WOC Middle Qual: Map and results

No big surprises in todays Middle Qualification in the World Orienteering Champs in Miskolc, Hungary. The biggest surprise was maybe that the king of the middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – did not win the middle distance qualification – a first since 2001! For the athletes, it was good to get started and find the first controls in the Bükk mountains. The championships continue with Long Qualification tomorrow.

Most impressive today: The Swiss team. All 6 runners within the Top Three in their heat!

Updated 16/08/09, 15:00 CET with official results

• Map women
• Map men
• The map of Philippe Adamski (via Twitter / @philippeadamski)

Results

Women A
1 Simone Niggli-Luder SUI 26:46 1444
2 Helena Jansson SWE 28:29 1350
3 Merja Rantanen FIN 28:57 1325
4 Julia Novikova RUS 29:11 1312
5 Inga Dambe LAT 29:59 1269
6 Bodil Holmström FIN 30:06 1262
7 Vendula Klechová CZE 30:11 1258
8 Bernadett Kelemen HUN 30:29 1241
9 Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen NOR 31:05 1209
10 Capucine Vercellotti FRA 31:21 1194
11 Hanny Allston AUS 31:45 1173
12 Maria Novella Sbaraglia ITA 31:54 1164
13 Rachael Elder GBR 32:17 1143
14 Maja Alm DEN 32:50 1113
15 Iliana Shandurkova BUL 33:13 1093

Women B
1 Marianne Andersen NOR 27:01 1372
2 Dana Brožková CZE 28:05 1315
3 Vroni Koenig-Salmi SUI 28:09 1312
4 Irina Nuberg RUS 28:38 1286
5 Katri Lindeqvist FIN 28:45 1280
6 Jenny Lönnkvist SWE 29:53 1220
7 Aija Skrastiņa LAT 29:59 1215
8 Inga Kazlauskaite LTU 30:07 1208
9 Ji Li CHN 30:30 1188
10 Éva Makrai HUN 31:18 1146
11 Grace Crane AUS 31:55 1113
12 Jana Macinská SVK 32:12 1098
13 Merike Vanjuk EST 32:43 1071
14 Zsuzsa Fey ROU 34:10 994
15 Karin Schmalfeld GER 34:36 971

Women C
1 Lea Müller SUI 28:15 1347
2 Minna Kauppi FIN 29:14 1302
3 Radka Brožková CZE 29:57 1270
4 Signe Søes DEN 30:16 1256
5 Irina Mikchalko RUS 31:27 1202
6 Annika Rihma EST 31:40 1192
7 Ingunn Hultgreen Weltzien NOR 32:48 1141
8 Nataliya Dimitrova BUL 32:57 1134
9 Emma Johansson SWE 33:10 1125
10 Amélie Chataing FRA 33:53 1092
11 Michela Guizzardi ITA 34:23 1070
12 Olena Strugalova UKR 36:02 995
13 Sandra Zürcher USA 36:09 990
14 Laura Vīķe LAT 37:17 939
15 Irina Maiorescu ROU 37:27 931
Men A
1 Pavlo Ushkvarok UKR 26:39 1315
2 Matthias Müller SUI 27:01 1295
3 Dmitry Mikhalkin BLR 27:03 1293
4 Leonid Novikov RUS 27:08 1289
5 Audun Weltzien NOR 27:15 1283
=6 Philippe Adamski FRA 27:39 1261
=6 Peter Öberg SWE 27:39 1261
8 Damien Renard FRA 27:59 1243
9 Jarkko Huovila FIN 28:25 1219
10 Michal Smola CZE 28:47 1199
11 Gábor Domonyik HUN 28:57 1190
12 Marco Seppi ITA 29:07 1181
13 Christian Teich GER 29:08 1180
14 Andreas Kraas EST 29:09 1179
15 Wolfgang Siegert AUT 29:10 1178

Men B
1 Matthias Merz SUI 25:47 1371
2 Tero Föhr FIN 26:40 1327
3 Ionut Zinca ROU 26:59 1310
4 Alexey Bortnik RUS 27:06 1304
5 Ádám Kovács HUN 27:30 1284
6 Mikhail Mamleev ITA 27:42 1274
7 Anders Nordberg NOR 27:47 1270
8 David Andersson SWE 27:48 1269
9 Marián Dávidík SVK 27:55 1263
10 Francois Gonon FRA 28:09 1251
11 Jan Šedivý CZE 28:43 1222
12 Mārtiņš Sirmais LAT 28:49 1217
13 Leif Bader GER 29:09 1200
14 Roman Fedotov UKR 29:29 1183
15 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys LTU 29:45 1170

Men C
1 Valentin Novikov RUS 26:11 1393
2 Daniel Hubmann SUI 27:06 1350
3 Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 27:15 1343
=4 Jan Prochazka CZE 27:39 1324
=4 Oleksandr Kratov UKR 27:39 1324
6 Holger Hott NOR 27:53 1313
7 Pasi Ikonen FIN 28:08 1301
8 Chris Forne NZL 28:32 1282
9 Gernot Kerschbaumer AUT 29:07 1255
10 Wojciech Dwojak POL 29:08 1254
11 Edgars Bertuks LAT 29:50 1221
12 Tue Lassen DEN 30:06 1209
13 Oli Johnson GBR 30:24 1195
14 Emil Wingstedt SWE 30:32 1189
15 Yury Tambasov BLR 31:10 1159

• Official results here

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