Portugal O-meeting: Adamski and Niggli take the first (map)

Jan Kocbach March 6, 2011 Orienteering News Comments Off on Portugal O-meeting: Adamski and Niggli take the first (map)

Portugal O-meeting 2011 (POM 2011)- the biggest of the winter time events in Spain/Portugal in February/March – started Saturday with a long distance race. The race was won by Philippe Adamski and Simone Niggli. The terrain on this first day of POM 2011 was quite fast and not the most technical one – expect more challenging terrain for the coming races in POM. A typical comment from the runners was “The orienteering wasn’t very hard, but the race was very fast and funny.”

The most prestigious event is the World Ranking event on Monday

POM 2011 is a 4 day event consisting of a long distance on Saturday, a middle distance on Sunday, a middle distance with World Ranking status on Monday and another long distance race on Monday. The most prestigious event is the World Ranking event on Monday – expect a real fight for victory there!

The highest scored World Ranking points ever was at POM 2007 by Thierry Gueorgiou with 1516 points. Damien Renard (2nd, 1473 points) has the third highest World Ranking score ever from the same event. Simone Niggli scored the 4th highest World Ranking points in 2009 at POM 2009.

Results – Men, POM Day 1
1. Philippe Adamski 1:07:24
2. Oleksandr Kratov 1:08:03
3. Jera Pajunen 1:08:37
4. Tero Föhr 1:08:42
5. Pasi Ikonen 1:08:58
6. Scott Fraser 1:09:22
7. Wojciech Kowalski 1:09:28
8. Wojciech Dwojak 1:09:33
9. Tiago Aires 1:09:39
10. Andreas Ruedlinger 1:09:54

Results – Women, POM Day 1

1. Simone Niggli 1:03:40
2. Minna Kauppi 1:07:00
3. Signe Søes 1:10:52
4. Vroni Koenig-Salmi 1:11:11
5. Nadiya Volynska 1:11:38
6. Martina Zverinova 1:12:48
7. Rahel Friederich 1:13:02
8. Aija Skrastina 1:14:05
9. Rachael Elder 1:14:22
10. Venla Niemi 1:14:31