After her recent trip home, Laura Robertson is back in Europe, and running in a World Cup sprint round in Switzerland this weekend. She placed 30 out of 114 in the individual, 1:28 behind the winner. (Life is tough at the top!) Auckland's Penelope Salmon, at university in USA, was 74th and NZ's two men were 101 and 102. Results, maps and gps tracking are at https://orienteering.sport/event/orienteering-world-cup-round-1-6/sprint/

Laura led off Saturday's Mixed Relay, handing over just 1:06 behind the leader. The team finished 35th, 17th country after multiples are discounted. And she made the quarter-finals of the Knockout event. Which used a clover-leaf course design familiar to OHV and HVHS. The semi-finals had 3 very similar loops, and may have involved the "look at 3 maps for 20sec and choose one" method of splitting the six runners. While the final contained a phi-loop in which runners diverge/meet up, then run back through the middle and do the other alternative.