Thierry Gueorgiou

Thierry " Tero " Gueorgiou ( born March 30, 1979 in Saint- Étienne ) is currently the world's best orienteers in the middle distance. On this track, he won seven world titles so far (as of 2011 ). He lives in St. Etienne, where he studied biology.

Career

In 1997 he started at age 18 for the first time at the World Championships. He finished in 50th place in the middle distance races and ended with the French squadron twelfth. In 2002 he succeeded the jump for the first time in a World Cup race ( in Norwegian Røros Sprint ) by a second place winners' podium. From then on, his career went uphill: 2003 won Thierry Gueorgiou in Rapperswil his first World Championship gold medal. It now began his years of dominance in the middle distance.

At the World Championships in 2005 in Aichi, Japan Gueorgiou became the third consecutive World Cup over the middle distance, thus achieving something that had still managed no male orienteers before him, comparable only to the successes of the exceptional athletes Simone Niggli and Annichen Kringstad. At the World Games 2005 in Duisburg Gueorgiou could also win.

2006 ended the World Cup winning streak over the middle distance. In Aarhus, Denmark, he missed finishing fourth to jump on the podium. In the other races he failed to win a medal. Nevertheless, he was the overall World Cup, according to which, inter alia, all three World Cup races in the French Auvergne was able to win over the three different distances first time in 2006.

In 2007 he became double world champion in Kiev after his victories in the sprint and middle distance races. In the victory over the 6.2km stretch, he referred to Finnish Tero Fohr a good two minutes on the second place. In 2008, he won both the World and European champion on the middle range. In 2009 he was involved in the accident of Sweden Martin Johansson. When relay race itself Johansson was seriously injured in the thigh. The Norwegian Anders Nordberg, the Czech Michal Smola and Gueorgiou broke the race to help together. While Nordberg to help get to the target was supplied Gueorgiou and Smola Johansson's wound with the shirt the Gueorgiou wore. Then they brought Johansson to a road, where he was then cared for by a doctor fetched Nordberg. Gueorgiou 2009 won his sixth World Cup title on the middle distance, but in 2010 remained without a win at major championships. At the European Championships in Primorsko he was only eleventh, at the World Championships in Trondheim, he won bronze on the medium and the long distance. He screwed his world championship balance on now seven gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

Gueorgiou already won twenty French title. National he runs for the club NO Saint -Étienne, internationally he starts for the Finnish club Kalevan Rasti. With this elite club he won in 2004, 2005 and 2007, the Jukola, one of the largest relay races in the world, held in Finland every June.

Achievements

World Championships ( WOC )

10x Gold ( 1x 2003, 1x 2004, 1x 2005, 2x 2007, 1x 2008, 1x 2009, 3x 2011), 2x Silver ( 1x 2005, 1x 2009), 3x Bronze (1x 2003 2x 2010)

European Championships (EOC )

3x Gold (2004, 2006, 2008 )

World Student Championships

5x Gold ( 2000, 2002 )

Others

Thierry Gueorgiou is in Scandinavia often Terje Gundersen (especially in Norway) or Tero Kettunen ( Finland ) called. Hence also the name of his website, tero.fr. He is 1.93 meters tall and weighs 74 kg.