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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1988-06-25)25 June 1988 (age 37) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Orienteering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Judith Wyder (born 25 June 1988) is a Swissorienteering andski orienteering competitor and runner. Her achievements include gold medals at theWorld Orienteering Championships and theEuropean Orienteering Championships, both individually and with the Swiss relay team.
As a junior, Wyder won World Championship medals in both orienteering[1] and ski orienteering.
She won a bronze medal in the middle distance at the 2011World Orienteering Championships inChambéry, a gold medal in the relay at the 2012World Orienteering Championships inLausanne and a bronze medal in the relay at the 2013World Orienteering Championships inVuokatti.
Wyder had a very strong start to the 2014 season, becoming the dominant Swiss female orienteer after the retirement ofSimone Niggli. She dominated theEuropean Orienteering Championships inPortugal where she won gold in both the sprint and in the long distance. She also won the World Cup sprint race ahead of WOC inItaly – a very technical sprint inImatra,Finland. After that she achieved three gold medals and a bronze medal in the 2014World Orienteering Championships inAsiago-Lavarone showing her incredible talent.[2]
In 2017, she took a break from competing in Orienteering in order to have her first child.[3]
In 2018, Wyder won a bronze medal in the sprint distance[4] and a silver medal in the sprint relay[5] at the 2018World Orienteering Championship inRiga.
Wyder began to focus ontrail running andskyrunning in 2019. She set a new course record at theDoloMyths Run,[6] finished second atSierre-Zinal[7] and won theRing of Steall Skyrace, also in a course record.[8] She then won the Annapurna Trail Marathon which gave her the overall women's victory in the Golden Trail World Series.[9]
Following the 2019 season, pregnant with her second child, Wyder suffered a stroke on Christmas Day following severe headaches. Wyder returned to training following the birth of her second child in June 2020, but has a permanent spot on her right eye where she is unable to see, which has affected her map-reading for orienteering, and has memory problems which were not previously present.[10]
She won silver (individual and team) in theTrail Short during theIAU Trail World Championships 2023.[11]
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