After a very exciting WOC Middle Final yesterday, we are ready for the WOC Sprint today. The Qualification starts at 09:00 CET – whereas the final starts at 16:20 CET.

Tip: Take a look at the WOC 2009 Team page with pictures of most runners taken at WOC 2009 sorted by country and runner. Now also includes pictures and results from the middle final.

Important facts Sprint Qual/Final

The 15 best from each qualification heat in the morning go to the final. There are a total of three heats – thus 45 runners in each of the finals. In the qualification the mens course is 2.9 km (14 min) and the womens course is 2.5-2.6 km (14 min). The final courses are 3.2 km for the men (15 min) and 2.6 km for the women (14 min).

• Results WOC 2008 sprint, Olomouc

Follow the event live

• Live results Sprint + Live text commentary + live speaker sound (free) + Startlists sprint
• GPS Tracking (pay service – 5 euros)
• Live video (pay service – 5 euros – included in GPS tracking payment)

WOC History

Another useful resource is the World of O Runners WOC history page – giving you all the best WOC results for each discipline sorted by country. Who is the best placed Latvian in the Long distance ever? Of course you knew: Ants Grende in 1993. (Note! As you see in the comments, a Latvian runner was better placed in 1989, but she was then running for Russia). We will also try to update these pages during the championships.

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

Program

The first two days are the most important ones for many of the smaller orienteering nations – then we have qualifications in Middle and Long distance. The first final is the Middle final at Wednesday – whereas the Long final is the last competition in this World Orienteering Champs at Sunday August 23rd.

• Sunday 16.08: Middle Qualification, 10:00-12:00 CET
• Monday 17.08: Long Qualification, 09:00-12:00 CET
• Wednesday 19.08: Middle Final, 10:00-14:15 CET
• Thursday 20.08: (1) Sprint Qualification, 09:00-11:00 CET. (2) Sprint Final, 16:20-19:00 CET
• Friday 21.08: Relay, 11:00-16:30 CET
• Sunday 23.08: Long Final, 11:00 CET – 16:00 CET

Course lengths

For complete information about the courses, see Bulletin 4.

• Middle Qualification: Men 5.1 km (25 min), Women 4.1 km (25 min)
• Long Qualification: Men 10.4-10.5 km (58 min), Women 6.5-6.8 km (43 min)
• Sprint Qualification: Men 2.9 km (14 min), Women 2.5-2.6 km (14 min)
• Sprint Final: Men 3.2 km (15 min), Women 2.6 km (14 min)
• Middle Final: Men 6.6 km (35 min), Women 5.3 km (35 min)
• Long Final: Men 17.6 km (95 min), Women 11.8 km (75 min)
• Relay: Men 6.0-8.8-8.7 (36-53-53), Women 4.9-6.9-7.2 (32-43-45)

Note! The 15 best in each qualification heat will qualify for the final.

Maps and Terrain

We have published a separate article about the maps and the terrain. You find the article about old maps for the competition areas here.

The terrain for all competitions except for the long final and the sprint is described as non-typical karst with a small number of negative features and many point objects. The terrain is quite hilly, and the competitions will be physically though. For the sprint, the terrain is describes as semi-urban with many paths and some erosion features. The long distance final is the most special terrain ? with many negative features and quite stony.

GPS Tracking, Live results and Live tracking

There will be live GPS Tracking form the middle final, long final and relay. Note that GPS-tracking is a pay-service, and you will have to buy a code before you can view the tracking. Tracking is available through www.smartway.hu.

In addition to GPS Tracking, there will be live results, the organizers provide live text commentary, and maps will be presented in RouteGadget after the competitions.

• Live results, live tracking, live commentary at the WOC 2009 live page
• WOC 2009 Teams (will be updated!)
• WOC 2009 LiveBlog @ WorldofO.com

The Bushmen with manager Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen took the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after the WOC Middle distance. The Scary team is now in second spot – and these two teams have a solid lead down to the Accelerate Team in third spot. The Fantasy World Cup continues with tomorrows WOC Sprint in Miskolc, Hungary. 09:00 CET tomorrow is your latest chance to change your Fantasy World Cup Team.

Bushmen – Best in World Cup race 5

1.   Minna Kauppi – 75.00 points	2.   Thierry Gueorgiou – 125.00 points
3.   Marianne Andersen – 88.00 points	4.   Simone Niggli – 60.00 points
5.   Valentin Novikov – 27.00 points	6.   Matthias Merz – 60.00 points
7.   Daniel Hubmann – 80.00 points	8.   Helena Jansson – 40.00 points
9.   Matthias Müller – 50.00 points	10.   Dana Brožková – 100.00 points

Fantasy World Cup Schedule during WOC 2009

The Schedule for the Fantasy World Cup during the World Orienteering Champs:

- Wednesday August 19th, 09:30 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Middle
- Thursday August 20th, 09:00 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Sprint
- Sunday August 23rd, 09:00 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Long

After each competition, changes can be made from 20:00 CET in the evening.

Log in here to change your Team:

• http://runners.worldofo.com/fantasywc/

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 5
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 4
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 5

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular – with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work – and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Thierry Gueorgiou and Dana Brozkova took the gold medals in todays World Orienteering Champs middle distance. - My first middle distance victory since last year in Olomouc, a very happy Gueorgiou said after receiving his Gold medal. Brozkova has also not been on the top the since winning gold in the long distance last year.

- I have had many problems with injuries the last year. Only the last 14 days I have started to feel better, says Brozkova.

Tricky terrain – bad runnability

Todays courses were quite tricky – many runners lost their medal possibilities by doing mistakes in the Hungarian forest. – It was very though running in this forest, Gueorgiou said after his race. There were lots of trees lying on the ground – making runnability bad.

Below you see the maps for men and women. The same terrain will also be used for the relay on Friday.

• Map men
• Map women

Results Men

1. Gueorgiou Thierry (FRA) 37:14
2. Hubmann Daniel (SUI) 37:43
3. Merz Matthias (SUI) 38:10
4. Mueller Matthias (SUI) 38:45
5. Gonon François (FRA) 38:48
6. Andersson David (SWE) 39:09

Results Women

1 .Brožková Dana (CZE) 37:09
2. Andersen Mariann (NOR) 37:19
3. Niggli Simone (SUI) 37:58
4. Kauppi Minna (FIN) 38:21
5. Rantanen Merja (FIN) 38:59
6. Jansson Helena (SWE) 39:08

• Full results

WOC 2009 LiveBlog

The WOC 2009 LiveBlog was a good place to follow WOC Middle online today. You can replay some of the action below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

Finally we are ready for the first big day of WOC 2009 – the Middle Final. It is going to be a very exciting race, and the organizers have promised both live video streaming and GPS tracking (pay-service – 5 Euro – see details below).

Tip: Take a look at the WOC 2009 Team page with pictures of most runners taken at WOC 2009 sorted by country and runner. Also includes all results so far and startlists for middle and long final.

Tip 2: Vote for your favourite at the LiveBlog at the bottom of this page.

Three Big Favourites

In the womens class we have three big favourites (pictured above): Minna Kauppi, Simone Niggli and Marianne Andersen. Between these three it is very open, but it would be a surprise if not one of these three would take the gold medal. The biggest outsiders in the womens class are Julia Novikova, Signe Søes and Helena Jansson.

The King of Middle Distance again?

In the mens class Thierry Gueorgiou – The King of Middle distance – is the big favourite as always. However, Peter Öberg showed earlier this year that Gueorgiou is not unbeatable – and it will be exciting to see if Öberg can do it again in terrain which is not Nordic. Gueorgiou was very angry after his performances in Finland and Norway this spring and summer – and you can be sure he is determined to show that he is still the best over the middle distance. In addition to Öberg, other big contenders are of course the two Swiss runners Daniel Hubmann and Matthias Merz. Valentin Novikov also showed strength in the qualification, and can be a though man to beat if he gets the orienteering right all the way from start to finish.

Important facts Middle Final

Expect more technical orienteering in the Middle Final compared to the Qualifications. The terrain has more details, and there are also more green areas. You find the old map over the area here.

The women run 5.3 km with expected winning time of 35 minutes. The first start is the Bulgarian Iliana Shandurkova at 09:30. The last woman out is Lea Müller at 10:58.

There is a break of 17 minutes between the last man and the first women. The men run 6.6 kilometers with an expected winning time of 6.6 km. First out is Wolfgang Siegert from Austria at 11:15. The last man out into the forest is Valentin Novikov at 12:43. Thierry Gueorgiou is starting already at 12:31.

Follow the event live

• Live results Middle Final + Live text commentary + live speaker sound (free)
• GPS Tracking (pay service – 5 euros)
• Live video (pay service – 5 euros – included in GPS tracking payment)
• Startlist men
• Startlist women

WOC History

Another useful resource is the World of O Runners WOC history page – giving you all the best WOC results for each discipline sorted by country. Who is the best placed Latvian in the Long distance ever? Of course you knew: Ants Grende in 1993. (Note! As you see in the comments, a Latvian runner was better placed in 1989, but she was then running for Russia). We will also try to update these pages during the championships.

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

Program

The first two days are the most important ones for many of the smaller orienteering nations – then we have qualifications in Middle and Long distance. The first final is the Middle final at Wednesday – whereas the Long final is the last competition in this World Orienteering Champs at Sunday August 23rd.

• Sunday 16.08: Middle Qualification, 10:00-12:00 CET
• Monday 17.08: Long Qualification, 09:00-12:00 CET
• Wednesday 19.08: Middle Final, 10:00-14:15 CET
• Thursday 20.08: (1) Sprint Qualification, 09:00-11:00 CET. (2) Sprint Final, 16:20-19:00 CET
• Friday 21.08: Relay, 11:00-16:30 CET
• Sunday 23.08: Long Final, 11:00 CET – 16:00 CET

Course lengths

For complete information about the courses, see Bulletin 4.

• Middle Qualification: Men 5.1 km (25 min), Women 4.1 km (25 min)
• Long Qualification: Men 10.4-10.5 km (58 min), Women 6.5-6.8 km (43 min)
• Sprint Qualification: Men 2.9 km (14 min), Women 2.5-2.6 km (14 min)
• Sprint Final: Men 3.2 km (15 min), Women 2.6 km (14 min)
• Middle Final: Men 6.6 km (35 min), Women 5.3 km (35 min)
• Long Final: Men 17.6 km (95 min), Women 11.8 km (75 min)
• Relay: Men 6.0-8.8-8.7 (36-53-53), Women 4.9-6.9-7.2 (32-43-45)

Note! The 15 best in each qualification heat will qualify for the final.

Maps and Terrain

We have published a separate article about the maps and the terrain. You find the article about old maps for the competition areas here.

The terrain for all competitions except for the long final and the sprint is described as non-typical karst with a small number of negative features and many point objects. The terrain is quite hilly, and the competitions will be physically though. For the sprint, the terrain is describes as semi-urban with many paths and some erosion features. The long distance final is the most special terrain ? with many negative features and quite stony.

GPS Tracking, Live results and Live tracking

There will be live GPS Tracking form the middle final, long final and relay. Note that GPS-tracking is a pay-service, and you will have to buy a code before you can view the tracking. Tracking is available through www.smartway.hu.

In addition to GPS Tracking, there will be live results, the organizers provide live text commentary, and maps will be presented in RouteGadget after the competitions.

• Live results, live tracking, live commentary at the WOC 2009 live page
• WOC 2009 Teams (will be updated!)
• WOC 2009 LiveBlog @ WorldofO.com

The Fantasy World Cup continues with tomorrows WOC Middle Final in Miskolc, Hungary. 09:30 CET tomorrow is your latest chance to change your Fantasy World Cup Team – make sure to check the startlists to see that your favourites are really in the race!

Fantasy World Cup Schedule during WOC 2009

The Schedule for the Fantasy World Cup during the World Orienteering Champs:

- Wednesday August 19th, 09:30 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Middle
- Thursday August 20th, 09:00 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Sprint
- Sunday August 23rd, 09:00 CET – Last time to set up team for WOC Long

After each competition, changes can be made from 20:00 CET in the evening.

Log in here to change your Team:

• http://runners.worldofo.com/fantasywc/
• Startlist Middle Final men
• Startlist Middle Final women

Dæhlie Team – Best in World Cup race 4

The Dæhli Team with manager Magne Dæhli won the 4th round of the Fantasy World Cup with the following team:

1.   Minna Kauppi – 150.00	2.   Marianne Andersen – 100.00	3.   Daniel Hubmann – 44.00
4.   Emil Wingstedt – 60.00	5.   Helena Jansson – 0.00	6.   Carl Waaler Kaas – 45.00
7.   Simone Niggli – 60.00	8.   Martin Johansson – 100.00	9.   Peter Öberg – 50.00
10.   Matthias Merz – 31.00

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 4
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 4

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular – with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work – and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Pictures for almost every runners have now been identified and sorted by runner and country, and are published on this page. Feel free to use the pictures online as long as you put on a photobyline “Photo: WorldofO.com” and link back to WorldofO.com.

Sorry that the pictures are not the best this time – I hope to get a better photo position in the remaining races. The link below will be updated during the championships – both with pictures and with results.

• Pictures WOC 2009 sorted by country/runner

Graham Gristwood, Baptiste Rollier, Thierry Gueorgiou, Minna Kauppi, Simone Niggli and Marianne Andersen won the six qualification heats in todays Long Qualification. All the top names got through to the finals – but some of the outsiders like Carl Waaler Kaas (old injury got worse during the race) did not manage to be among the top 15 who went to the final.

Most impressive today: Thierry Gueorgiou who says he really wants to win a WOC Gold medal over the Long distance – and today shot a small warning shot with his 58;01 in Heat C.

Map

Below you find maps for men (all three heats in one map) and women (also all heats in one map). A long leg met the runners already to the first control – and also some interesting routechoices in the rest of the course.

• Map men
• Map women

Results

This article will be updated with official results.

Men A (10.4 km, 420 m, 21 Controls):
1 Graham Gristwood GBR 60:05 1313
2 Matthias Merz SUI 60:19 1308
3 Daniel Hubmann SUI 60:36 1302
4 Andrey Khramov RUS 60:52 1296
5 Ionut Zinca ROU 61:10 1290
6 Philippe Adamski FRA 61:37 1280
7 Emil Wingstedt SWE 61:51 1276
8 Simonas Krėpšta LTU 62:01 1272
9 Jan Prochazka CZE 62:08 1270
10 Wojciech Kowalski POL 62:31 1262
11 Klaus Schgaguler ITA 62:46 1256
12 Lukáš Barták SVK 63:07 1249
13 Christian Christensen DEN 63:08 1249
14 Oleksandr Marchuk UKR 63:26 1242
15 Mats Haldin FIN 63:27 1242

Men B (10.5 km, 410 m, 21 Controls):
1 Baptiste Rollier SUI 58:57 1353
2 Francois Gonon FRA 60:03 1328
3 Martin Johansson SWE 60:16 1323
4 Mikhail Mamleev ITA 61:25 1297
5 Anders Nordberg NOR 61:38 1293
6 Topi Anjala FIN 63:07 1259
7 Markus Puusepp EST 63:51 1242
8 Ruslan Glebov UKR 63:57 1240
9 Alexey Bortnik RUS 63:59 1239
10 Kiril Nikolov BUL 64:11 1235
11 Chris Forne NZL 64:23 1230
12 Robert Banach POL 64:30 1228
13 Mārtiņš Sirmais LAT 65:08 1213
14 Jan Mrázek CZE 66:03 1193
15 Zsolt Lenkei HUN 67:51 1152

Men C (10.5 km, 430 m, 22 Controls):
1 Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 58:01 1361
2 Tero Föhr FIN 59:25 1328
3 Ádám Kovács HUN 60:24 1304
4 Peter Öberg SWE 61:45 1271
5 Marc Lauenstein SUI 62:06 1263
6 Jan Šedivý CZE 62:09 1261
7 Olav Lundanes NOR 62:56 1242
8 Scott Fraser GBR 63:11 1236
9 Olle Kärner EST 63:42 1224
10 Marius Mažulis LTU 63:48 1221
11 Michal Krajčík SVK 63:54 1219
12 Fabien Pasquasy BEL 63:56 1218
13 Dmitry Mikhalkin BLR 64:17 1210
14 Yuriy Omelchenko UKR 64:26 1206
15 Dmitriy Tsvetkov RUS 64:32 1204

Women A (6.6 km, 290 m, 15 Controls):
1 Minna Kauppi FIN 45:47 1362
2 Signe Søes DEN 48:19 1286
3 Eva Juřeníková CZE 48:22 1285
4 Esther Gil Brotons ESP 48:43 1274
5 Hanny Allston AUS 49:36 1248
=6 Celine Dodin FRA 51:23 1194
=6 Ildikó Szerencsi HUN 51:23 1194
8 Elise Egseth NOR 51:51 1180
=9 Karin Schmalfeld GER 51:54 1178
=9 Annika Billstam SWE 51:54 1178
11 Caroline Cejka SUI 52:37 1157
12 Radka Brožková CZE 53:35 1128
13 Helen Bridle GBR 54:04 1113
14 Samantha Saeger USA 54:23 1104
15 Inga Kazlauskaite LTU 55:16 1077

Women B (6.7 km, 270 m, 15 Controls):
1 Simone Niggli-Luder SUI 47:22 1350
2 Anni-Maija Fincke FIN 47:48 1336
3 Anne Margrethe Hausken NOR 49:19 1290
4 Helena Jansson SWE 49:35 1282
5 Kathryn Ewels AUS 51:19 1228
6 Martina Rákayová SVK 51:33 1221
7 Galina Vinogradova RUS 52:44 1185
8 Martina Dočkalová CZE 52:45 1184
9 Bernadett Kelemen HUN 53:05 1174
10 Maria Novella Sbaraglia ITA 54:27 1132
11 Liis Johanson EST 54:42 1124
12 Inga Dambe LAT 55:07 1111
13 Capucine Vercellotti FRA 55:21 1104
14 Shuangyan Hao CHN 56:21 1074
15 Olga Sluta UKR 57:21 1043

Women C (6.8 km, 280 m, 15 Controls):
1 Marianne Andersen NOR 48:17 1343
2 Julia Novikova RUS 48:35 1333
3 Dana Brožková CZE 49:28 1306
4 Merja Rantanen FIN 49:51 1294
5 Fanni Gyurkó HUN 50:31 1273
6 Linnea Gustafsson SWE 52:58 1196
7 Maja Alm DEN 54:07 1160
8 Kristīne Kokina LAT 54:19 1154
9 Rasa Ptašekaitė LTU 54:38 1144
10 Amélie Chataing FRA 54:47 1139
=11 Veronica Minoiu ROU 55:20 1122
=11 Angela Wild SUI 55:20 1122
13 Sarah Rollins GBR 55:37 1113
14 Mingyue Zhu CHN 56:35 1083
15 Katarína Labašová SVK 56:49 1076

• Full results Long Qualification available here

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

Starttimes for WOC Long Middle sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2009 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification. There you will also find the results for each country in a nice table.

Important facts

15 runners will go to the final from each qualification heat in both mens and womens class. The men have 10.5 km stipulated to 58 min, the women 6.5-6.8 km (43 min).

• Pictures of most runners from WOC 2009 Middle Qual + WOC 2009 team page with team start list and results for the champs so far in nice overview table
• Live results long Qual. Also live audio and commentary.
• No live video and tracking available from Qualifications

WOC History

Another useful resource is the World of O Runners WOC history page – giving you all the best WOC results for each discipline sorted by country. Who is the best placed Latvian in the Long distance ever? Of course you knew: Ants Grende in 1993. (Note! As you see in the comments, a Latvian runner was better placed in 1989, but she was then running for Russia). We will also try to update these pages during the championships.

Program

The first two days are the most important ones for many of the smaller orienteering nations – then we have qualifications in Middle and Long distance. The first final is the Middle final at Wednesday – whereas the Long final is the last competition in this World Orienteering Champs at Sunday August 23rd.

• Sunday 16.08: Middle Qualification, 10:00-12:00 CET
• Monday 17.08: Long Qualification, 09:00-12:00 CET
• Wednesday 19.08: Middle Final, 10:00-14:15 CET
• Thursday 20.08: (1) Sprint Qualification, 09:00-11:00 CET. (2) Sprint Final, 16:20-19:00 CET
• Friday 21.08: Relay, 11:00-16:30 CET
• Sunday 23.08: Long Final, 11:00 CET – 16:00 CET

Course lengths

For complete information about the courses, see Bulletin 4.

• Middle Qualification: Men 5.1 km (25 min), Women 4.1 km (25 min)
• Long Qualification: Men 10.4-10.5 km (58 min), Women 6.5-6.8 km (43 min)
• Sprint Qualification: Men 2.9 km (14 min), Women 2.5-2.6 km (14 min)
• Sprint Final: Men 3.2 km (15 min), Women 2.6 km (14 min)
• Middle Final: Men 6.6 km (35 min), Women 5.3 km (35 min)
• Long Final: Men 17.6 km (95 min), Women 11.8 km (75 min)
• Relay: Men 6.0-8.8-8.7 (36-53-53), Women 4.9-6.9-7.2 (32-43-45)

Note! The 15 best in each qualification heat will qualify for the final.

Maps and Terrain

We have published a separate article about the maps and the terrain. You find the article about old maps for the competition areas here.

The terrain for all competitions except for the long final and the sprint is described as non-typical karst with a small number of negative features and many point objects. The terrain is quite hilly, and the competitions will be physically though. For the sprint, the terrain is describes as semi-urban with many paths and some erosion features. The long distance final is the most special terrain ? with many negative features and quite stony.

GPS Tracking, Live results and Live tracking

There will be live GPS Tracking form the middle final, long final and relay. Note that GPS-tracking is a pay-service, and you will have to buy a code before you can view the tracking. Tracking is available through www.smartway.hu.

In addition to GPS Tracking, there will be live results, the organizers provide live text commentary, and maps will be presented in RouteGadget after the competitions.

We have not yet decided if we will provide a LiveBlog for discussions at World of O during the races as the organizers already have a live text commentary. However, the LiveBlog will be used for Twitter updates during the WOC week – and if I find some administrators who can be in charge of discussions during the competitions (please email me at jan@kocbach.net), we will support it for discussions throughout the competitions as well. I will be taking photos on site during the competitions – and also sending some info to the LiveBlog via Twitter.

The WOC 2009 live page will soon open to the public, and there you will find links to live results, live tracking etc. See below for the link to the WOC 2009 live page.

• Live results, live tracking, live commentary at the WOC 2009 live page
• WOC 2009 Teams (will be updated!)
• WOC 2009 LiveBlog @ WorldofO.com

WoO Fantasy World Cup

The World of O Fantasy World Cup will continue at the Middle Final at Wednesday august 19th. See the Fantasy World Cup page for more information.

Overview map

Below you see an overview map for the WOC 2009 area (taken from the WOC 2009 page). All competitions except for the long distance final will be help close to Miskolc, whereas the long distance final at the last day of the championships will be held close to the Slovakian border.

Bulletin 4

Are you still missing some basic information about WOC 2009? Take a look at Bulletin number 4 – it gives a lot of useful information .

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

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

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.

Starttimes for WOC Qual Middle sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2009 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification.

Important facts

15 runners will go to the final from each qualification heat in both mens and womens class. The men have 5.1 km stipulated to 25 min, the women 4.1 km (also 25 min).

• Live results middle Qual. Also live audio and commentary.
• WOC 2009 team page + team start list
• No live video and tracking available from Qualifications

WOC History

Another useful resource is the World of O Runners WOC history page – giving you all the best WOC results for each discipline sorted by country. Who is the best placed Latvian in the Long distance ever? Of course you knew: Ants Grende in 1993. (Note! As you see in the comments, a Latvian runner was better placed in 1989, but she was then running for Russia). We will also try to update these pages during the championships.

Program

The first two days are the most important ones for many of the smaller orienteering nations – then we have qualifications in Middle and Long distance. The first final is the Middle final at Wednesday – whereas the Long final is the last competition in this World Orienteering Champs at Sunday August 23rd.

• Sunday 16.08: Middle Qualification, 10:00-12:00 CET
• Monday 17.08: Long Qualification, 09:00-12:00 CET
• Wednesday 19.08: Middle Final, 10:00-14:15 CET
• Thursday 20.08: (1) Sprint Qualification, 09:00-11:00 CET. (2) Sprint Final, 16:20-19:00 CET
• Friday 21.08: Relay, 11:00-16:30 CET
• Sunday 23.08: Long Final, 11:00 CET – 16:00 CET

Course lengths

For complete information about the courses, see Bulletin 4.

• Middle Qualification: Men 5.1 km (25 min), Women 4.1 km (25 min)
• Long Qualification: Men 10.4-10.5 km (58 min), Women 6.5-6.8 km (43 min)
• Sprint Qualification: Men 2.9 km (14 min), Women 2.5-2.6 km (14 min)
• Sprint Final: Men 3.2 km (15 min), Women 2.6 km (14 min)
• Middle Final: Men 6.6 km (35 min), Women 5.3 km (35 min)
• Long Final: Men 17.6 km (95 min), Women 11.8 km (75 min)
• Relay: Men 6.0-8.8-8.7 (36-53-53), Women 4.9-6.9-7.2 (32-43-45)

Note! The 15 best in each qualification heat will qualify for the final.

Maps and Terrain

We have published a separate article about the maps and the terrain. You find the article about old maps for the competition areas here.

The terrain for all competitions except for the long final and the sprint is described as non-typical karst with a small number of negative features and many point objects. The terrain is quite hilly, and the competitions will be physically though. For the sprint, the terrain is describes as semi-urban with many paths and some erosion features. The long distance final is the most special terrain ? with many negative features and quite stony.

GPS Tracking, Live results and Live tracking

There will be live GPS Tracking form the middle final, long final and relay. Note that GPS-tracking is a pay-service, and you will have to buy a code before you can view the tracking. Tracking is available through www.smartway.hu.

In addition to GPS Tracking, there will be live results, the organizers provide live text commentary, and maps will be presented in RouteGadget after the competitions.

We have not yet decided if we will provide a LiveBlog for discussions at World of O during the races as the organizers already have a live text commentary. However, the LiveBlog will be used for Twitter updates during the WOC week – and if I find some administrators who can be in charge of discussions during the competitions (please email me at jan@kocbach.net), we will support it for discussions throughout the competitions as well. I will be taking photos on site during the competitions – and also sending some info to the LiveBlog via Twitter.

The WOC 2009 live page will soon open to the public, and there you will find links to live results, live tracking etc. See below for the link to the WOC 2009 live page.

• Live results, live tracking, live commentary at the WOC 2009 live page
• WOC 2009 Teams (will be updated!)
• WOC 2009 LiveBlog @ WorldofO.com

WoO Fantasy World Cup

The World of O Fantasy World Cup will continue at the Middle Final at Wednesday august 19th. See the Fantasy World Cup page for more information.

Overview map

Below you see an overview map for the WOC 2009 area (taken from the WOC 2009 page). All competitions except for the long distance final will be help close to Miskolc, whereas the long distance final at the last day of the championships will be held close to the Slovakian border.

Bulletin 4

Are you still missing some basic information about WOC 2009? Take a look at Bulletin number 4 – it gives a lot of useful information .

#WOC2009 @ Twitter

Follow the action in at the World Orienteering Champs through Twitter. Below the latest Tweets for #WOC2009 are shown in the LiveBlog. Your tweets including the hash-tag #woc2009 will also show up below. There is also a mobile version of the LiveBlog here.