Alain Berger (orienteer)

Alain Berger (born January 13, 1970 ) is a former Swiss orienteer and mountain bike orienteer .

career

Born in French- speaking Switzerland, Berger won his first gold medal on his World Cup debut in 1991 in Czechoslovakia in the Swiss relay with Thomas Bührer , Urs Flühmann and Christian Aebersold . Four years later, the Swiss achieved another season triumph with Berger, Daniel Hotz , Aebersold and Bührer. At the 1995 World Championships in Detmold , he achieved eighth place on the short distance, his best individual result to date. The following year he was fifth in the World Cup. At his last World Championships in Scotland in 1999, he won the bronze medal on the long distance behind the two Norwegians Bjørnar Valstad and Carl Henrik Bjørseth .

In the following years he devoted himself increasingly to mountain bike orienteering and won a total of four medals in this discipline at the first two world championships in 2002 and 2004, including gold in 2004 on the long distance.

Berger won the Swiss Orienteering Championship in 1998 on the short distance, 1991, 1994, 1998 on the long distance, 1991 in the night orienteering, 1993 with the relay and 1999 with the team of CO Chenau . Berger started internationally for the clubs Nydalens SK and Bækkelagets SK . With the latter he won in 1999 at the Jukola .

Placements

Orienteering

WM Short Long Season 1991 Mariánské Lázně 19th 1. 1993 West Point 33. 1995 Detmold 8th. 29 1. 1997 Grimstad 29 32. 5. 1999 Inverness 11. 3. 4th

Overall World Cup 1990 62. 1992 45. 1994 25th 1996 5. 1998 33.

JOWM Short Long Season 1990 Älvsbyn 11. 6th

Mountain bike orienteering

WM Short Long Season 2002 Fontainebleau 2. 3. 6th 2004 Ballarat 2. 1.

Overall World Cup 2000 41. 2001 8th. 2003 42.

Web links

• Alain Berger World of O Runners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National team 1998: Alain Berger Swiss Orienteering Association