Matthias Merz
 Merz at WOC 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- 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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- 1984 births
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- Swiss male orienteers
- Swiss foot orienteers
- World Orienteering Championships medalists
- Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists
- World Games gold medalists for Switzerland
- World Games medalists in orienteering
- Medalists at the 2005 World Games
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