Marc Lauenstein (born September 15, 1980 in Cormondréche,

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

) is a

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orienteering 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 s ...

competitor and runner. He received a

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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 20 ...

in Aichi, and again in

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in 2006. He earned a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

in 2005 as a member of the

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

World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge The World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (from 2004 up to 2014 the name was World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge), is an annual international mountain running competition organised by the World Mountain Running Association ( ...

in 2009 at the Kaisermarathon. He won the

Sierre-Zinal The Sierre-Zinal race is an annual mountain running race that takes place in the Swiss canton of Valais each August. It is also known as the race of five 4000ers ("La course des cinq 4000"), as five peaks over four thousand meters are visible alon ...

race in 2013, the

Pikes Peak Marathon The Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon is a trail running competition that begins at the base of Pikes Peak, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and climbs over 7,815 feet (2382 m) to the top of the 14,115 foot (4302 m) peak. Since 1956, the event takes pl ...

in 2014 and the

Marathon du Mont Blanc The Marathon du Mont Blanc (Mont Blanc Marathon) is an annual marathon distance (42.195 km) alpine trail running event held in Chamonix, France. The Marathon du Mont Blanc race is the titular event but the name also refers to the group of lon ...

in 2015. In 2015, Lauenstein became the first runner to complete the Otter Run on South Africa's

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in under four hours. He won the

Three Peaks Race The Three Peaks Race is a fell race held annually on the last weekend in April, starting and finishing in Horton in Ribblesdale. The course traverses the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The present distance is about 23 miles (37 km). The first kn ...

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 The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...

.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