World of O News
– I said to my team mates ahead of the race that only 6 teams have won 10Mila 2 years in a row, and I wanted to be one of them, Thierry Gueorgiou commented after taking Kalevan Rasti to victory in 10Mila just as last year. His team mates made it easy for Gueoriou this year.- I thought I had just a perfect starting position for the last leg. It is very comfortable to have such a big lead, because you can choose which speed you want to use and where.
Exactly like last year, Fabian Hertner set the table for Thierry Gueorgiou on the 9th leg, running away from the other teams on shear running speed. Gueorgiou continued with great speed and excellent orienteering.
A recap of the relay (scroll down to the bottom for the LiveBlog):
- Kiril Nikolov (Kalevan Rasti) took the first leg – putting KR where they wanted already from the start. All top teams were still in the fight.
1 Kiril Nikolov Kalevan Rasti 1 01:11:26 00:00:00 2 Rickard Ohlsson Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 01:11:29 00:00:03 3 Sigge Lundedal Jensen OK Denseln 1 01:11:32 00:00:06 4 Vytautas Beliunas Hellas Orientering 1 01:11:33 00:00:07 5 Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen Ås-UMB Orientering 1 01:11:36 00:00:10 6 Henrik Väisänen Hiisirasti 1 01:11:39 00:00:13 7 Christian Bøen Kristiansand OK 1 01:11:45 00:00:19 8 Erik Öhlund Ulricehamns OK 1 01:11:55 00:00:29 9 Jan-Baptiste Bourrin OK Hällen 1 01:12:01 00:00:35 10 Antti Anttonen Vaajakosken Terä 1 01:12:02 00:00:36 - Jostein Andersen (Kristiansand) took the lead after the second leg. Kalevan Rasti was one minute behind in third spot. Several of the big favourites lost time – Halden 4:00 behind. However, as you will see below, this was no big problem as all were together after the long night.
1 Jostein Andersen Kristiansand OK 1 02:32:59 00:00:00 2 Håvard Lucasen Ås-UMB Orientering 1 02:34:06 00:01:07 3 Miika Hernelahti Kalevan Rasti 1 02:34:09 00:01:10 4 Pavlo Ushkvarok Stora Tuna OK 1 02:36:45 00:03:46 5 Espen Fiskum NTNUI 1 02:36:46 00:03:47 6 Bjørn Ekeberg IL Tyrving 1 02:36:50 00:03:51 7 Topi Anjala Ikaalisten NV 1 02:36:56 00:03:57 8 Lukas Peterson IFK Umeå 1 02:36:58 00:03:59 9 Vincent Coupat Halden SK 1 02:36:59 00:04:00 10 Daniel Attås OK Tisaren 1 02:37:02 00:04:03 - The third leg was the big highlight of the relay -with a lot of mistakes among the top teams. In the end Kalevan Rasti got a small lead, after being behind several times. Everybody on the LiveBlog thought Kalevan Rasti would 100% sure be first in, then 100% sure that Kristiansand would be first, then Kristiansand, then Kalevan Rasti.
1 Hannu Airila Kalevan Rasti 1 03:47:35 00:00:00 2 Christian Christensson IFK Göteborg 1 03:47:48 00:00:13 3 Matthias Niggli Ulricehamns OK 1 03:47:52 00:00:17 4 Isak Bergman Kristiansand OK 1 03:48:03 00:00:28 5 Per Brolund OK Denseln 1 03:48:29 00:00:54 6 Erik Axelsson Halden SK 1 03:48:31 00:00:56 7 Anders Carlsson IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 03:49:04 00:01:29 8 Jostein Nørbech IL Tyrving 1 03:49:14 00:01:39 9 Ola Martner Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 03:49:32 00:01:57 10 Simo-Pekka Fincke Kalevan Rasti 2 03:51:12 00:03:37 - On the 4th leg (the long night leg) all top teams got together again (except for Tampereen Pyrintö, Vaajakosten Terä), and it was just as the relay was started anew at the start of the 5th leg. TuMe took the leg victory after a strong finish.
1 Kalvis CK Mihailovs Turun Metsänkävijät 1 05:27:41 00:00:00 2 Patrik Martner IFK Göteborg 1 05:27:45 00:00:04 3 Jere Pajunen Kalevan Rasti 1 05:27:47 00:00:06 4 Olle Boström Järla Orientering 1 05:27:48 00:00:07 5 Jonn Are Myhren IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 05:27:50 00:00:09 6 Jon Pedersen Halden SK 1 05:27:51 00:00:10 7 Kristian Algers OK Hällen 1 05:27:51 00:00:10 8 David Schneider Vehkalahden Veikot 1 05:27:55 00:00:14 9 Jim Øystein Nybråten IL Tyrving 1 05:27:57 00:00:16 10 Anders Kleist OK Denseln 1 05:27:59 00:00:18 - The 5th leg is where things started to happen with respect to the final result. Halden took the leg – just some seconds ahead of Kalevan Rasti. Audun Bjerkreim Nilsen (Kristiansand) lost 4 minutes – a gap KOK never managed to close again. On this leg we also lost VeVe (Matti Töyrylä) – loosing 12 minutes.
1. Magne Dæhli Halden SK 1 06:17:54 00:00:00 2 Adam Chromy Kalevan Rasti 1 06:18:04 00:00:10 3 Anton Östlin Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 06:18:04 00:00:10 4 Christian Hjalmarsson IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 06:18:05 00:00:11 5 Janis Krumins Turun Metsänkävijät 1 06:18:07 00:00:13 6 Jakob Jansson Järla Orientering 1 06:18:15 00:00:21 7 Audun Bjerkreim Nilsen Kristiansand OK 1 06:22:02 00:04:08 8 Christian Tingström Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 06:22:14 00:04:20 9 Jonas Engström OK Hällen 1 06:22:16 00:04:22 10 Mattias Eriksson OK Denseln 1 06:22:33 00:04:39 - The 6th leg was were Halden lost the possibility for victory with Marius Bjugan loosing more than 3 minutes. SNO took the leg victory ahead of Kalevan Rasti and Järla.
1. Jonas Leandersson Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 07:06:19 00:00:00 2 Simo Martomaa Kalevan Rasti 1 07:06:25 00:00:06 3 Martin Härberg Järla Orientering 1 07:06:33 00:00:14 4 Marius Bjugan Halden SK 1 07:09:25 00:03:06 5 Oleksandr Starov OK Denseln 1 07:10:20 00:04:01 6 Erik Thorsson Turun Metsänkävijät 1 07:10:31 00:04:12 7 Anders Hedman IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 07:10:57 00:04:38 8 Vegard Danielsen Kristiansand OK 1 07:13:13 00:06:54 9 Johan Strand Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 07:15:21 00:09:02 10 Per Öberg OK Hällen 1 07:15:36 00:09:17 - The 7th leg Kalevan Rasti took over the lead with Jan Prochazka – but still the same three teams together in the top. Halden looses two more minutes with Søren Bobach – now more than 5 minutes behind.
1 Jan Prochazka Kalevan Rasti 1 07:43:23 00:00:00 2 Pål Skogtjärn Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 07:43:25 00:00:02 3 Kaspar Hägler Järla Orientering 1 07:43:40 00:00:17 4 Søren Bobach Halden SK 1 07:48:25 00:05:02 5 Klaus Schgaguler IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 07:51:34 00:08:11 6 Manu Mutka Turun Metsänkävijät 1 07:53:31 00:10:08 7 Erik Pettersson OK Denseln 1 07:53:31 00:10:08 8 Philipp Sauter Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 07:54:26 00:11:03 9 Andreas Høye Kristiansand OK 1 07:54:45 00:11:22 10 Sören Schwartz IFK Göteborg 1 08:00:50 00:17:27 - The 8th leg no big changes in the top three – but Järla looses contact with the two top teams. Now SNO in the lead just ahead of Kalevan Rasti. Emil Wingstedt does a great race for Halden, now only 2:29 behind. Still it was not enough to get contact.
1 Scott Fraser Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 08:49:10 00:00:00 2 Philippe Adamski Kalevan Rasti 1 08:49:11 00:00:01 3 Espen Hultgreen Weltzien Järla Orientering 1 08:49:45 00:00:35 4 Emil Wingstedt Halden SK 1 08:51:39 00:02:29 5 Filip Dahlgren IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 08:57:41 00:08:31 6 Edgars Bertuks Turun Metsänkävijät 1 09:00:02 00:10:52 7 Erik Andersson OK Denseln 1 09:00:03 00:10:53 8 Johan Runesson Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 09:01:46 00:12:36 9 Mats Dahlén Kristiansand OK 1 09:03:45 00:14:35 10 Jonas Pilblad IFK Göteborg 1 09:08:01 00:18:51 - On the 9th leg, Fabian Hertner simply run away from the others due to higher running speed – just like last year. Thus he gave Gueorgiou the gap he needed to make it as an individual race.
1 Fabian Hertner Kalevan Rasti 1 09:32:34 00:00:00 2 Graham Gristwood Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 09:34:31 00:01:57 3 Mats Haldin Halden SK 1 09:36:46 00:04:12 4 Martin Vister Järla Orientering 1 09:41:35 00:09:01 5 Øystein Kvaal Østerbø IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 09:45:36 00:13:02 6 Lucas Basset OK Denseln 1 09:45:40 00:13:06 7 Martin Hubmann Kristiansand OK 1 09:48:15 00:15:41 8 Raffael Huber Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 09:48:28 00:15:54 9 Kimmo Pajula Turun Metsänkävijät 1 09:49:08 00:16:34 10 Marius T Ödum IFK Göteborg 1 09:55:13 00:22:39 - The 10th leg was easy match for Kalevan Rasti and Thierry Gueorgiou. Nobody was every even close to catching Gueorgiou.
1 Thierry Gueorgiou Kalevan Rasti 1 10:56:12 00:00:00 2 Olav Lundanes Halden SK 1 10:59:26 00:03:14 3 Matthias Müller Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 1 11:00:12 00:04:00 4 Anders Holmberg Järla Orientering 1 11:10:19 00:14:07 5 Erik Johansson Göteborg/Majorna OK 1 11:12:47 00:16:35 6 Olle Kalered OK Denseln 1 11:12:50 00:16:38 7 Baptiste Rollier Kristiansand OK 1 11:12:59 00:16:47 8 Fredrik Johansson IFK Lidingös Skid o OK 1 11:17:11 00:20:59 9 Martins Sirmais Turun Metsänkävijät 1 11:20:02 00:23:50
Below you can replay all the excitement in both the men and women relay in the LiveBlog – scroll all the way to the bottom to get the finish. Thanks for all 4400 readers on the LiveBlog during the 10Mila day & night, the moderators posting 550 comments and the viewers posting more than 1200 comments! Welcome back at the Jukola LiveBlog in June!
