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orienteering
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competitor
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and world champion.
Graham is a member of the Great Britain Orienteering Squad and also runs for IFK Lidingö SOK. In 2004 Graham first made the senior World Champs team. His first notable successes came in 2006 where he won both the Sprint and the Overall title at the Jan Kjellstrom orienteering festival. He has since won another title in both the Sprint and the Overall.
He received a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 2008
World Orienteering Championships
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in
Olomouc
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, together with
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Graham started orienteering before he could even walk, when his father would carry him! Graham attended the
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. Graham did a masters at
Sheffield Hallam University
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and ran for Sheffield University Orienteering Club. In 2010 he was part of the winning JK and Harvester relay teams. Currently he runs for Forth Valley.
Gristwood became only the second man after Chris Hirst to win the
British Orienteering Championships
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1967 saw the first British Champion ...
four times in a row, between 2014 and 2017. He has also won the British Sprints twice, the British Middle once and the Night Championships a record seven times in a row.
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British orienteers
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* Alida Abola, Soviet Union
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