Edgars Bertuks
Edgars Bertuks (born 1 January 1985 in Alūksne, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian orienteers. In 2012, he won the world championship on the middle distance.
Bertuks debuted in 2006 at the European and World Championships of assets. For the first time in the international top he ran two years later at the European Championships in his native Latvia, when he finished seventh in the long distance, almost three and a half minutes behind the winner Dmitry Tsvetkov from Russia. At the world championships in the same year in the Czech Republic he came in the race over the middle distance on the ninth. 2009 benefited the Latvian Season with Mārtiņš Sirmais, Janis Krumins and Bertuks in a relay race of the World Championships in Miskolc, Hungary from the failure of several top teams as a result of an accident, the Swedish runner Martin Johansson. Bertuks ran as a cage rotor with a tight gap of four seconds, the squadron Finland Latvia season to fourth place.
In 2012 he was in Lausanne entirely surprising as 60th in the world rankings world champion middle distance. He is the first Latvian champion in orienteering. It was this success not an isolated case, he proved two days later at the finale of the long distance. Here he secured behind Lundanes Olav from Norway and Matthias Merz from Switzerland the bronze medal. In 2013 he repeated the third place on the long distance. The victory went to Thierry Gueorgiou from France ahead of the Finn Jani Lakanen.
Bertuks runs in Latvia for the OK Alūksne. In international competitions such as the Jukola it starts like his compatriot Mārtiņš Sirmais for Turun Metsänkävjät from the Finnish city of Turku.