija Razum is, at the same time an accomplished student at two universities – Civil Engineering and Kinesiology. He is also one of the most prominent trailrunners in Croatia, also competing in Ultra races. He also organizes trail races and manages race data. But what we all here in croatian orienteering sport admire the most is his organisational abilities at orienteering races. Matija is the go-to guy in drawing maps, setting courses, digitally and in reality. Not one of the races Matija organized or overwatched had any mistakes. He’s thorough and meticulous. Because of this, this year he became the president of our club. All of this wouldn’t be anything special for people of Matija’s calibre if it wasn’t for a fact that it was accomplished in the country centered only around soccer. Matija trains, Matija studies, Matija works to pay for his scholarship. He doesn’t have any sponsors. Every weekend he is either organising or running a race. His accomplishes are his own but when he does great we all do great, too.
Croatia is a small orienteering country but has one of the potentially greatest orienteerers in the world. In all segments of the sport.