Grant Bluett

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Grant Bluett is a retired Australian orienteer . In 2001 he won a gold medal in the individual run at the World Games .

After participating in the Junior World Championships in Jyväskylä in 1992 , he ran for the first time in 1993 at the World Championships of the elite. In 1999 he was third in the overall ranking of the Park World Tour behind the Dane Allan Mogensen and the Czech Rudolf Ropek . The greatest successes came after the turn of the millennium, when he reached eleven and eighth place in the sprint at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships and finished sixth with the relay, including Troy de Haas . At the 2001 World Games he achieved the greatest triumph of his career. In the middle distance race he won the gold medal with around 38 seconds ahead of Tore Sandvik from Norway. The Australian mixed relay also came in fifth, just 15 seconds behind the bronze medalists from Sweden. In 2003 he finished second in the overall standings of the Park World Tour behind Thierry Gueorgiou from France.

During his career, Bluett lived in Sweden for seven years, where he started for the clubs Strängnäs-Malmby OL and Malungs OK . At the end of 2005, Bluett ended his international career. However, he continued to compete in races in Australia and became oceanic sprint champion in 2011.

Placements

World championships sprint medium Long Season
1993 West Point 11.
1995 Detmold 35. 57. 11.
1997 Grimstad 28. dsq 11.
1999 Inverness 10.
2001 Tampere 11. 30th 17th 6th
2003 Rapperswil 8th. 47. 9.
2004 Västerås 18th 17th nq 10.
2005 Aichi 28. nq 15th
World Games sprint medium Season
2001 Akita 1. 5.
2005 Duisburg 12. 13.
Junior World Championship sprint medium Long Season
1992 Jyväskylä 19th 15th 11.
Overall World Cup
1994 65.
1996 41.
1998 30th
2000 56.
2002 44.
2004 39.
2005 95.

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