Robert Merl (AUT), Frida Lönnberg (FIN), Filip Hadac (CZE), and Vendula Horcicková (CZE) took the victories in todays EYOC Long distance. Medals went to Czech Republic (2 Gold, 1 Silver), Austria (1 Gold), Finland (1 Gold), Norway (1 Silver, 1 Bronze), Hungary (1 Silver), Poland (1 Silver), Switzerland (1 Bronze), Denmark (1 Bronze) and Russia (1 Bronze).

EYOC continues with relay Saturday and sprint Sunday.

H18

1 72 Robert Merl AUT Austria 1:00:25 0:00
2 92 Mate Baumholczer HUN Hungary 1:02:52 2:27
3 29 Felix Haller SUI Switzerland 1:02:53 2:28
4 91 Antonio Martinez Pérez ESP Spain 1:03:57 3:32
5 61 Rafal Podzinski POL Poland 1:04:03 3:38
6 62 Daniel Wolf CZE Czech Rep. 1:04:21 3:56

D18

1 250 Frida Lönnberg FIN Finland 53:09 0:00
2 228 Anne Tine Markseth NOR Norway 53:38 0:29
3 262 Maren Haverstad NOR Norway 54:36 1:27
4 270 Lotta Karhola FIN Finland 55:23 2:14
5 220 Daria Maslennikova RUS Russia 56:38 3:29
6 243 Franziska Dörig SUI Switzerland 58:34 5:25

H16

1 143 Filip Hadac CZE Czech Rep. 50:57 0:00
2 184 Piotr Parfianowicz POL Poland 52:20 1:23
3 168 Thor Nørskov DEN Denmark 52:36 1:39
4 111 Volodymyr Selezn`ov UKR Ukraine 53:01 2:04
5 166 Michal Hubácek CZE Czech Rep. 53:20 2:23
6 170 Marton Kazal HUN Hungary 53:40 2:43

D16

1 356 Vendula Horcicková CZE Czech Rep. 42:13 0:00
2 317 Petra Pavlovcová CZE Czech Rep. 42:23 0:10
3 320 Ekaterina Savkina RUS Russia 42:29 0:16
4 337 Nastassia Dzianisava BLR Belarus 42:51 0:38
5 306 Marion Aebi SUI Switzerland 43:31 1:18
6 366 Anja Arbter AUT Austria 44:11 1:58

• Official results EYOC Long
• EYOC 2009 web page

• Map H18
• Map D18/D16/H16

The European Youth Championships starts with the long distance today at 10:00 CET in Kopaonik, Serbia Croatia. Kopaonik is located at 1700 meter altitude, and the terrain is subalpine. We will come back with maps after the competitions. Live results are available at the organizers website.

• EYOC online results
• Startlist EYOC Long distance
• Startlist EYOC Long distance sorted by Federation
• EYOC website

Update: Map from the event included below:

World of O Fantasy JWOC will give you another reason to follow the JWOC competitions the coming week. After several requests, I decided to make a quick clone of the WoO Fantasy World Cup - but with a twist to the calculation of points. In the Fantasy JWOC you should have the outsiders on your Team - and not necessarily the favourites. And everything depends on what the other managers do … Thus there will be an element of gambling in setting up your team.

Rules may change until Sunday

A suggested set of rules for the Fantasy JWOC is given below. Please add a comment if you have a suggestion for a change in the rules. All suggestions are considered - and if changes are made, the final rules will be posted Sunday evening at 20:00 CET.

• Browse all the JWOC Teams here. Note! A few teams/runners are missing. Will be updated as soon as I have them.
• Set up your team here. Note! A few teams/runners are missing. Will be updated as soon as I have them. Note also that the rules for calculation of income may change until Sunday evening at 20:00 CET.
• JWOC 2009 webpage
• JWOC Training preview at Worldofo.com
• JWOC preview at Ultimate Orienteering

The Fantasy JWOC is a ‘for-fun’ competition set up quickly. In addition, the names for JWOC runners are not always written the same way, so except to see some errors in point calculations etc. Take it as it is - and enjoy!

Suggested Fantasy JWOC Rules

Choose a Team consisting of 10 runners (you can choose arbitrary number of men/women) by dragging runners from the left column to the right column. You may have more than 10 runners in the right column, but only the 10 first count as your team and will give you income.

Income is calculated in the following way:

• For each JWOC race, your income is calculated based on the income of the 10 runners in your team. The income a runner gives you is calculated using the following formulas (note! virtual money:) :
  1. The best runner in each race earns 1.000.000 Euros for his managers, second position gets 800.000 Euros, third position 600.000 Euros, 4. place -> 500.000 Euros, 5. place -> 450.000 Euros, 6. place -> 400.000 Euros, 7. place -> 370.000 Euros, 8. place -> 350.000 Euros, 9. place -> 330.000 Euros, 10. place -> 310.000 Euros, 11. place -> 300.000 Euros, 12. place -> 290.000 Euros, 13. place -> 280.000 Euros …, 40. place -> 10.000 Euros.
  2. If two runners share a position, both earn the same sum
  3. All Teams which have a certain runner in their Team, will share the income this runner generates. I.e., if 100 Teams would have Albin Ridefelt in the team and Albin Ridefelt would win JWOC Sprint - each manager would get 1.000.000 Euros / 100 = 10.000 Euros.
• Bonus: In each JWOC race, you get a bonus of 50% of the income for the runner who is on the top of your team-list. Another 25% bonus for the runner on second place on your team-list, and yet another 10% bonus for the runner who is number three on your team-list
• All JWOC races count in the total figure
• You may drag as many runners over to your team in the right column as you want, but only the 10 topmost runners count in your sum
• You can change which runners are in your team between each race
• Last chance to change your team ahead of each JWOC race is given in the overview table here.
• Note! This is a very experimental ‘for-fun’ service, and errors may (and will) occur.
• You may change your team ahead of each competition.
• Income calculation will be done as soon as possible after each competition (when official results are available) - but there might be delays

World of O is planning to cover the JWOC with live blogs similar to NOC and Jukola. Now the official training week has started, and we are giving you a small preview of what is happening down in Italy now. Several of the national junior teams have arrived in Trentino, Italy to start preparing for the highlight of the year - the JWOC 2009 starting in less than a week at July 6th with the sprint distance.

Official Training week: Timetable

Below you find the timetable for the official training week for the Junior World Orienteering Championship 2009. Expect to find many of the training maps on omaps.worldofo.com the coming days - see some of the maps in the links at the bottom of this page.

Updated 1/7/09: See also map from middle training via Nz Squad JWOC blog.

JWOC Programme

See the complete programme here.

Several teams arrived

Several teams have already arrived in Italy - and some of the teams also have their own blogs - expect to find them on World of O from the coming weekend. The New Zealand JWOC Squad reports:

• - We encountered the other teams for the first time today, Russa, Japan, South Africa and Hong Kong were all out on the map training at the same time as us. We expect to see heaps more of the other countries as the week progresses, as Primiero isn’t a very big place! JWOC is being promoted much more than last year in Sweden. There are posters and o flags up in shops all over town and most of the lamp posts have JWOC 2009 flags hanging from them.

Read more on the NZ JWOC Squad 2009 blog.

Live Blog: Help needed

World of O is planning to cooperate with the JWOC organizers to cover the Sprint, Middle and Long finals with a Live Blog as for Jukola/10Mila/NOC (pending details on how the live results etc. will be from the competitions - but first info seem promising). Help from World of O readers is appreciated as always! If somebody wants to be in on the team as a panelist and/or moderators, please send an email to jan@kocbach.net. Comments and pictures from spectators present in Italy via Wifi/mobile phone would be great - we can put you on a “always allow” list - and maybe even try to get wifi-access via the organizers if possible.

Links to maps and stories

Below you find a collection of some maps and stories from JWOC preparations:

• New Zealand JWOC Squad report from their arrival in Primiero - including training map
• Anton Tynong (SWE) reports from Italy on his blog (Swedish language)
• The Australian JWOC Team arrived in Italy
• Preview of JWOC favourites on Ultimate Orienteering
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training I
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training II
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training III
• Anton Tynong - map from training I
• Anton Tynong - map from training II
• Anton Tynong - map from training III
• NZ team training in Asiago

Thierry Gueorgiou and Helena Jansson got a DNF and DNS respectively in World Cup race number 4 of the season at O-festivalen in Oslo, Norway. Thus many managers lost two of the runners in their team, and thus only had a team of 8 runners. Manager Magne Dæhlie with the Dæhlie Team did not have Gueorgiou in his team - instead he had both winners Minna Kauppi (picture, right) and Martin Johansson (picture, left) in his team - and thus took the victory for World Cup race number four with a total of 640 points.

In the overall Fantasy World Cup, the Scary Team increased its lead to 19 points - with Bushmen in second spot.

Jansson dropped the race due to knee problems, whereas Gueorgiou quit the race at the 21st control as can be seen on the GPSseuranta Tracking from the event.

The World Cup - and therefore also the Fantasy World Cup - now takes a break until the World Orienteering Championships in Hungary in August. The next three World Cup races are the WOC Middle distance on August 19th, the WOC sprint distance on August 20th and the Long distance on August 23rd.

Dæhlie Team - Best in World Cup race 4

The Dæhli Team with manager Magne Dæhli won the 4th round of the Fantasy World Cup with the following team:

1.   Minna Kauppi - 150.00	2.   Marianne Andersen - 100.00	3.   Daniel Hubmann - 44.00
4.   Emil Wingstedt - 60.00	5.   Helena Jansson - 0.00	6.   Carl Waaler Kaas - 45.00
7.   Simone Niggli - 60.00	8.   Martin Johansson - 100.00	9.   Peter Öberg - 50.00
10.   Matthias Merz - 31.00

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 4
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 4

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular - with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work - and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

World Cup, O-festivalen: Daniel Hubmann has 1.26 to catch on Peter Öberg and Carl Waaler Kaas, but is still the favourite of the WoO Fantasy World Cup managers in the mens class when the World Cup continues with a long distance chasing start at O-festivalen in Oslo today. For the women, Kauppi is the big favourite. There will again be possibilities to follow this exciting race with live webTV, live GPS tracking and live results.

Fight against Kauppi

Kauppi is the favourite among the women, but she will still have to fight hard for the victory. Marianne Andersen starts only 47 seconds behind - and with a tough long distance course in terrain similar to Marianne Andersens home terrain, Kauppi will not have an easy task. Simone Niggli in fourth position - 2:16 behind Kauppi - is also very interested in showing that she is really back in the top. The Swedish girls Helena Jansson and Emma Johansson will also be part of the fight for the victory.

1. Kauppi,Minna Finland 14:30:00
2. Andersen,Marianne Norway 14:30:47
3. Jansson,Helena Sweden 14:31:58
4. Niggli,Simone Switzerland 14:32:16
5. Johansson,Emma Sweden 14:32:38
6. Holmström,Bodil Finland 14:32:44

Hubmann again?

Hubmann is the favourite among the Fantasy World Cup managers after his impressing last leg legs for Kristiansand at Jukola and 10Mila. Will the Swiss runner be the best in a fight man against man in the tough Norwegian terrain as well? Mattias Merz is another Swiss runner who has shown impressive results in similar fights earlier - starting 1:37 behind. However, Peter Öberg, Carl Waaler Kaas and Anders Nordberg who are the first starters will have to be counted among the very big favourites. And don’t forget Thierry Guergiou - who really wants to get his revenge after several for him disappointing performances this season.

1. Öberg,Peter Sweden 15:00:00
2. Kaas,Carl Waaler Norway 15:00:00
3. Nordberg,Anders Norway 15:00:21
4. Wingstedt,Emil Sweden 15:00:38
5. Gueorgiou,Thierry France 15:00:43
6. Andersson,David Sweden 15:01:09
7. Föhr,Tero Finland 15:01:16
8. Johansson,Martin Sweden 15:01:26
9. Hubmann,Daniel Switzerland 15:01:26
10. Adamski,Phillippe France 15:01:27
11. Merz,Matthias Switzerland 15:01:37
12. Renard,Damien France 15:02:05

Follow the race live

Use the following possibilites to follow the race live

• Startlist men and startlist women
• Online results
• Live webTV for international and norwegian viewers
• Live GPS Tracking
• Arena speaker (combination of arena speaker and webTV might be a good option for international viewers who do not understand Norwegian)

Manager favourites

Below you see the favourites of the managers in the WoO Fantasy World Cup ahead of the chasing start.

1. Minna Kauppi (194 teams)
   

2. Daniel Hubmann (193 teams)
   
3. Thierry Gueorgiou (191 teams)
   
4. Simone Niggli (157 teams)
   
5. Peter Öberg (147 teams)
6. Helena Jansson (147 teams)
   
7. Matthias Merz (137 teams)
   
8. Marianne Andersen (120 teams)
   
9. Anders Nordberg (114 teams)
   
10. Emil Wingstedt (94 teams)
    

The Scary Team with Anders Skarholt (pictured from todays race) as manager took back the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after todays 3rd World Cup race of the season. Skarholt finished 16th in the real World Cup race today, and would have increased his lead in the Fantasy World Cup even more by stepping in for Annika Billstam on his own team. Maybe there is room for Skarholt in the Scary Team tomorrow? The Scary Team now has a lead of more than 10 points down to TTT. Best in todays Fantasy World Cup round was Team Bananen with manager Martin Hoset, going up to 46th position overall.

Update June 27th 1400! Heidi Bagstevold got 27 points on WC 3. competition, but in Fantasy World Cup her points was 0.0. This will be fixed when results of WC 4 are published monday morning.

Note! Results are preliminary - please report any errors in the calculations in a comment below.

World Cup race number 4

The next race in the World Cup is already tomorrow - the deadline for setting up your team is at 14:00 CET. Log in to set up your team here. Remember that tomorrows race is a chasing start - so take a good look at todays results (or here) before setting up your team. Note! Points for the Fantasy World Cup are as always calculated according to the World Cup point rules - i.e. the total time (and not the competition time for race 4 alone) is what counts.

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings (preliminary)
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3 (preliminary)
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1 (updated!)

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular - with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work - and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Top 10 after World Cup Race 3

After a dramatic race, Carl Waaler Kaas and Peter Öberg and shared the victory in todays World Cup Middle distance in the mens class. Minna Kauppi was again the best woman - winning ahead of Marianne Andersen.

Tricky Norwegian terrain

The terrain north of Oslo proved to be tricky - many of the top runners having problems on the way. Notably, both Thierry Gueorgiou and Daniel Hubmann made several mistakes, finishing 5th and 8th respectively. Below you see the routechoices (from GPS track of GPSseuranta) of Carl Waaler Kaas and Peter Öberg. You find GPS tracks of all the top runners at the GPSseuranta page.

For a nice coverage of the races as they developed, see this article at Orienteering.is for the men, and this article at Orienteering.is for the women.

Results Men

1 Öberg, Peter Sweden 35:31
1 Waaler Kaas, Carl Norway 35:31
3 Nordberg, Anders Norway 35:52
4 Wingstedt, Emil Sweden 36:09
5 Gueorgiou, Thierry France 36:14
6 Andersson, David Sweden 36:40
7 Föhr, Tero Finland 36:47
8 Johansson, Martin Sweden 36:57
8 Hubmann, Daniel Switzerland 36:57
10 Adamski, Phillippe France 36:58

Results Women

1 Kauppi, Minna Finland 34:34
2 Andersen, Marianne Norway 35:21
3 Jansson, Helena Sweden 36:32
4 Niggli, Simone Switzerland 36:50
5 Johansson, Emma Sweden 37:12
6 Holmström, Bodil Finland 37:18
7 Sundberg, Karoliina Finland 38:02
8 Fasting, Mari Norway 38:11
9 Lindeqvist, Katri Finland 38:29
10 Jurenikova, Eva Czech Rep. 39:24

• Online results available here
• Full results will be available here

World of O Runners will be updated with pictures of most runners after the weekend.

International viewers WILL be able to view the excellent webTV-coverage promised from the the World Cup races in Norway June 26th and 27th. For some time it was unclear if the coverage would be available outside Norway. There will be a separate link for international viewers and a separate link for viewers in Norway. In addition, full GPS tracking of about 50 athletes will be available during the races. Web TV production will be made with 7 cameras by a Finnish production company. GPS tracking will be made by GPSseuranta - the same tracking which got a lot of praise during the NOC and Jukola.

On Friday the races takes place from 13.30 CET to 17.00 CET, and Saturday’s race is held between 14.30 CET and 17.00 CET. See more information in the article about the Fantasy World Cup.

Follow the race live

Use the following possibilites to follow the race live

• Startlist men and startlist women
• Online results
• Live webTV for international and norwegian viewers
• Live GPS Tracking
• Arena speaker (combination of arena speaker and webTV might be a good option for international viewers who do not understand Norwegian)

24 nations

Runners from 24 nations will participate in the World Cup round. This will be the biggest TV show from Norwegian Orienteering yet, with 7 cameras and direct web-TV broadcast at nrksport.no including GPS-Tracking of 50 runners (20 women and 30 men).

Some useful links:

• GPSseuranta page for World Cup races 3 and 4
• O-festivalen homepage (English version) - Links to webTV coverage will be given here
• Bulletin Four - O-Festivalen World Cup

Tomorrow on Friday June 26th the third World Cup race of the season is held in Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian O-Festival. Now is the time to remember to set up your Fantasy World Cup Team ahead of the race. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition where you can set up a World Cup Team consisting of 10 runners (either men, women or a mix), and get points according to their performance.

World Cup Race information

Expect startlists to appear during Thursday as deadline for entering names of runners is Thursday at 12:00 CET.

• First start on Friday’s Middle distance is 13:31 CET for women and 13:42 CET for men according to Bulletin 4. For the Fantasy World Cup, Team registration will be open until Friday June 26th at 12:00 CET.
• For Saturdays Chasing start Long distance first start is 14:30 CET for women and 15:00 CET for men. For the Fantasy World Cup, Team registration will be open until Saturday June 27th at 14:00 CET

Runners from 24 nations will participate in the World Cup round. This will be the biggest TV show from Norwegian Orienteering yet, with 7 cameras and direct web-TV broadcast at nrksport.no including GPS-Tracking of 50 runners.

Some useful links:

• Startlist World Cup Middle Men
• Startlist World Cup Middle Women
• O-festivalen homepage (English version)
• Bulletin Four - O-Festivalen World Cup

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 2

Rules

Choose a Team consisting of 10 runners (you can choose arbitrary number of men/women).

Points are calculated in the following way:

• For each World Cup race, your score is calculated as the World Cup points of the 10 runners in your team
• Bonus: In each World Cup race, you get a bonus of 50% of the points for the runner who is on the top of your team-list. Another 25% bonus for the runner on second place on your team-list, and yet another 10% bonus for the runner who is number three on your team-list
• Your 7 best total sums of the 9 World Cup races count in the total figure
• You may drag as many runners over to your team in the right column as you want, but only the 10 topmost runners count in your sum
• You can change which runners are in your team between each race
• Last chance to change your team ahead of each World Cup race is given in the overview table here.
• Calculation of points will be done after each World Cup round - but you may change your team ahead of each competition.

See the complete rules - and register your Team here!.