The athletes competing at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Northern Italy had another warm race day on Sunday morning’s individual Sprint.
Today’s race took place in the small picturesque Dolomite town of Cembra and featured a course that constantly offered route choice-challenges in the asymmetrical streets between the stone houses.
Jonas Fenne Ingierd (NOR) and Seline Sannwald (SUI) completed the task the fastest in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively and became Junior World Champions.
Jonas Fenne Ingierd on his way to the JWOC gold. Photo: Eszter Kocsik / JWOC 2025
Ingierd was absolutely superb in the M20 and won by a full 23 seconds ahead of Tomasz Rzenca (POL) and the Czechia’s Daniel Bolehovsky, who shared the silver medal after the 3.3 kilometers in the hilly streets.
In the women’s class, Sannwald was in the lead almost the entire way around the women’s 2.6 kilometers and won with a time that was three seconds faster than compatriot Kati Hotz.
Seline Sannwald at full speed on the cobblestones in Cembra. Photo: Eszter Kocsik / JWOC 2025
Two seconds behind Hotz was Czechia’s Lucie Dittrichova, who won gold in yesterday’s Sprint Relay with Bolehovsky and the Czech team.
Find results, GPS tracking and links to the TV production on the JWOC live page
There is no time to rest for the JWOC athletes, who will already be running the long distance in the hilly forest terrain of Fornace on Monday morning.
The first start is at 09:00 CEST (UTC +2) and almost six hours of quality broadcast from the forests will begin on IOF TV from 10:30.