World of O News
At 10.01 Csaba Gösswein will start the show at the World Cup Final in France – at 13.15 this years overall World Cup is decided. At 10.21 Ona Rafols heads out into the forest as the first woman. This is going to be a very exciting middle distance, where everything can happen. The only this that is for sure is that Thierry Gueorgiou is the big favourite to take the third victory in a row this week – after his incredible performance yesterday. But favourites have missed before, and Daniel Hubmann will surely fight till the end. To win the overall World Cup, it is enough for him to win with Thierry Gueorgiou on third spot or worse. That would not have seemed an impossible task a week ago – but now…?
This middle distance final was moved from tuesday, when the race had to be canceled when 2/3s of the field had started. The course setter has had a hard job the last days to set new courses in the same terrain. The finish area will be the same as on tuesday – and also the same as for the relay tomorrow. No controls will be reused from the cancelled race. The mens course will be 4.1 km with 260 meters of height (15 controls), and the womens course will be 3.7 km with 175 meter of height (13 controls).
Below you find the starting list for the 10 last runners in each category – which are also the best 10 in the overall World Cup:
12:25 Pasi IKONEN
12:27 Mattias MUELLER
12:29 Jarkko HUOVILA
12:31 Michal SMOLA
12:33 Jani LAKANEN
12:35 Emil WINGSTEDT
12:37 Holger HOTT JOHANSEN
12:39 Valentin NOVIKOV
12:41 Daniel HUBMANN
12:43 Thierry GUEORGIOU
11:44 Helena JANSSON
11:46 Anne KONRING OLESEN
11:48 Sara GEMPERLE
11:50 Karolina A-HÖJSGAARD
11:52 Dana BROZKOVA
11:54 Heli JUKKOLA
11:56 Emma ENGSTRAND
11:58 Minna KAUPPI
12:00 Marianne ANDERSON
12:02 Simone NIGGLI-LUDER
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Below you see the pictures of the heat winnes from mondays middle qualification. Everybody was now allowed the middle distance regardless of qualification results – but the qualification results indicate who are the favourites today. I would especially look out for Jarkko Huovila in the mens class – his performance on monday looked nearly as strong as Gueorgious!
