Carsten Jørgensen (born 25 October 1970) is a

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orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a ...

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and World champion.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 24 January 2008) He won a gold medal in the 1997

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with the Danish Relay team. He received a bronze medal in the 1995 World Orienteering Championships in

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(classic distance). He has been quite successful in

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competitions. He finished fourth at the

1996 European Cross Country Championships The 3rd European Cross Country Championships were held at Charleroi in Belgium on 15 December 1996. Jon Brown took the title in the men's competition and Sara Wedlund won the women's race. Results Men individual 9.65 km 100 runners finished ...

and went on to take the gold medal at the 1997 edition. He won the senior race at the

Nordic Cross Country Championships The Nordic Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition that is contested between the Nordic countries. The championships are generally held in mid-November and the host nation rotates every year between ...

consecutively in 1997 and 1998. He competed in the European Championships for a third time in

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, finishing in fifth place. He was the 1999 winner of the men's race at the Eurocross in

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.Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (28 February 2009)
Eurocross 10.2 km (men) + 5.3 km (women)

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. Retrieved on 2010-03-01.

National merits

Jørgensen is 17 times Danish Orienteering Champion (various disciplines/distances). He has represented Denmark 59 times, on the Danish National Team. He set the Danish record in the

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in 1998, and Danish record in the

half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcu ...

, also in 1998.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jorgensen, Carsten Living people 1970 births Danish male long-distance runners Danish orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists European Cross Country Championships winners Competitors at the 2001 World Games

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