World of O News
Yet another victory for Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli in technical Portuguese terrain! This third day of the Portugal O-meeting was the highlight of the races – a fast paced middle distance race with World Ranking status. 6.1 km in 28:41 means that you have to keep full focus all the way. Gueorgiou and Niggli both won the Portugal O-meeting last year as well.
– Altough some health problems ruining his training week and making him rest on POM’s first day, he started strongly winning yesterday and on today’s WRE he left second place Oleksandr Kratov 1:55 behind. Jonas Gvildys surprisingly took 3rd place leaving behind Adamski in 4th and Fohr in 5th, the organizers report.
In the womens class, Niggli got a very tough fight for the victory today. Five women within 1 minute – closest to Niggli was Maja Møller Alm, 39 seconds down. Young Tove Alexandersson and Venla Niemi followed one second behind Møller Alm.
Tomorrow is the closing day of Portugal’O’Meeting using the same Arena and a wider map for a closing long distance event.
Results Men – POM Day 3
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1 100 Thierry Gueorgiou [4671] Kalevan Rasti 28:41
2 107 Oleksandr Kratov 85 [1999] OK Orion 30:36
3 126 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 87 [4489] Rehns Bk 31:51
4 109 Philippe Adamski [4671] Kalevan Rasti 32:02
5 106 Tero Föhr 80 [4708] Team Finland 32:08
6 101 Matthias Mueller 82 [4387] Swiss Orienteer 32:13
7 127 Olle Boström 90 [4706] Järla 32:14
8 120 Søren Bobach 89 [4679] Danish National 32:23
9 131 Wojciech Dwojak 81 [052] GD4C 32:47
10 116 Hannu Airila [4671] Kalevan Rasti 32:50
Results Women – POM Day 3
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1 300 Simone Niggli 82 [4387] Swiss Orienteer 34:04
2 305 Maja Møller Alm 88 [4679] Danish National 34:43
3 312 Tove Alexandersson 92 [4408] Stora Tuna OK 34:44
3 354 Venla Niemi 90 [4708] Team Finland 34:44
5 311 Amelie Chataing [4671] Kalevan Rasti 34:56
6 307 Maria Rantala 80 [4708] Team Finland 35:03
7 322 Heini Wennman 86 [4736] SK Pohjantähti 35:29
8 302 Vroni Koenig-Salmi 69 [4387] Swiss Orienteer 35:57
9 327 Saila Kinni 87 [4708] Team Finland 36:04
10 303 Signe Søes 83 [4679] Danish National 36:17
