Robert Merl

Robert Merl is an Austrian orienteering competitor who was born on 5 June 1991 and became a junior world champion in the sport. His junior title came in the middle distance at the 2011 Junior World Orienteering Championships. As a senior he competed at the 2012 World Orienteering Championships, where he qualified for the sprint final and placed 21st. At the World Games in 2013 he won a bronze medal in the mixed relay as part of an Austrian team with Gernot Kerschbaumer, Ursula Kadan and Anna Nilsson Simkovics. His record spans the junior and senior levels of foot orienteering, the sport of navigating between control points with a map and compass.