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EOC Long: Surprise Gold for Tsvetkov

Jan Kocbach May 28, 2008 Events 6 Comments

ts_1.jpg(Updated) In the EOC Long Final today we got one of the biggest surprises we have had for many years in Orienteering Championships. Surprise winner was Dimitry Tsvetkov (RUS) – who beat Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Emil Wingstedt (SWE) with 33 and 34 seconds, respectively.

Note! Big apologies to Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Sergey Detkov and all reader of World of O. We got up the wrong picture of Tsvetkov, which was up for more than 2 hours. The article is now updated with a correct picture.

Results
1 Tsvetkov,Dmitriy RUS 1:29:12 + 00:00 0
2 Hubmann,Daniel SUI 1:29:45 + 00:33 0
3 Wingstedt,Emil SWE 1:29:46 + 00:34 0
4 Merz,Matthias SUI 1:31:00 + 01:48 0
5 Johansson,Martin Per SWE 1:31:42 + 02:30 0
6 Rollier,Baptiste SUI 1:32:31 + 03:19 0

From the splits, it is clear that Tsvetkov caught up with Roman Efimov (RUS) starting 4 minutes ahead of Tsvetkov at control number 11 – and that the two were together at most of the rest of the course.

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Tsvetkov has no previous top 20 results in any senior WOC, EOC or World Cup race – you can see his World of O Runner Profile here. He has both individual and relay Gold medals from JWOC 2003 – but there is a long step from a JWOC Gold medal 5 years ago to a EOC Gold medal in the senior class.

Photo: Träningsbloggen

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6 comments

  1. Roman B
    May 28, 2008 at 19:15

    > Tsvetkov has no previous top 20 results in any WOC, > EOC or World Cup race

    What about Tsvetkov’s first place in Junior WOC (also long)?

  2. Disl
    May 28, 2008 at 19:53

    Wrong picture of Tsvetkov!!! world junior champion 2003 Estonia on olmost the same tarain… Is that a surpris???

  3. by the way
    May 28, 2008 at 20:15

    But guy in the picture is Sergey Detkov

  4. Anders Mårtensson
    May 28, 2008 at 20:20

    You have the wrong foto of Dimitry Tsvetkov, its Sergej Detkov on this foto in the articel!!!

  5. OK Tisaren
    May 28, 2008 at 20:34

    That´s not Dmitriy Tsvetkov on the picture, that is Sergey Detkov!

  6. Jan Kocbach
    May 28, 2008 at 20:54

    Thanks to all commenting about the wrong picture. I had to get out in the forest doing some orienteering after posting the news story. The reason for the wrong picture was a misunderstanding regarding which man on the picture was Tsvetkov. Again: My apologies!

    Regarding “world junior champion 2003 Estonia on olmost the same tarain… Is that a surpris???” -> Yes, I still think it is a big surprise!

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