Rhodri Buffett
Sport/Event: Orienteering, Cross country and Mountain Running
Date and Place of Birth: 1988, Abergavenny, Wales
Height: 5ft 9″
Weight: 58 kg
Date arrived at Team Bath: October 2006
Course of Study: Sports Engineering
Length of Course: 4 years
Clubs: British Orienteering Team
Occupation: Student/athlete
Biography:
When not at university he is based in South Wales. He has been skiing since he could stand on skis, and orienteering since five, but started taking orienteering more seriously when he joined the Welsh Junior Squad at 13, and has since represented GB at the Junior Worlds in Sweden in 2008, having missed the 2007 championships in Australia due to a stress fracture.
He took a year out of university for the 2008/2009 season, to aid the transition from Junior to Senior, and has since been selected to run the long distance race at the World Orienteering Championships in Hungary this August.
In previous years he has won the British U16 Mountain Running Championships, and represented Wales at both the Senior and Junior World Mountain Running Trophy. He is also the current World Winter Triathlon 20-24 Age Group World Champion, and was also selected to ski for GB at the World U23 Cross Country Ski Championships in 2009.
Competitive Record:
British U16 Mountain Running Championships 2003 – 1st
European Youth Orienteering Championships 2006 – Relay Silver
British Orienteering Championships 2006 – M18 1st
JK Orienteering Championships 2006 – M18 1st
Junior European Orienteering Championships 2006 – M18 Sprint 9th, Long 10th
JK Orienteering Championships 2007 – M20E 3rd
World Junior Mountain running Trophy 2006 – 37th
British Orienteering Championships 2008 – M20E 3rd
Junior World Orienteering Championships 2008 – Sprint 42nd, Middle 46th, Long 82nd, Relay, 13th
World Mountain running trophy 2008 – 106th
JK Orienteering Championships 2009 – M21E Sprint 2nd
World Winter Triathlon Age Group Championships 2009 – 20-24 age class 1st
World Orienteering Championships Long Qualifier 2009 – 21st in heat
