Background
Born as Simone Luder, she grew up in Burgdorf in the Canton of Bern.
athletics competitor orienteer
Born as Simone Luder, she grew up in Burgdorf in the Canton of Bern.
She studied biology at the University of Bern, where she graduated in 2003.
They currently live in Münsingen near Bern and in Ulricehamn, Sweden. She began competing in orienteering early on, joining the Swiss club OLV Hindelbank. At the age of ten, she participated in her first competition.
She managed to repeat this extraordinary feat two years later at the world championships in Aichi, Japan.
The Swiss team finished second in the relay, beaten only by the Finnish team She made a successful return to the international orienteering scene in 2009 by winning bronze medals in the middle and sprint distances at the World Orienteering Championships in Miskolc, Hungary, and the gold medal in the long distance.
Since July 2003, she starts for the Swedish club Ulricehamns Oklahoma. In September 2013, Niggli-Luder announced that she was retiring from elite orienteering at the end of the year, after the last World Cup race in New Zealand, where she will fight for a last World Cup victory before retirement She makes this retirement after 23 World (also Wonders) Of Chiropractic gold medals and over 60 World Cup race wins.