JWOC Sprint: Live from 10:00 CET

Posted by Jan Kocbach, 05 Jul 2010@8:00

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One of the favorites Gustav Bergman heads out already at 10:00 CET – 2:30 later Manuel Horta starts into the course as the last starter. Thus a long wait for Bergman after he finishes his race in JWOC Sprint – a tough race to win with more than 150 runners in the mens class and nearly 120 runners in the womens class. Being without a qualification race – JWOC sprint is a race were we can get big surprises in the top 10 – as 15 minutes of good running and orienteering is all it takes…

The sprint will be held at the University Campus on the eastern outskirts of Aalborg. The terrain is mainly urban with many architecturally similar single-storey buildings in recurrent patterns. There are canals, footpaths and scattered parking areas. Part of the terrain is residential. The mens course is 2.7 km with 28 controls. The womens course is 2.3 km with 19 controls.

The LiveBlog below will be live during the JWOC Sprint – but might be without moderation and thanks to Ivan Banov we will also have moderation throughout the event. Tweets with hashtag #jwoc or #jwoc2010 will be shown directly in the LiveBlog. In addition, Christian Bobach has promised to contribute to the LiveBlog directly from the arena through his mobile phone. In addition to the LiveBlog, you can follow JWOC sprint through live results on the JWOC page. There is no live speaker sound or GPS tracking at JWOC.

If you are on a mobile phone, you can access the LiveBlog here.

Useful links
Program

The following is the program for JWOC 2010 in Denmark:

  • Monday, July 5th, Sprint 10:00, Aalborg University (old map)
  • Tuesday, July 6th. Long 09:00, Svinkløv (old map)
  • Thursday, July 8th. Middle qualification 10:00, Kollerup (old map)
  • Friday, July 9th. Middle final 09:00, Kollerup (old map)
  • Saturday, July 10th. Relay 10:00, Rebild (old map)
Facts and Course details

There are a total of 137 women and 166 men registered for JWOC 2010.
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JWOC Denmark: All you need to know

Posted by Jan Kocbach, 04 Jul 2010@8:00

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The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint Monday July 5th at 10:00 CET – and continues with Long distance on Tuesday, Middle qualification on Thursday, Middle final on Friday and Relay on Saturday. The JWOC is followed with big interest all over the orienteering world – and starts just the day after a successful EYOC ends in Spain.

This news article will be updated during the JWOC week when new important information is available. Updates:

  • There will be a LiveBlog also for the Sprint – maybe only with Tweets depending on administrators available
  • There will be Live results also from the middle distance (source: e-mail from the organizers)
  • Live results from the events are available here
JWOC 2010 Live coverage

The following Live services is planned from the event: It is planned to follow the Long Final (partly) and the Middle Final through a LiveBlog here at World of O. The organizers will provide live results from all competitions (with possible exception for Middle qualification/final were there is a poor internet connection Update: I have now got a message from the organizers telling me that there will be live results also from the middle distance). There will be no GPS tracking, no live audio and no live video from the events. There will also be nobody representing the organizer at the event site contributing to the LiveBlog. However, the organizers have promised to send maps after the last start – and to provide me with an email address for technical support in case of problems with the live results etc.

Useful links
Program

The following is the program for JWOC 2010 in Denmark:

  • Monday, July 5th, Sprint 10:00, Aalborg University (old map)
  • Tuesday, July 6th. Long 09:00, Svinkløv (old map)
  • Thursday, July 8th. Middle qualification 10:00, Kollerup (old map)
  • Friday, July 9th. Middle final 09:00, Kollerup (old map)
  • Saturday, July 10th. Relay 10:00, Rebild (old map)
Facts and Course details

There are a total of 137 women and 166 men registered for JWOC 2010.
coursedetails

Terrain descriptions (from JWOC page)

Sprint
The sprint will be held at the University Campus on the eastern outskirts of Aalborg. The terrain is mainly urban with many architecturally similar single-storey buildings in recurrent patterns. There are canals, footpaths and scattered parking areas. Part of the terrain is residential.

Long
The long distance area is a relatively level area with a sloped border to the north and west reaching to the sea. Large areas with rich contour detail. The area includes open fields and numerous paths. The forest is dominated by pine and spruce with good to medium runnability. Good visibility.

Middle
The middle distance courses will be set in a forest dominated by pine and spruce. The terrain is relatively level with many contour details. There are several minor roads and footpaths. Good runnability and visibility.

Relay
The relay course will be in an area that is unique, not only to the region, but to all of Denmark. The area has very hilly parts with open vegetation. Contour details are more obvious than the for other JWOC areas. Part of the terrain is dominated by valleys with open to dense spruce vegetation. Hilltop areas afford optimum views of the arena.

LiveBlog

The LiveBlog will be live only during the Long distance and the Middle distance final. I will need help moderating comments to keep it live during all of the long distance, so please send me an email to jan@kocbach.net if you have the possibility to help out.

EYOC Long: Map and Results

Posted by Jan Kocbach, 02 Jul 2010@16:40

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Piotr Parfianowicz (POL), Jon A Osmoen (NOR), Katerina Chromá (CZE) and Franziska Dörig (SUI) took the victories in todays very technical European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance in Soria, Spain.

Maps
Results

Men16

1 177 Piotr Parfianowicz 94 POLAND 53:59
2 166 Márton Kazal 94 HUNGARY 54:16
3 170 Marek Minár 94 CZECH REPUBLIC 55:36
3 165 Alexander Makeychik 94 RUSSIA 55:36
5 175 Apostol Atanasov 95 BULGARIA 58:07
6 163 Luis Silva 94 PORTUGAL 58:42
7 146 Severin Denzler 94 SWITZERLAND 58:44
8 169 Sven Hellmüller 95 SWITZERLAND 59:40
9 145 Joakim Sehested Sie 94 DENMARK 1:00:53
10 156 Valtteri Kolehmainen 94 GERMANY 1:01:11

Men18

1 26 Jon A Osmoen 93 NORWAY 57:17
2 58 Max Peter Beijmer 92 SWEDEN 58:18
3 14 Håkon Westergård 92 NORWAY 58:44
4 86 Jesse Laukkarinen 92 FINLAND 59:00
5 50 Mikko Huhtinen 92 FINLAND 59:03
6 61 Andrey Kozyrev 93 RUSSIA 59:16
7 49 Marek Schuster 93 CZECH REPUBLIC 59:21
8 81 Simen Aamodt 92 NORWAY 59:49
9 36 Michal Hubácek 93 CZECH REPUBLIC 1:00:10
10 57 Marcell Horváth 93 HUNGARY 1:00:17

Women16

1 339 Katerina Chromá 94 CZECH REPUBLIC 45:30
2 355 Lisa Holer 94 SWITZERLAND 45:52
3 359 Lucy Butt 94 GREAT BRITAIN 48:56
4 347 Niamh Corbett 95 IRELAND 49:25
5 343 Daria Korobeynik 95 RUSSIA 50:32
6 346 Milda Radzivonaite 94 LITHUANIA 51:23
7 360 Lauriane Beauvisage 94 FRANCE 51:58
8 334 Anna Mikheeva 94 RUSSIA 53:41
9 326 Lisa Pacher 94 AUSTRIA 55:00
10 314 Lenka Svobodová 95 CZECH REPUBLIC 55:01

Women18

1 223 Franziska Dörig 92 SWITZERLAND 51:24
2 266 Andra Cecilia Anghel 93 ROMANIA 53:00
3 222 Silje U Maurset 92 NORWAY 53:59
4 243 Marion Aebi 93 SWITZERLAND 55:13
5 236 Hanna Axelsson-Meyerson 92 SWEDEN 55:20
6 264 Anja Arbter 93 AUSTRIA 55:22
7 241 Julia Bauer 92 AUSTRIA 55:24
8 247 Petra Pavlovcová 93 CZECH REPUBLIC 55:26
9 250 Henna-Riikka Haikonen 93 FINLAND 55:34
10 259 Madara Freimane LATVIA 55:43

EYOC Preview: Elite of tomorrow live Friday-Sunday

Posted by Jan Kocbach, 01 Jul 2010@8:00

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The orienteering elite of tomorrow have arrived in hot Soria, Spain – and are ready for Friday’s long distance which marks the start of this years European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC). Demanding and varied terrain never previously used for orienteering awaits the runners -you can follow the championships live via GPS tracking, live results, speaker sound and LiveBlog.

EYOC is usually the first international competition arena for promising athletes. Several EYOC winners have proceeded to win the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) later on. Both of the 2008 EYOC winners over the long distance – Matthias Kyburz and Ida Bobach – won JWOC gold medals the following year.

Interesting challenges

More than 300 competitors from 29 countries will participate in this years EYOC. The long distance on Friday will go in pine forested mountain terrain with many rock elements – the forest partly being dense, whereas other parts have very good runnability. The terrain for Saturday’s relay is completely different – half of the terrain being open, the other half covered with an oak tree forest –  full of stones and rock details, given interesting challenging for the runners. Finally the sprint on Sunday is set around the city center of Soria and surrounding parks.

Program:

  • Friday July 2nd: Long distance. First start 11:00 CET
  • Saturday July 3rd: Relay. Start men 11:00 CET. Start women: 11:10 CET
  • Sunday July 4th: Sprint. First start 10:00 CET

Temperatures are currently around 30 degrees Celsius – and with the first start as late as 11:00, this might get very tough for the runners. The forecast indicates some rain for the long distance on Friday, so the runners might be lucky.

Tracking is provided by TracTrac – 40 runners will be tracked in both the long distance and in the relay.

EYOC webpage

All information about EYOC 2010 is available on the EYOC webpage:

LiveBlog directly from Soria

In tight cooperation with the EYOC organizers, World of O will administer a LiveBlog from all EYOC competitions. The LiveBlog will be administered directly from the events – giving you all the action and answers to all your questions. If you have any questions regarding EYOC, feel free to ask in the LiveBlog below at any time. Comments will generally only be moderated/answered during the events – but questions which are asked at other times will be answered later on. All Tweets (via Twitter) with the hash-tags #eyoc or #eyoc2010 will go directly into the LiveBlog without moderation.

Disclaimer: Note that the EYOC organizers have supported World of O with travel costs in order to be present at EYOC to cover the event.

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