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Johanna Allston

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Johanna Allston, known as Hanny Allston, is an Australian orienteer who won the long distance at the 2006 Junior World Orienteering Championships by a near-record margin of 4 minutes and 38 seconds, becoming the first Australian woman orienteer to win a gold medal at world championship level. At the 2006 World Orienteering Championships she won the sprint, the best result by an Australian in the history of the event, and she became the first person to win both senior and junior world titles in the same year. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania, where she runs a retail outlet for outdoor sports equipment, and in 2015 she won the Six Foot Track Marathon in a female course record.

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Birth Year
1986 1
Gender
Female 1
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Orienteering, Sports
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    (born 12 February 1986)
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    She is the first Australian woman orienteer ever to win a gold medal at a World Championship level.
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    is an Australian orienteer
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    is an Australian orienteer
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