Luise Kärger from KIT new orienteering university champion

Traditionally over Ascension Day the German University Championships in Orienteering took place again this year, this year hosted by Saarland University. On the slope directly east of the campus in Saarbrücken, difficult courses had to be mastered on Thursday, which demanded a wide range of orienteering techniques, from green posts to very physical passages and difficult high forest posts.

Fortunately, Luise Kärger from KIT coped best with these courses in the women's category and can now call herself the new German University Champion. With a time of 52:28 on the 6-kilometer course as the crow flies and 240 meters of altitude, she beat Myrea Schröter (TU Dresden) and Esther Doetsch (University of Münster) by just 16 seconds. Janeta Turka from the HSTW was able to round off the result from Karlsruhe's point of view with a very good 6th place. The men were less successful, Georg Hinkel finished 14th on the 8.6 kilometer course with 325 meters of elevation gain.

The following Friday, unfortunately without Luise Kärger and Andreas Luz, was a rather black day from Karlsruhe's point of view. After the first runner started very well, the first men's relay team and the first women's relay team were both in 4th place, but this changed very quickly, when both relays had thrown themselves out of the race with the second leg. A wrong fork and, especially annoying, a missing end post ruined the medal hopes. This was especially annoying for the women's relay team, as Lena Stortz had come in third at the end.