New Zealand's Marquita Gelderman missed the bronze medal in the sprint event at the world mountain-bike orienteering championships by 22 seconds in Poland today.
Gelderman also finished fourth at the 2005 championships in the middle distance event.
Leading sprint event results-
Women: Hana Bajtosova (Slovakia) 21min 04sec 1, Michaela Gigon (Austria) 21:08 2, Martina Tichovska (Czech Republic) 21:43 3. Also: MARQUITA GELDERMAN (NZ) 22:05 4, EMILY WALL (NZ) 27:43 36, KATH COPLAND (NZ) dnf.
Men: Lasse Brun Pedersen (Denmark) 19:43 1, Jiri Hradil (Czech Republic) 20:16 2, Tonis Erm (Estonia) 20:19 3. Also: CHRIS FORNE (NZ) 25:47 45, GREG BARBOUR (NZ) 26:30 49.
Junior women: Tatiana Repina (Russia) 17:35 1, Hana Hancikova (Czech Republic) 18:16 2, Natalia Tysova (Slovakia) 18:43 3. Also: GEORGIA WHITLA (NZ) dnf.
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