Simone Niggli-Luder

Simone Niggli-Luder in 2006.
Personal information
Nationality	Swiss
Born	(1978-01-09)9 January 1978 (age 48) Burgdorf
Alma mater	University of Bern
Years active	1988 - 2013
Sport
Sport	Orienteering
Club	OLVHindelbank
Medal record Women'sorienteering Representing Switzerland World Championships 2001 Tampere Long 2003 Rapperswil-Jona Sprint 2003 Rapperswil-Jona Middle 2003 Rapperswil-Jona Long 2003 Rapperswil-Jona Relay 2004 Västerås Sprint 2005 Aichi Sprint 2005 Aichi Middle 2005 Aichi Long 2005 Aichi Relay 2006 Aarhus Middle 2006 Aarhus Long 2007 Kyiv Sprint 2007 Kyiv Middle 2009 Miskolc Long 2010 Trondheim Sprint 2010 Trondheim Long 2012 Lausanne Sprint 2012 Lausanne Long 2012 Lausanne Relay 2013 Vuokatti Sprint 2013 Vuokatti Middle 2013 Vuokatti Long 2006 Aarhus Sprint 2010 Trondheim Middle 2001 Tampere Sprint 2006 Aarhus Relay 2007 Kyiv Long 2009 Miskolc Middle 2009 Miskolc Sprint 2013 Vuokatti Relay World Games 2005 Duisburg Middle 2005 Duisburg Relay World Cup 2002 WC Overall 2004 WC Overall 2005 WC Overall 2006 WC Overall 2007 WC Overall 2009 WC Overall 2010 WC Overall 2012 WC Overall 2013 WC Overall 2000 WC Overall European Championships 2002 Sümeg Classic 2004 Roskilde Sprint 2004 Roskilde Long 2006 Otepää Sprint 2006 Otepää Long 2010 Primorsko Middle 2010 Primorsko Long 2012 Falun Sprint 2012 Falun Middle 2012 Falun Long 2000 Truskavets Short 2002 Sümeg Relay 2006 Otepää Relay 2010 Primorsko Sprint 2010 Primorsko Relay Nordic Championships 2007 Bornholm Middle 2007 Bornholm Long 2001 Mikkeli Classic 2005 Notodden Sprint 2005 Notodden Middle 2005 Notodden Long 2007 Bornholm Relay 2005 Notodden Relay Junior World Championships 1997 Leopoldsburg Classic 1996 Govora Relay 1997 Leopoldsburg Relay 1998 Reims Relay

Simone Niggli-Luder (born 9 January 1978) is aSwissorienteering athlete who has twice won (in 2003 and 2005) all four women's competitions at theworld championships.^{[citation needed]} She is widely seen as one of the greatest orienteers of all time.

Born as Simone Luder, she grew up inBurgdorf in theCanton of Bern. She studiedbiology at theUniversity of Bern, where she graduated in 2003. That same year, she married Matthias Niggli, also a Swiss orienteering athlete. They currently live inMünsingen nearBern and inUlricehamn,Sweden.^{[citation needed]}

She began competing in orienteering early on, joining the Swiss club OLVHindelbank; at the age of ten, she participated in her first competition. Since then, herpalmarès has been impressive: she won a gold medal at the junior world championships in 1997, has been 20 times Swiss champion, won theFinnish championships once and the Swedish championships nine times, has won the world cup five times, and won seven gold medals at European championships and a total of 23 gold medals at world championships.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, she won all four women's competitions of the world championships held atRapperswil in Switzerland (sprint, middle, and long distance, and— together withBirgitte Wolf andVroni König-Salmi— the relay). She managed to repeat this extraordinary feat two years later at the world championships inAichi,Japan.^{[citation needed]}

At the European Championships in 2006 inOtepää,Estonia, she won gold in the sprint and long distance competitions, and finished fifth in the middle distance competition. The Swiss team finished second in the relay, beaten only by the Finnish team. At the world championships 2007 inKyiv,Ukraine, she again won gold on the middle and sprint distances and finished third on the long distance, behind two Finnish athletes who shared first place.^{[citation needed]}

Niggli-Luder took time off from competitive orienteering in 2008 to give birth to her first child and again in 2011, twins. She made a successful return to the international orienteering scene in 2009 by winning bronze medals in the middle and sprint distances at the World Orienteering Championships inMiskolc,Hungary, and the gold medal in the long distance. At the World Championships 2013 atVuokatti, Finland, she won all three single competitions (sprint, middle, and long distance) and finished third in the team relay event (together withSara Luescher andJudith Wyder).^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, she spent one year in Finland, running for the Finnish clubTurun Suunnistajat, and won the Finnish championship. She ran for the Swedish club Ulricehamns OK after July 2003. In September 2013, Niggli-Luder announced that she was retiring from elite orienteering at the end of the year, after the last World Cup race in New Zealand. Niggli holds over 60 World Cup race victories.^{[citation needed]}

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