Josip Hanjš – gold medal in stenography (shorthand / speech capturing; mothertongue), Prague
International Federation for Information Processing
Internationale Föderation für Informationsverarbeitung
Fédération internationale pour le traitement de l’information
46th Intersteno Congress
Prague, 21-27 July, 2007
Mr. Josip Hanjš is employed at Croatian Chamber of Trade, Zagreb, as a professional stenographer.

awarding the gold medal for Mr. Josip Hanjš, Zagreb, Croatia
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Final Results
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| From ShorthandWorld: 497 SYLLABLES SCOOPS THE SHORTHAND INTERSTENO CROWN July 29, 2007
Taking notes in Croatian, Hanjs managed 497 syllables with 73 penalties. Compititors at the world championship event faced a 15-minute dictation exercise with the speed range increasing every five minutes. The highest placed English-language exponent was Emily Morris, who works as a Hansard reporter, who notched 15th place. Ms Morris, who entered the world of stenography 25 years ago and who records the debates in the House of Commons, got a syllable average of 269 with 32 penalties. Results Table for shorthand/speech capturing Name/ Language/ Syllables
1 Josip Hanjs (Croatia) Croatian: 497 2 Bernhard Gremmer (Germany) German: 367 3 Marco Hoffmann (Germany) German: 343 4 Éva Szilvia Horváth (Hungary) Hungarian 343 5 Judit Árvayné Dani (Hungary) Hungarian: 321 6 Torsten Semar (Germany) German: 321 7 Erika Vicai (Hungary) Hungarian: 321 8 Erika Mária Kanyár (Hungary) Hungarian: 321 9 Helena Janovská (Czech Republic) Czech: 310 10 Olaf Rörtgen (Germany) German: 299 11 Cecília Farkas (Hungary) Hungarian: 299 12 Beáta Barna (Hungary) Hungarian: 299 13 Anna Maria Marino (Italy) Italian: 319 14 Petra Dischinger (Germany) German: 299 15 Emily Morris (England) English: 269 … |
There were competitions in some other categories as well, for example in multilingual category. Boris Neubaer from Germany seems was able to compete in as many as 16 languages:
| Multilingual shorthand – SENIORS 1 Boris Neubauer Germany German 3 5 140 Bulgarian 3 31 140 Czech 3 46 140 Danish 3 47 140 Dutch 3 10 140 English 3 19 140 Esperanto 3 12 140 Finnish 3 8 140 French 3 14 140 Interlingua 3 41 140 Italian 3 22 140 Norwegian 3 45 140 Portugese 3 48 140 Russian 3 35 140 Spanish 3 31 140 Slovak 3 34 140 Swedish 3 31 140 2 Petra Dischinger Germany German B8 0 299 English 3 4 140 French 3 19 140 Spanish 3 39 140 3 … |

For Croatia especially interesting is the fact that there were as many as 161 competitors who were compiting via Internet, for their respective countries, and many of them (39!) have chosen the language indicated as HR (Croatian language). We show only the results of the first two competitors, out of 161.
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| …Als Einziger schaffte der Kroate Josip Hanjs die gesamte Ansage von 15 Minuten, was in seiner Sprache eine Leistung von 497 Silben bedeutet, womit er überlegen Weltmeister wurde. … Source: intersteno.de |
Formated for CROWN by prof.dr. Darko Žubrinić
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CROATIAN shorthand practitioner Josip Hanjs has taken the gold medal in the senior World Campionship for shorthand/speech capturing competition at Praha 2007.