Robertston Wins Gold Second Year in Row

Robertston Wins Gold Second Year in Row

Tim Robertson, from the Hutt Valley Orienteering Club, took gold in the Junior World Orienteering CHampionships (JWOC) Sprint for the second time today, but it was a close-run thing – he won by just 3 seconds.

The opening race of the Championships was held on a very hot day in the town of Åmot in Norway.

Robertson has written his name well and truly into the history books of orienteering, with a stellar run into GOLD in the sprint distance held today in Åmot. On a course which proved to be physically challenging, with difficult route choice legs, Robertson ran away from the field, leading from start to finish, to claim a second successive gold medal at JWOC, and a third successive medal: unheard of at JWOC level in the mens grade, and only beaten by Ida Bobach in the women

Robertson won last year’s Sprint in Bulgaria and was bronze medallist in 2013. He triumphed this year courtesy of a mistake by silver medallist Aleksi Niemi, Finland (fourth last year), who at a critical point on the course ran the wrong way round a house, losing more than the 3-second difference in the final times. Third was the Lithuanian Algirdas Bartkevicius. Finland and Switzerland both had two athletes in the top six.

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