2012 World Orienteering Championships

The 29th World Orienteering Championships was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 14 to 21 July 2012.^[1][2]

World Orienteering Championships 2012

Host city	Lausanne
Country	Switzerland
Nations	46
Opening	14 July 2012 (2012-07-14)
Closing	21 July 2012 (2012-07-21)
Website	woc2012.ch
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details	Matthias Kyburz  Switzerland	Matthias Merz  Switzerland	Matthias Müller  Switzerland
Middle distance details	Edgars Bertuks  Latvia	Valentin Novikov  Russia	Fabian Hertner  Switzerland
Long distance details	Olav Lundanes  Norway	Matthias Merz  Switzerland	Edgars Bertuks  Latvia
Relay details	Czech Republic Tomáš Dlabaja Jan Šedivý Jan Procházka	Norway Magne Daehli Carl Waaler Kaas Olav Lundanes	Sweden Jonas Leandersson Peter Öberg Anders Holmberg

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details	Simone Niggli-Luder  Switzerland	Maja Alm  Denmark	Annika Billstam  Sweden
Middle distance details	Minna Kauppi  Finland	Tove Alexandersson  Sweden	Tatyana Riabkina  Russia
Long distance details	Simone Niggli-Luder  Switzerland	Minna Kauppi  Finland	Annika Billstam  Sweden
Relay details	Switzerland Ines Brodmann Judith Wyder Simone Niggli-Luder	Sweden Annika Billstam Helena Jansson Tove Alexandersson	Norway Silje Ekroll Jahren Mari Fasting Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg

Participating countries

A total of 46 countries participated at this World Championships.^[3]

Argentina  Australia  Austria  Belarus  Belgium  Brazil  Bulgaria  Canada  China  Chinese Taipei

Croatia  Czech Republic  DPR Korea  Denmark  Estonia  Finland  France  Germany  Great Britain  Hong Kong

Ireland  Italy  Japan  Latvia  Liechtenstein  Lithuania  Macedonia  Moldova  Netherlands  New Zealand

Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  South Africa  South Korea

Spain  Sweden  Switzerland  Turkey  Ukraine  United States

Results

Sprint

The sprint finals were held on 14 July 2012 at Lausanne-Ouchy.^[4]

Men's sprint

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Men (4.2 km)^[1][4]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Matthias Kyburz	Switzerland	15:32.0
	Matthias Merz	Switzerland	15:49.5
	Matthias Müller	Switzerland	15:59.0
4	Scott Fraser	Great Britain	16:11.2
5	Andrey Khramov	Russia	16:22.7
6	Tuomo Mäkelä	Finland	16:32.9
7	Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	Lithuania	16:33.8
8	Zsolt Lenkei	Hungary	16:39.5
9	Søren Bobach	Denmark	16:43.7
10	Vojtìch Král	Czech Republic	16:45.0
11	Murray Strain	Great Britain	16:46.1
12	Anders Holmberg	Sweden	16:49.9
13	Jerker Lysell	Sweden	16:51.2
14	Ionut Zinca	Romania	16:52.7
15	Jonas Leandersson	Sweden	16:59.2
16	Tomáš Dlabaja	Czech Republic	16:59.5
17	Wojciech Kowalski	Poland	17:02.5
18	Vincent Coupat	France	17:04.2
19	Alexey Sidorov	Russia	17:05.2
20	Rasmus Thrane Hansen	Denmark	17:07.7
21	Robert Merl	Austria	17:08.2
22	Ádám Kovács	Hungary	17:12.7
23	Tuomas Tervo	Finland	17:15.4
24	Andreu Blanes Reig	Spain	17:21.0
25	Vilius Aleliunas	Lithuania	17:28.1
26	Jan Procházka	Czech Republic	17:30.0
27	Nicolas Simonin	Ireland	17:35.2
28	Alexander Lubina	Germany	17:37.4
29	Ulf Forseth Indgaard	Norway	17:38.0
30	Antonio Martínez	Spain	17:42.2
31	Yannick Michiels	Belgium	17:43.1
32	Julian Dent	Australia	17:50.3
33	Tim Robertson	New Zealand	17:51.7
34	Simonas Krepsta	Lithuania	17:52.4
35	Ivaylo Kamenarov	Bulgaria	17:54.4
36	Patrick Goeres	Canada	17:54.7
36	Ross Morrison	New Zealand	17:54.7
38	Dmitry Nakonechny	Russia	17:55.4
39	David Brickhill-Jones	Australia	18:00.6
40	Wolfgang Siegert	Austria	18:01.2
41	Robert Krüger	Germany	18:11.0
42	Klaus Schgaguler	Italy	18:13.2
43	Michael Crone	South Africa	18:41.3
99	Kiril Nikolov	Bulgaria	miss 1 punch
99	Frederic Tranchand	France	miss 1 punch

Women's sprint

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Women (3.7 km)^[1][4]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Simone Niggli-Luder	Switzerland	15:43.7
	Maja Alm	Denmark	16:20.2
	Annika Billstam	Sweden	16:28.0
4	Helena Jansson	Sweden	16:30.2
5	Rahel Friederich	Switzerland	16:33.1
6	Venla Niemi	Finland	16:39.4
7	Claire Ward	Great Britain	16:49.4
8	Lena Eliasson	Sweden	16:56.9
9	Lizzie Ingham	New Zealand	17:07.2
10	Silje Ekroll Jahren	Norway	17:12.8
11	Tessa Hill	Great Britain	17:14.4
12	Signe Klinting	Denmark	17:18.2
13	Shuangyan Hao	China	17:25.4
14	Fanni Gyurkó	Hungary	17:33.6
14	Marika Teini	Finland	17:33.6
16	Judith Wyder	Switzerland	17:36.7
17	Heidi Østlid Bagstevold	Norway	17:37.1
18	Iveta Duchová	Czech Republic	17:39.0
19	Ausrine Kutkaite	Lithuania	17:44.9
20	Alison Crocker	United States	17:47.3
21	Svetlana Mironova	Russia	17:47.7
22	Ursula Kadan	Austria	18:01.2
23	Anastasiya Tikhonova	Russia	18:02.9
24	Greta Knarston	New Zealand	18:05.0
25	Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg	Norway	18:06.3
26	Inga Kazlauskaite	Lithuania	18:19.1
27	Kim Geypen	Belgium	18:26.9
28	Ildikó Szerencsi	Hungary	18:31.1
29	Hanna Wisniewska	Poland	18:33.8
30	Daria Lajn	Poland	18:35.1
31	Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova	Bulgaria	18:37.8
32	Gabija Ražaityte	Lithuania	18:39.9
33	Sofia Haajanen	Finland	18:46.9
34	Mikiko Minagawa	Japan	18:52.8
35	Celine Dodin	France	19:05.8
36	Lea Vercellotti	France	19:07.5
37	Mingyue Zhu	China	19:24.1
38	Catherine Taylor	Great Britain	19:29.4
39	Amélie Chataing	France	19:40.5
40	Esther Doetsch	Germany	20:03.7
41	Yingwei Wang	China	20:28.6
42	Raquel Costa	Portugal	21:19.7
43	Nataliya Dimitrova	Bulgaria	23:10.0
99	Eva Jureníková	Czech Republic	miss 1 punch
99	Annika Rihma	Estonia	miss 1 punch

Middle distance

The middle distance finals were held on 17 July 2012 at St-Cergue / La Givrine.^[5]

Men's middle distance

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Men (6.5 km)^[1][5]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Edgars Bertuks	Latvia	36:45
	Valentin Novikov	Russia	36:50
	Fabian Hertner	Switzerland	37:10
4	Thierry Gueorgiou	France	37:15
5	Francois Gonon	France	37:18
6	Peter Öberg	Sweden	37:22
7	Magne Daehli	Norway	38:08
8	Gustav Bergman	Sweden	38:33
9	Marc Lauenstein	Switzerland	38:48
10	Jan Procházka	Czech Republic	39:01
11	Hannu Airila	Finland	39:02
11	Oleksandr Kratov	Ukraine	39:02
13	Kalvis Mihailovs	Latvia	39:10
14	Olav Lundanes	Norway	39:19
15	Philippe Adamski	France	39:26
16	Lauri Sild	Estonia	39:42
17	Pasi Ikonen	Finland	39:46
18	Johan Runesson	Sweden	39:49
19	Leonid Novikov	Russia	40:01
20	Gernot Kerschbaumer	Austria	40:19
21	Mārtiņš Sirmais	Latvia	40:22
22	Carl Waaler Kaas	Norway	40:24
23	Pavlo Ushkvarok	Ukraine	40:25
24	Lucas Basset	France	40:30
25	Tue Lassen	Denmark	40:33
26	Robert Merl	Austria	41:03
27	Olle Kärner	Estonia	41:05
27	Štanfel Matjaž	Croatia	41:05
29	Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	Lithuania	41:07
30	Mikhail Mamleev	Italy	41:11
31	Vojtìch Král	Czech Republic	41:21
32	Zsolt Lenkei	Hungary	41:40
33	Simonas Krėpšta	Lithuania	41:42
34	Jarkko Huovila	Finland	42:27
34	Michal Krajčík	Slovakia	42:27
36	Graham Gristwood	Great Britain	42:48
37	Aleksei Alekseyonok	Belarus	43:28
38	Ionut Zinca	Romania	43:37
39	Ross Morrison	New Zealand	44:04
40	Bjarne Friedrichs	Germany	45:53
41	Ivaylo Kamenarov	Bulgaria	46:41
42	Yury Tambasov	Belarus	47:25
43	Fabien Pasquasy	Belgium	51:15
99	Søren Bobach	Denmark	dropout (dnf)
99	Baptiste Rollier	Switzerland	dropout (dnf)

Women's middle distance

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Women (5.5 km)^[1][5]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Minna Kauppi	Finland	37:37
	Tove Alexandersson	Sweden	38:09
	Tatyana Riabkina	Russia	39:03
4	Ida Bobach	Denmark	39:52
5	Simone Niggli-Luder	Switzerland	40:00
6	Annika Billstam	Sweden	40:07
7	Sara Lüscher	Switzerland	40:53
8	Merja Rantanen	Finland	41:03
9	Inga Dambe	Latvia	41:15
10	Saila Kinni	Finland	41:24
11	Lina Strand	Sweden	42:04
12	Kristina Rybakovaitė	Lithuania	43:17
12	Dana Šafka Brožková	Czech Republic	43:17
14	Fanni Gyurkó	Hungary	43:38
15	Anastasia Trubkina	Russia	43:46
16	Nadiya Volynska	Ukraine	43:51
17	Heidi Østlid Bagstevold	Norway	44:17
18	Amélie Chataing	France	44:33
19	Iveta Duchová	Czech Republic	44:37
20	Judith Wyder	Switzerland	44:41
21	Rachael Rothman	Great Britain	45:22
22	Signe Klinting	Denmark	45:26
22	Claire Ward	Great Britain	45:26
24	Aija Skrastiņa	Latvia	45:29
25	Gabija Ražaitytė	Lithuania	45:46
26	Helen Palmer	Great Britain	45:58
27	Inga Kazlauskaite	Lithuania	46:10
28	Maja Alm	Denmark	47:22
29	Mari Fasting	Norway	47:24
30	Ida Marie Ness Bjorgul	Norway	47:47
31	Vanessa Round	Australia	47:58
32	Ursula Kadan	Austria	47:59
33	Anna Serrallonga Arqués	Spain	48:26
33	Elisa Elstner	Austria	48:26
35	Kirti Rebane	Estonia	50:11
36	Anja Arbter	Austria	50:50
37	Shuangyan Hao	China	50:59
38	Hanna Wisniewska	Poland	51:13
39	Lizzie Ingham	New Zealand	53:01
40	Ona Rafols Perramón	Spain	53:14
41	Louise Oram	Canada	53:31
42	Liis Johanson	Estonia	53:58
43	Christine Kirchlechner	Italy	54:34
44	Iliana Shandurkova	Bulgaria	54:53
45	Christiane Tröße	Germany	55:10

Long distance

The long distance finals were held on 19 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.^[6]

Men's long distance

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Men (18.3 km)^[1][6]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Olav Lundanes	Norway	1:34:42
	Matthias Merz	Switzerland	1:37:34
	Edgars Bertuks	Latvia	1:39:13
4	Philippe Adamski	France	1:40:19
5	Anders Holmberg	Sweden	1:41:46
6	Kiril Nikolov	Bulgaria	1:41:48
7	Dmitriy Tsvetkov	Russia	1:43:20
8	Frederic Tranchand	France	1:43:55
9	Tue Lassen	Denmark	1:44:46
10	Anders Nordberg	Norway	1:44:51
11	Yury Tambasov	Belarus	1:44:57
12	Jan Šedivý	Czech Republic	1:45:08
13	Mikhail Mamleev	Italy	1:45:11
14	Fredric Portin	Finland	1:45:23
15	Gernot Kerschbaumer	Austria	1:45:39
16	Kalvis Mihailovs	Latvia	1:46:32
17	Hans Gunnar Omdal	Norway	1:47:18
18	Tomáš Dlabaja	Czech Republic	1:47:24
19	Matthias Kyburz	Switzerland	1:47:28
20	Scott Fraser	Great Britain	1:48:31
21	Vytautas Beliūnas	Lithuania	1:48:59
22	Ádám Kovács	Hungary	1:49:22
23	Rasmus Djurhuus	Denmark	1:50:06
24	Ionut Zinca	Romania	1:50:37
25	Vilius Aleliunas	Lithuania	1:51:36
26	Bartosz Pawlak	Poland	1:52:02
27	Pavlo Ushkvarok	Ukraine	1:52:04
28	Erik Rost	Sweden	1:52:22
29	Rasmus Thrane Hansen	Denmark	1:52:52
30	Julian Dent	Australia	1:54:18
31	Tuomas Tervo	Finland	1:54:42
32	Stepan Kodeda	Czech Republic	1:55:21
33	Diogo Miguel	Portugal	1:55:24
34	Alessio Tenani	Italy	1:55:48
35	Aleksei Alekseyonok	Belarus	1:56:42
36	Yannick Michiels	Belgium	1:57:21
37	Artem Panchenko	Ukraine	1:57:43
38	Peeter Pihl	Estonia	1:57:50
39	Nicolas Simonin	Ireland	1:58:54
99	Gustav Bergman	Sweden	miss 1 punch
99	Fabian Hertner	Switzerland	punch 1 wrong
99	Andrey Khramov	Russia	dropout (dnf)
99	Wojciech Kowalski	Poland	miss 1 punch
99	Valentin Novikov	Russia	dropout (dnf)
99	Lauri Sild	Estonia	miss 1 punch

Women's long distance

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Women (12.4 km)^[1][6]

Rank	Competitor	Nation	Time
	Simone Niggli-Luder	Switzerland	1:15:07
	Minna Kauppi	Finland	1:16.38
	Annika Billstam	Sweden	1:17:13
4	Tatyana Riabkina	Russia	1:19:17
5	Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg	Norway	1:20:05
6	Eva Juřeníková	Czech Republic	1:21:10
7	Merja Rantanen	Finland	1:22:51
8	Ida Bobach	Denmark	1:23:22
9	Ines Brodmann	Switzerland	1:23:23
10	Venla Niemi	Finland	1:23:35
11	Sara Lüscher	Switzerland	1:24:04
12	Lina Strand	Sweden	1:25:15
13	Svetlana Mironova	Russia	1:25:38
14	Mari Fasting	Norway	1:26:10
15	Fanni Gyurkó	Hungary	1:26:38
16	Celine Dodin	France	1:27:31
17	Vendula Klechová	Czech Republic	1:28:40
18	Tone Wigemyr	Norway	1:28:52
19	Dana Šafka Brožková	Czech Republic	1:29:03
20	Signe Klinting	Denmark	1:29:26
21	Inga Dambe	Latvia	1:29:30
22	Ursula Kadan	Austria	1:29:43
23	Daria Lajn	Poland	1:31:36
24	Annika Rihma	Estonia	1:32:04
25	Claire Ward	Great Britain	1:32:17
26	Anastasiya Tikhonova	Russia	1:32:19
27	Ausrine Kutkaite	Lithuania	1:32:41
28	Ildikó Szerencsi	Hungary	1:35:08
29	Nadiya Volynska	Ukraine	1:35:11
30	Kristina Rybakovaitė	Lithuania	1:35:21
31	Olga Sluta	Ukraine	1:35:50
32	Miek Fabré	Belgium	1:36:26
33	Louise Oram	Canada	1:37:48
34	Lea Vercellotti	France	1:38:38
35	Aislinn Prendergast	Australia	1:39:58
36	Helen Bridle	Great Britain	1:41:01
37	Sarah Rollins	Great Britain	1:41:02
38	Inga Kazlauskaite	Lithuania	1:41:23
39	Anna Serrallonga Arqués	Spain	1:41:32
40	Samantha Saeger	United States	1:41:39
41	Kim Geypen	Belgium	1:43:48
42	Kirti Rebane	Estonia	1:48:38
43	Elisa Elstner	Austria	1:52:08
44	Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova	Bulgaria	1:56:52
99	Lena Eliasson	Sweden	dropout (dnf)

Relay

The relay events were held on 21 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.^[7]

Men's relay

WOC 2012 – Relay – Men (6.9 + 6.9 + 6.9 km)^[1][7]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time
	Czech Republic	Tomáš Dlabaja, Jan Šedivý, Jan Procházka	1:40:00
	Norway	Magne Daehli, Carl Waaler Kaas, Olav Lundanes	1:40:06
	Sweden	Jonas Leandersson, Peter Öberg, Anders Holmberg	1:40:11
4	Switzerland	Fabian Hertner, Matthias Müller, Matthias Merz	1:41:21
5	France	Philippe Adamski, Thierry Gueorgiou, Francois Gonon	1:42:56
6	Denmark	Søren Bobach, Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Tue Lassen	1:43:08
7	Latvia	Mārtiņš Sirmais, Kalvis Mihailovs, Edgars Bertuks	1:45:31
8	Lithuania	Vilius Aleliunas, Simonas Krėpšta, Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	1:45:42
9	Ukraine	Pavlo Ushkvarok, Oleksandr Kratov, Denys Shcherbakov	1:47:01
10	Poland	Bartosz Pawlak, Michal Olejnik, Wojciech Kowalski	1:47:58
11	Italy	Klaus Schgaguler, Alessio Tenani, Mikhail Mamleev	1:48:08
12	Austria	Robert Merl, Helmut Gremmel, Gernot Kerschbaumer	1:48:38
13	Belgium	Tomas Hendrickx, Fabien Pasquasy, Yannick Michiels	1:49:34
14	Slovakia	Pavol Bukovác, Michal Krajčík, Marián Dávidík	1:49:53
15	Finland	Tuomas Tervo, Hannu Airila, Fredric Portin	1:50:09
16	Great Britain	Mark Nixon, Matthew Speake, Scott Fraser	1:50:45
17	Estonia	Peeter Pihl, Olle Kärner, Lauri Sild	1:51:02
18	Spain	Antonio Martínez, Luis Nogueira de La Muela, Andreu Blanes Reig	1:52:00
19	Hungary	Máté Baumholczer, Zsolt Lenkei, Ádám Kovács	1:53:39
20	Belarus	Yury Tambasov, Aleksei Alekseyonok, Dmitry Mikhalkin	1:53:53
21	Bulgaria	Kiril Nikolov, Ivaylo Kamenarov, Ivan Sirakov	1:54:21
22	Australia	David Brickhill-Jones, Simon Uppill, Julian Dent	1:55:45
23	Germany	Christoph Brandt, Bjarne Friedrichs, Sören Lösch	1:57:29
24	Portugal	Miguel Silva, Diogo Miguel, Manuel Horta	2:00:58
25	New Zealand	Ross Morrison, Thomas Reynolds, Toby Scott	2:04:42
26	Ireland	Nicolas Simonin, Colm Hill, Darren Burke	2:07:12
27	Brazil	Leandro Pereira Pasturiza, Fábio Kuczkoski, Ronaldo Almeida	2:11:35
28	Canada	Patrick Goeres, Robbie Anderson, Will Critchley	2:18:01
29	USA	Eric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Giacomo Barbone	2:22:11
30	Turkey	Ahmet Kaçmaz, Musa Erdoğan, Fatih Bodur	2:23:32
31	Japan	Shigeyuki Koizumi, Toshiyuki Matsuzawa, Wataru Teragauchi	2:25:30
32	China	Xiyuan Liang, Zhihui Yi, Qiaoping Li	2:40:32
33	Hong Kong	Chi Kin Man, Gerald Yip, Chun Kit Tang	3:13:09
99	Russia	Andrey Khramov, Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Valentin Novikov	disqualified
99	South Korea	Byung-Gu Ryu, Geun-Hee Hong, Jong-Hyun Park	disqualified

Women's relay

WOC 2012 – Relay – Women (5.9 + 5.9 + 5.9 km)^[1][7]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time
	Switzerland	Ines Brodmann, Judith Wyder, Simone Niggli-Luder	1:44:54
	Sweden	Annika Billstam, Helena Jansson, Tove Alexandersson	1:47:18
	Norway	Silje Ekroll Jahren, Mari Fasting, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg	1:48:11
4	Russia	Anastasiya Tikhonova, Svetlana Mironova, Tatyana Riabkina	1:48:38
5	Finland	Venla Niemi, Merja Rantanen, Minna Kauppi	1:51:41
6	Denmark	Emma Klingenberg, Ida Bobach, Maja Alm	1:52:21
7	France	Celine Dodin, Lea Vercellotti, Amélie Chataing	1:53:13
8	Czech Republic	Iveta Duchova, Dana Šafka Brožková, Eva Juřeníková	1:59:54
9	Estonia	Kirti Rebane, Liis Johanson, Annika Rihma	2:00:24
10	Great Britain	Sarah Rollins, Claire Ward, Catherine Taylor	2:00:33
11	Ukraine	Anastasiia Danylova, Nadiya Volynska, Olga Reznichenko	2:01:02
12	Poland	Paulina Faron, Daria Lajn, Hanna Wisniewska	2:03:38
13	Lithuania	Kristina Rybakovaitė, Gabija Ražaitytė, Ausrine Kutkaite	2:03:52
14	Hungary	Fanni Gyurkó, Éva Novai, Ildikó Szerencsi	2:04:06
15	USA	Alison Crocker, Sandra Lauenstein, Samantha Saeger	2:05:19
16	Austria	Ursula Kadan, Elisa Elstner, Anja Arbter	2:07:16
17	China	Mingyue Zhu, Yingwei Wang, Shuangyan Hao	2:09:39
18	Germany	Esther Doetsch, Christiane Tröße, Sieglinde Kundisch	2:09:56
19	New Zealand	Lizzie Ingham, Kate Morrison, Amber Morrison	2:14:34
20	Italy	Carlotta Scalet, Maria Novella Sbaraglia, Christine Kirchlechner	2:14:47
21	Bulgaria	Nataliya Dimitrova, Iliana Shandurkova, Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova	2:15:56
22	Australia	Rachel Effeney, Aislinn Prendergast, Vanessa Round	2:17:53
23	Spain	Ona Rafols Perramón, Berta Meseguer Flaqué, Anna Serrallonga Arqués	2:21:15
24	Turkey	Tuğba Cın, Selvihan Günaydin, Şengűl Űzen	2:57:58
25	Hong Kong	Tsz Ying Yu, Pui Fung Chan, Yuen Ki Hilda Cheng	3:20:15
99	Belarus	Nastsia Klapouskaya, Maria Alekseyonok, Irina Yurok	disqualified
99	Latvia	Laura Vīķe, Aija Skrastiņa, Inga Dambe	disqualified