Friday, 14 May 2021
Home athlete Matthias Kyburz won one of the three men’s heats for tomorrow’s knockout sprint at the European Orienteering Championships in Neuchâtel.
The 31-year-old Kyburz, who has five world and five European titles, finished the 3.1 kilometres course at St-Blaise, which involved a 55-metres climb, in 10min 30sec to go forward as one of the strong favourites to tomorrow’s 36-strong final.
The two other men’s heats winners were Belgium’s Yannick Michels, who clocked 10:38, and Kasper Fosser of Norway who finished in 10:37.
Elena Roos, who was in the Swiss team with Kyburz that won yesterday’s opening sprint relay event, was the fastest winner in the women’s heats, clocking 11:24.
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Thursday, 13 May 2021
Hosts Switzerland got off to a winning start in the first designated sprint events at the European Orienteering Championships in the history of the sport, as they took gold in the sprint relay on the shores at Lake Neuchâtel today.
Switzerland were the defending champions in this mixed gender race in which four athletes run legs in a race taking around 15 minutes each, with women running the first and last legs.
The Swiss quartet of Simona Aebersold, Joey Hadorn, Matthias Kyburz and Elena Roos led from the mass start, clocking a combined total of 56min 55sec to finish 55 seconds clear of silver medallists Sweden.
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