Orienteering at the 2019 Military World Games

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Orienteering
at the 2019 Military World Games
Dates19–23 October
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Orienteering at the 2019 Military World Games was held in Wuhan, China from 19 to 23 October 2019.[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual middle distance
Matthias Kyburz
 Switzerland
Florian Howald
 Switzerland

 Switzerland
Individual long distance race
Dmitrii Tcvetkov
 Russia
Frederic Tranchand
 France

 Romania
Relay
 Switzerland  Russia  France
Team
 Switzerland  Russia  Poland

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual middle distance

 Russia

 Russia
Aleksandra Hornik
 Poland
Individual long distance

 Russia
Ursula Kadan
 Austria
Elena Roos
 Switzerland
Relay
 Russia  Poland  France
Team
 Russia  Poland  France

Medal table[]

Source

Controversy[]

Chinese orienteering teams comprising both men and women counterparts were disqualified and their results were also rejected by the event organizers citing cheating offenses on the athletes for using illegal secret paths and markings with the assistance of spectators to claim medals in the individual middle distance events. China originally claimed a gold and a silver medal in women's category as well as a silver in men's category prior to the disqualification.[2] The issue was later notified by the International Orienteering Federation and announced officially that the medals won't be counted as part of the multi-sport event and clarified on the disqualification of the Chinese athletes.

A common protest was also held by the competitors from Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland and Austria accusing the Chinese team for gaining major unfair advantage in the competition.

References[]

  1. ^ "足球". wuhan2019mwg.com (in Chinese). 2019-10-25.
  2. ^ "Chinese orienteering team disqualified for cheating at Military World Games". www.theguardian.com. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-25.

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