World of O News
Marc Lauenstein took a surprise victory for Switzerland and Minna Kauppi is finally back on the top with another World Cup victory. The long distance chasing start in Liberec was a tough one – with more than 1:40 running time in the mens class and 80 minutes in the women’s class.
Marc Lauenstein had start number 14 – and headed into the forest 2:10 behind Thierry Gueorgiou. Gueorgiou started first as yesterday’s winner Pasi Ikonen could not start due to stomach sickness.
Maps
The course was varied with several butterflies and some very long legs. Both the men and the women had the same very long leg to the first control – below you see one illustration for the mens long leg and including routes and a corresponding illustration for the women. Interestingly, the women are fastest when going far left, whereas the men are fastest when going direct. Gueorgiou lost more than a minute already to the first control by taking a left choice – whereas the fastest 4-5 women go left. And none of the women choose the direct variant which is fastest for the men.
Complete map/GPS-tracking:
Links and stories
- Replay online webTV from the long distance chasing start
- World of O: WC Middle Liberec: Maps and Results – Published 2011-09-24 18:00:00
- Pasi Ikonen: 1st in World Cup race in Liberec! – Published 2011-09-25 08:35:00
- International O-Federation: Ikonen winner of Men?s Middle distance with – Published 2011-09-24 13:22:00
- David Andersson: World Cup Liberéc – Published 2011-09-24 16:42:00
- International O-Federation: Brozkova wins World Cup Middle on home – Published 2011-09-24 11:41:00
- Norwegian O-Federation: Sterk jaktstart av Fasting – Published 2011-09-24 22:00:00
- Celine Dodin: Coupe du Monde – Etape 7 – Published 2011-09-24 22:00:00
- Orientering.dk: Maja og Signe i top 10 på – Published 2011-09-24 16:00:00
- Swiss Orienteering: Hubmann weiter Top – Published 2011-09-24 15:59:00
- Halden SK Elite: Olav Lundanes på 5.plass WC i Liberec – Published 2011-09-24 16:28:00
- German O-Federation: Susen Lösch beste Deutsche in Liberec – Published 2011-09-24 22:00:00
- Swiss Orienteering: Weltcup-Sieg für Lauenstein – Published 2011-09-25 11:23:00
Results
Men
1. Marc Lauenstein SUI 41.35 (14) 101.40 ( 1) 143.15
2. Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 39.25 ( 2) 104.13 ( 3) 143.38 0.23
3. Topi Anjala FIN 41.51 (18) 102.28 ( 2) 144.19 1.04
4. Daniel Hubmann SUI 40.06 ( 4) 105.02 ( 4) 145.08 1.53
5. William Lind SWE 40.38 ( 7) 105.18 ( 6) 145.56 2.41
6. Mats Haldin FIN 41.47 (16) 105.29 ( 7) 147.16 4.01
7. Jerker Lysell SWE 42.56 (29) 105.12 ( 5) 148.08 4.53
8. Matthias Merz SUI 41.33 (13) 106.44 (11) 148.17 5.02
9. Gernot Kerschbaumer AUT 40.00 ( 3) 108.31 (20) 148.31 5.16
10. Erik Rost SWE 43.02 (30) 105.33 ( 8) 148.35 5.20
Women
1. Minna Kauppi FIN 39.56 ( 2) 78.43 ( 3) 118.39
2. Dana Šafka Brožková CZE 39.38 ( 1) 79.26 ( 8) 119.04 0.25
3. Tove Alexandersson SWE 40.31 ( 4) 78.48 ( 4) 119.19 0.40
4. Signe Søes DEN 42.48 ( 8) 76.55 ( 1) 119.43 1.04
5. Eva Juřeníková CZE 42.02 ( 6) 77.54 ( 2) 119.56 1.17
6. Ines Brodmann SUI 41.56 ( 5) 79.02 ( 5) 120.58 2.19
7. Maja Møller Alm DEN 42.41 ( 7) 79.02 ( 5) 121.43 3.04
8. Lena Eliasson SWE 43.25 ( 9) 81.04 (12) 124.29 5.50
9. Mari Fasting NOR 45.25 (19) 81.05 (13) 126.30 7.51
10. Rahel Friederich SUI 44.24 (12) 82.08 (16) 126.32 7.53
Whats happened with Helena? Why is DNS?
The first runners lost of time on the way to first control because of high grass in the field. Lot of tracks for late runners and womens.
Thanks for info! Not too nice for the ones starting first, though..
It could be intresting to have a closer look at the loops effect and fairness.
It would indeed. You are usually up to it? :)
As I understood, they gave runners loops based on every second runner arriving getting the same loop, not based on startnumber? That is one step in the direction of dead running if that is so?
Really? I am not sure if that would be better or worse than a rigid switch under the yesterdays circumstances.
The longer I think about the more critical I am about the yesterday course setting… :-P
Another aspect is, that yesterdays race first part was a rather realistic simulation of what they plan the futures WOC Middle Distance to be. 44 runners in five minutes on a Middle. Gosh! :-)
possible to do some tactics?
If you are in group with Guergiou and some hanging guy you should try to be third in order to get same forking than Thierry?
Or Thierry should try to be 2nd to get different forking than other two?
Btw. how they controlled that runners took loops in right order? Did they keep track when giving out maps (difficult with large groups?) or just checked at the finish which map each runner had?
the map exchange was not based on the st.# but by the order the runners arrived to the map exchange. The maps were given in this order A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D, etc. as they were 4 loops in the butterfly.
It’s long known fact butterflies does not work well for mass start/chase and are not fair either. It worked here a usual, some got free ride in nice group, some had to run on their own or with slower group – up to luck.
On the other hand, interval start middle was far more interesting and exiting to spectate on TV and on site too I guess. If spectators find interval start more interesting and it does better TV show and is less expensive to make, then who actually want this chase format. Athletes??