Matthias Merz
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Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1984-02-01) 1 February 1984 (age 40) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Orienteering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthias Merz (born 1 February 1984) is a Swiss orienteering competitor, winner of the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Long distance, and also earned a silver medal on the Sprint distance in the same championship. He has a bronze medal from the 2005 Relay Championships in Aichi, Japan, as member of the Swiss winning team.[1] When Merz won the bronze medal in the middle distance at the World Championships in Miskolc in 2009, he joined countryman Daniel Hubmann as the only two men to have ever medaled in all four orienteering disciplines at the World Championships.
He on 30 December 2007, he was ranked no. 2 on the IOF (International Orienteering Federation) World Ranking.[2]
References
- ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on December 31, 2007)
- ^ IOF World Ranking – Matthias Merz Archived 2008-01-06 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 31 December 2007)
External links
- Matthias Merz at the International Orienteering Federation
- Matthias Merz at World of O
- Matthias Merz at the International World Games Association
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- 1966: Åge Hadler
- 1968: Kalle Johansson
- 1970: Stig Berge
- 1972: Åge Hadler
- 1974: Bernt Frilén
- 1976: Egil Johansen
- 1978: Egil Johansen
- 1979: Øyvin Thon
- 1981: Øyvin Thon
- 1983: Morten Berglia
- 1985: Kari Sallinen
- 1987: Kent Olsson
- 1989: Petter Thoresen
- 1991: Jörgen Mårtensson
- 1993: Allan Mogensen
- 1995: Jörgen Mårtensson
- 1997: Petter Thoresen
- 1999: Bjørnar Valstad
- 2001: Jørgen Rostrup
- 2003: Thomas Bührer
- 2004: Bjørnar Valstad
- 2005: Andrey Khramov
- 2006: Jani Lakanen
- 2007: Matthias Merz
- 2008: Daniel Hubmann
- 2009: Daniel Hubmann
- 2010: Olav Lundanes
- 2011: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2012: Olav Lundanes
- 2013: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2014: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2015: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2016: Olav Lundanes
- 2017: Olav Lundanes
- 2018: Olav Lundanes
- 2019: Olav Lundanes
- 2021: Kasper Fosser
- 2023: Kasper Fosser
- 1991: Petr Kozák
- 1993: Petter Thoresen
- 1995: Yuri Omeltchenko
- 1997: Janne Salmi
- 1999: Jørgen Rostrup
- 2001: Pasi Ikonen
- 2003: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2004: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2005: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2006: Holger Hott Johansen
- 2007: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2008: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2009: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2010: Carl Waaler Kaas
- 2011: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2012: Edgars Bertuks
- 2013: Leonid Novikov
- 2014: Olav Lundanes
- 2015: Daniel Hubmann
- 2016: Matthias Kyburz
- 2017: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2018: Eskil Kinneberg
- 2019: Olav Lundanes
- 2021: Matthias Kyburz
- 2023: Matthias Kyburz
- 2001: Jimmy Birklin
- 2003: Jamie Stevenson
- 2004: Niclas Jonasson
- 2005: Emil Wingstedt
- 2006: Emil Wingstedt
- 2007: Thierry Gueorgiou
- 2008: Andrey Khramov
- 2009: Andrey Khramov
- 2010: Matthias Müller
- 2011: Daniel Hubmann
- 2012: Matthias Kyburz
- 2013: Mårten Boström
- 2014: Søren Bobach
- 2015: Jonas Leandersson
- 2016: Jerker Lysell
- 2017: Daniel Hubmann
- 2018: Daniel Hubmann
- 2021: Isac von Krusenstierna
- 2022: Kasper Fosser
- 2024: Martin Regborn
- 2022: Matthias Kyburz
- 2024: Riccardo Rancan
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