Vanessa followed up her very good 13th place in the long distance World Cup event in Spain with an even better performance in the middle distance event on Sunday finishing an excellent 9th in 38:50, only 2:40 down on the winner Swede Lena Eliasson.

This is a great result for Vanessa and her splits indicate a very consistent performance with no red controls. Unfortunately Vanessa was not wearing a GPS so we cannot follow her perfomance via the live tracking the organisers used.

Vanessa commented after the weekend “It was a great weekend, the terrain was tricky and tough how I like it, and it was just heaps of fun to enjoy orienteering so much again and do a decent job of it. Somehow I wasn’t even sore or tired today after the long. am now though” (Courtesy of Attackpoint)

Well done Vanessa, a great weekend of orienteering. Vanessa will continue her international competition along with Felicity Brown, Evan Barr and Julian Dent next week in the European Orienteering Championships to be held in Portugal.