A team of 3 Irish seniors will be taking part in the World universities orienteering champs this coming week.
Niamh O'Boyle and Nicolas Simonin will be taking time out of their World champs preperation to compete along with Colm Hill against the Worlds best students in Borlange, Sweden.
The team will be lead by Neil Dobbs veteran of a few WUOC competitions himself.
The Relays are now over and the competition has come to a close. It was a very successful competition for the small Irish team with arguably some of the best Irish performances at a World students championships.
Nicolas had a strong run on the opening day long distance finishing in 60th place out of over 100 runners.
The Middle on Thursday saw solid runs from the team - Nick (52nd), Niamh (62nd) and Colm (87th).
The Highlight for all would have to be the sprint competition. Niamh finished a close 1.40mins off the winner in 29th place. Both of the Men also finished in the top half of the competition - Nicolas (33rd) and Colm (47th). The team proving that here in Ireland we have the terrain, maps, planners and athletes to compete on the world stage in Sprint.
An excellent week and great work by the inspirational team leader Neil Dobbs!
Full results available on the WUOC website.
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