Michaela Gigon (born 21 March 1977) is an

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n mountain bike orienteer and several times world champion. She has competed at all

World MTB Orienteering Championships The World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships is the official event for awarding World Champion titles in mountain bike orienteering Mountain bike orienteering (MTB-O or MTBO) is an orienteering endurance racing sport on a mountain bike ...

from 2002 to 2010, won individual gold medals in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010, and in relay in 2009.

Mountain bike orienteering career

Gigon competed at the very first

in Fontainebleau in 2002, where she placed fifth in the sprint and eighth in the long distance. At the 2004 World Championships in Ballarat in 2004 she won the middle distance ahead of Laure Coupat and Belinda Allison, placed seventh in the long distance, and won a silver medal in the relay behind the Finnish team. At the 2005 World Championships in

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she won the middle distance and placed fourth in the long distance. At the 2006 World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in

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she won the middle distance for the third time, placed seventh in the long distance, and fourth in the relay. At the 2007 World Championships in

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she won a gold medal in the long distance, a silver medal in the sprint and placed ninth in the middle distance, and won a bronze medal in the relay. At the 2008

in Ostróda, she won a silver medal in the sprint, a silver medal in the middle distance, and placed sixth in the long distance. She participated on the Austrian relay team which won a bronze medal. At

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in 2009 she won a bronze medal in the sprint, a silver in the middle distance, and placed fifth in the long distance. The Austrian relay team won gold medals for the first time, with Elisabeth Hohenwarter, Sonja Zinkl and Gigon on the team. At the 2010 World Championships in

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she won a gold medal in the middle distance, placed sixth in the long distance, and eight in the relay.

Orienteering career

Gigon also competes in

foot orienteering Foot orienteering (usually referred to as simply Orienteering or FootO for short) is the oldest formal orienteering sport, and the one with the most "starts" per year. Usually, a FootO is a timed race in which participants start at staggered in ...

at an international level. At the 2008 World Orienteering Championships in

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she placed 31st in the long distance, and participated on the Austrian relay team which placed 22nd.

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Michaela Gigon
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