EOC Long: Surprise Gold for Tsvetkov
(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.
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