Markus Puusepp (born March 6, 1986 in Võru) is a former

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

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 s ...

competitor and junior world champion. He became Junior World Champion in the ''

relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch ...

'' in Druskininkai in 2006, together with

Mihkel Järveoja Mihkel Järveoja (born 30 April 1986) is an Estonian orienteering competitor and junior world champion. He was born in Põlva. He became Junior World Champion in the ''relay'' in Druskininkai in 2006, together with Markus Puusepp and Timo ...

and Timo Sild.Junior World Orienteering Championships
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on July 8, 2008)
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on July 8, 2008) He received a

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in the ''long course'' at the same championship. He competed at the

2009 World Orienteering Championships The 2009 World Orienteering Championships, the 26th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Miskolc, Hungary, 16 –23 August 2009. The championships had eight events; sprint for men and women, middle distance for men and women, long di ...

in Miskolc, Hungary. He was the event director for

2017 World Orienteering Championships The 34th World Orienteering Championships were held in Tartu, Estonia in June/July 2017. The official name of the event is Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships 2017 after the title sponsor Nokian Tyres Nokian Tyres plc ( fi, Nokian Re ...

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

, Estonia.

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Markus Puusepp
at World of O Runners 1986 births Living people Estonian orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers Sportspeople from Võru Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Orienteering-bio-stub

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