Johanna "Hanny" Allston (born 12 February 1986) is an

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orienteer Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a ...

. Johanna Allston, or Hanny Allston as many know her, won the 2006

Junior World Orienteering Championships The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) are an annual orienteering competition. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition. Representative countries must ...

for the long distance event. She won by a near-record margin of 4 minutes and 38 seconds. She is the first

woman

ever to win a

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at a

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level.World of O Runners – Hanny Allston
(Retrieved on 29 June 2008 ) When she won her

it was her last year of eligibility to run in the Junior World Championships. At the 2006

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 20 ...

she claimed

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in the Sprint event. This is the best result by an

in the history of the event and she became the first person to win both Senior and Junior World Orienteering Championship titles in the same year. Hanny currently resides in

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where she runs a retail outlet in the CBD selling outdoor sports equipment and life coaching services. In early 2015, she won the

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in a female course record of 3h 34m 50s.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allston, Johanna 1986 births Living people Australian orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games gold medalists World Games silver medalists Competitors at the 2009 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering 21st-century Australian people Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists

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