The World Orienteering Championships is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships
Sprint event at WOC 2013 in Vuokatti, Finland
Simone Niggli-Luder
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Simone Niggli-Luder is a Swiss orienteering athlete who has twice won all four women's competitions at the world championships. She is widely seen as one of the greatest orienteers of all time.
World Orienteering Championships
…medal events for both genders more than doubled from three per year in 1999 to eight per year in 2003. The period from 2003 onwards was dominated by Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland in women's orienteering and Thierry Gueorgiou from France in men's orienteering, and the two remain the most decorated orienteers for…
Simone Niggli-Luder in 2006.
Simone Niggli-Luder and Marianne Andersen at World Orienteering Championships 2007
Simone Niggli-Luder and Frenchman Thierry Gueorgiou, middle distance gold medalists, World Orienteering Championships 2007