Discussion: Orienteer in Olympic marathon?

The name of the guy who finished in 75th place in the Olympic marathon today, Marcel Tschopp from Liechtenstein, sounded familiar. He ran WOC this year!

Marathon results: http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/men-mara...
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Tschopp

I think that's pretty cool!
Are there any other people who have run WOC and Olympics ever? (I don't think Peter Snell ever ran WOC, right? And neither Hanny Allston nor Mårten Boström have qualified for their Olympic teams?)

Also, I love the fact that this is a real thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_of_the_Small_St...

John Disley - WOC in 1960 (49th), bronze medal in 1952 Helsinki (steeplechase)

Gordon Pirie NZ orienteer (1978 and 1979 World Championships) and Olympic Silver medallist (5000m, Melbourne 1956)

Martin Dent who finished 28th yesterday did a fair amount of domestic orienteering in Australia some years back but his technique wasn't going to get him to WOC.

What about American Rick Oliver in biathalon? I know he was an assistant coach for the olympic biathalon team in 2002 and I think he made the team (or at least was in the running) in the 80's or early 90's. I'm also not sure about his orienteering if he ever went to WOC or Ski-WOC. I'm pretty sure that he at least did Ski-O World Cup. Anyone know for sure?

I believe Rick missed being selected to the US Olympic biathlon team by a few seconds one year (Nagano??).

Wasn't there an Irish skier who went to both the Olympics and World Ski-O?

Anders Garderud? Steeplechase gold in Montreal. Did he go to WOC?
Kjell Eric Staal? WOC in the late 1970's and was also a world class marathoner.

Rory Morrish from Ireland did do Winter Olympics (one of the x-country skiing disciplines) and Ski-O.

In 1994 Marcel also ran JWOC for Switzerland (he is double citizen).

He signed up for the national race and swiss champs next weekend (M35). I wonder if he shows up...

In the near-misses department, Carsten Jorgensen was in contention to run the 10,000m in Sydney in 2000 but missed out (through injury if I recall correctly). He did run a European Championships for Denmark in the 10k.

http://www.thelegend.co.nz/arthur_lydiard.php
NZ Orienteer John Robinson, mentioned here but not sure which event.
John still competes very successfully in M75?
Some times can be found here
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3aloOS-Bz...
That's him (Robbie) with the 2:15.03 marathon time!

Ivar Formo. Bronze in relay 1974 WOC, gold in 50 km 1976 olympics (among other skiing medals.)

Anita Liepina participate at two Olympics as race-walker and she has multiple World Rogaining Championship titles.

Mike Rascher, gold medalist is men's 8 rowing in Barcelona 1992, is an active orienteer in the Vancouver club now. And competing at the COCs this week in Alberta.

Race walking is for those who cant cut it running.

Rogaining is for those who cant cut it orienteering.

They dont count.

And Ronny is for those who can't cut it being Sammy.

ps- that was a quick jaunt between New Caledonia and Mali, no?

Orienteering is also for those who can't cut it in running.

And running is for those who can't cut it in real sports

;)

I used to find race walking so much harder than running.

Hey! Be nice to Ronny. Bamako has more air pollution than any other city I've ever been to, must be hard training like a serious athlete there.

"Gordon Pirie, NZ orienteer"... Or as we call him, Gordon Pirie, British long distance runner, former 3000m & 5000m record holder.

Marcel Tschopp qualified under the universality clause, which would explain his times.

@Ronny - current men world records in race-walking for 20K is 1:17:16 and 3:34:14 for 50K. I am pretty sure that if some of race-walkers put the same effort into running they'd be up there with the best runners. After retiring from competitive race-walking Anita Liepina won couple marathons, last one at age of 40 with time that would put her in top-100 of Boston marathon.