Portugal O-meeting WRE: Maps and Results

Jan Kocbach March 7, 2011 Orienteering News Comments Off on Portugal O-meeting WRE: Maps and Results

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

Photo: Freestyle-spirit.com

    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

Photo: Freestyle-spirit.com

    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