In the final day of the EOC 2008 Sweden and Russia took home the Gold medals in the Relay. The Swedish team with Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson finished only 12 seconds ahead of the Russian Silver medalists. In the mens class Russia took the gold medal with Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Andrey Khramov and Valentin Novikov – only 15 seconds ahead of Switzerland. Thus Tsvetkov can travel home from Latvia with 2 Gold medals in his bag – what a breakthrough on the senior level for this Russian
runner!
Exciting fight between Sweden and Russia
Towards the end of the last leg in the women class, Sweden had worked up a lead of about 30 seconds. However, the second leg was problematic for many of the women – so also for the last leg on the Swedish team, Helena Jansson. Even with a mistake at this control, she manages to secure the Gold medal some meters ahead of Russias Tanja Ryabkina.
Close race between Russia and Switzerland
In the mens class, Russia was also in a tight fight for the Gold medals – in this case however Valentin Novikov managed to make the decision for Russia. The Swiss last leg runner Daniel Hubmann run well in the start of the leg, and got into the lead. However, at a longer gaffling control, Novikov got ahead, and Hubmann never managed to get ahead again. In the end, Russia won the Gold medal with 15 small seconds.
Statements
- Damien Renard: – It was a tight competition as we expected between the 6-8 best teams. The Russians and Swiss were also as expected the strongest teams. For our team, it is not good enough to make us happy. We did each one of us 1 min mistake. It is not much on this technical terrain but enough to be out of the podium. Our goal was clearly the gold. In order to make it, we need the 2 first legs to be the best poss … [read more]
- Baptiste Rollier: – Todays relay closed the EOC and with Matthias and Daniel we could take the second place behind Russia.Before the race I was quite nervous because our goal (a medal) was high and many teams could fight for a place on the podium and because it was the first time I was running for the 1st Swiss team in an international competition. Moreover the terrain promised to be very technical especialy in the b … [read more]
- Øystein Kvaal Østerbø: – Today’s Relay in the European Championship in Latvia was in a terrain with mostly sand dunes just south of Ventspils. It was not a good day for Norway, with the girls on 4th place and my team on the 8th place in the men’s class. (The best team from each nation is counting.)Lars Skjeset, Anders Nordberg and I missed all 2 – 3 minutes, and we finised as 10th team, 6 minutes behind the winners fr … [read more]
- Emma Engstrand: – Lina öppnade starkt och skickade ut mig som 7:a, ungefär en minut efter täten. Jag kom in i loppet fint och hade riktigt bra flyt . Kom i kapp lag efter lag, och även om jag inte sett alla lag som var före mig så anade jag att jag var i täten. Vid varvningen fick jag bekräftelse att så var fallet. Jag hade då en ledning på ca 2 minuter vilket naturligtvis kändes riktigt bra. Vad jag inte visste då var att jag hade haft lång gaffel hela vägen också. Jag behövde inte känna mig jagad bakåt och det fina flytet fortsatte en bit till. Till näst sista kontrollen kom så tyvärr ett misstag. Näst sista var riktigt svår, och det var inte bara jag som hade problem där. Jag gjorde ett parallellfel och kom till fel gaffel och det tog en liten stund innan jag redde ut situationen. Aningen frustrerad så kunde jag växla ut Helena, fortfarande i ledning, men med ett betydligt mindre avstånd bakåt än det varit kilometern tidigare … [read more]
- Kristiansand OK Elite: – What a day for the two KOK Runners Baptiste Rollier and Daniel Hubmann. At the Relay, both showed great performances and ended together with their team mate Matthias Merz on the second place.Damien Renard was running the first leg for the French team. He changed in a perfect 9th position, one minute down on Baptiste who changed in 4th position. Rasmus Djurhuus showed his potential with a 9th best … [read more]
- French Orienteering Federation: – Le relais Homme à 2 secondes du podium… Sur un temps de course de plus de 2 heures, il naura manqué que 2 toutes petites secondes au camp tricolore pour décrocher la médaille de bronze du relais aux championnats dEurope! Retour à Ventspils (centre de course) pour cette dernière épreuve du championnat dEurope. Sur un te … [read more]
- Swedish O-Federation: – Sveriges damer tog strax före klockan tio på söndagsmorgonen svensk tid EM-guld i stafett. Sista tävlingsdagen på EM-veckan i Ventspils i Lettland kunde inte börjat bättre för blågult. Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand och Helena Jansson är guldtjejerna för dagen.Läs mer … [read more]
- Swiss Orienteering: – Nach einem sehr vielversprechenden Start fällt das Schweizer Frauenteam auf dem neunten Rang (siebter EM-Rang, da jeweils nur das erste Team für die Wertung zählt) zurück. Startläuferin Ines Brodmann übergab an dritter Stelle hinter GBR 1 und SWE 2 an Seline Stalder, die den Kontakt zur Spitze nicht ganz halten konnte und mit etwas… … [read more]
- Alessio Tenani: – Con la staffetta di stamattina si sono conclusi i Campionati Europei: in squadra con Andrea Seppi al lancio e Manuel Negrello in ultima frazione ci siamo classificati al 16° posto per nazionali.La mia gara ha vissuto 3 momenti distinti: dopo il primo punto approcciato in modo molto preciso ho fatto due sbandate significative nei punti successivi (2-3 di errore) per forzare il ritmo e rientrare s … [read more]
- Swiss Orienteering: – Baptiste Rollier, Matthias Merz und Daniel Hubmann gewinnen zum
Abschluss der Europameisterschaften in Ventspils (Lettland)
Staffelsilber. Nach einer guten Startstrecke von Rollier läuft Merz an
die Spitze, muss diese nach einem Fehler beim zweitletzten Posten aber
an Russland abgeben. Schlussläufer Hubmann läuft nochmals an die
Spitze, muss Valentin Novikov bei einem läng … [read more]
- Alternativet.nu: – Trion Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand och Helena Jansson knep guldmedaljen vid stafetten som avslutade … … [read more]
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Results
Map
The map from the EOC Relay is available at Baptiste Rollier’s webpage (extract above).
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