Jannis Bonek

Jannis Bonek is an Austrian orienteering competitor, born in 1999 in Vienna. He won a bronze medal in the middle distance at the 2023 World Orienteering Championships, the first medal ever won by an Austrian man at the world orienteering championships. His parents and grandparents are also orienteers, and he first tried orienteering as a toddler, completing his first courses unaccompanied at the age of eight or nine. He spent half a year in Uppsala at a specialized orienteering school, has been a professional orienteer since at least 2019 and runs for OK Linne in club events.