Marc Lauenstein (born September 15, 1980 in Cormondréche, Neuchâtel) is a Swiss orienteering

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and runner. He received a silver medal on the long distance at the 2005

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 2 ...

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, and again in Aarhus in 2006. He earned a bronze medal in 2005 as a member of the Swiss

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.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on March 7, 2008) Lauenstein won the

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in 2009 at the Kaisermarathon. He won the Sierre-Zinal race in 2013, the

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in 2014 and the

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in 2015. In 2015, Lauenstein became the first runner to complete the Otter Run on South Africa's Otter Trail in under four hours. He won the

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in 2016 in a time not far outside the long-standing course record, despite snowy conditions on the peaks. Later the same year, he won Giir di Mont from

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on a route altered by bad weather and followed this with a victory at the Matterhorn Ultraks race in the Skyrunner World Series.Matterhorn Ultraks 46k 2016 Race Summary and Images– Skyrunner® World Series.
iancorless.com, 20 Aug 2016.

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* 1980 births Living people Swiss orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Swiss sky runners World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships winners People from Neuchâtel District Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel {{Switzerland-orienteering-bio-stub