Orienteering News

I would like to drop a few lines about the sport of orienteering.
This year there was Nordic-Baltic Deaf Orienteering Championships
in Parnu, in Estonia.
In my opinion the best Deaf sportsman in orienteering is Tomas Kuzminskis from Lithuania.
He is at a level like the hearing, as he is a three-time champion of Nordic-Baltic Deaf Orienteering Championship and won a gold medal at 2001 Deaflympics in Rome and 2000 European Orienteering Championship in Hungary!
My wish is that deaf o-runners from many continents will participate at the 2005 Deaflympics in Melbourne and also at 2009 Deaflympics in Taipei. That could make the competition more exciting and interesting. And hopefully it will raise the standard of the sport. For further training and preparations for the 2005 Deaflympics athletes should participate often in competitions. There will also be international deaf orienteering competitions in Europe like Copenhagen (Denmark) and Kiev (Ukraine). 
I´ve made my own homepage on deaf orienteering.
Welcome to visit: http://home.tiscali.dk/marekmir.
Here you can see results from Nordic-Baltic Deaf Orienteering Championship etc.
You can find a calendar on future competitions including championships on this website.

I encourage national deaf sports federations to consider very soon about hosting the 2006 World Deaf Orienteering Championship..

See you in Melbourne!

Marek Mir-Mackiewicz
CISS-Deaflympics TD-Orienteering