POM Day 3 WRE: Map and Results

Jan Kocbach February 20, 2012 Orienteering News Comments Off on POM Day 3 WRE: Map and Results

[Updated with full map] Thierry Gueorgiou did it again: Crushing the competition in Portugal O-meeting – running an incredible sub 34-minute time on the 6.4 km course. Daniel Hubmann was closest – nearly 1:30 behind. In the women’s class Lina Strand took the victory – after Simone Niggli lost the victory due to a 2-minute time loss in the last part of the course.

The start field was a World Cup race worthy – especially in the men’s class were Olav Lundanes, Matthias Kyburz, Oleksander Kratov. Philippe Adamski, Tue Lassen, Baptiste Rollier and Dmitiy Tsvetskov followed Gueorgiou.

– The best terrain I found in Portugal, Thierry Gueorgiou said after his impressive win. – It was a very nice middle distance course with many micro route choices. It was really important to not get lost in the green.

In the women’s class Lina Strand’s victory was with nearly half a minute – with Lena Eliasson in third just behind Niggli. From Eliasson down to number 4 there was a gap of more than 3:30.

Video interview: Thierry Gueorgiou and Lina Strand

[Note! Not optimal sound/video quality for the interview]

Maps

Thanks to the organizers for providing full maps:

Partial maps:

Webroute – what would you choose, Men 1-2?

This leg from 1-2 is typical of the type of challenges you meet in this type of terrain. You can choose to go all the way around to the left, but that is bound to be too long. Going straight is shortest – and probably also fastest if you can still hit the control at full speed. Going right and following the small path the first part of the leg you can keep high speed while still knowing where you are – but then you are “trapped” and need to cross over. Probably the best choice is a straight variant where you use the path in the green ahead of the control and the big cliffs just to the northwest of the control in securing a good hit.

Results men

1	101	Thierry Gueorgiou	79	[5326] G1 France O Team	33:51
2	102	Daniel Hubmann	83	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	35:17
3	107	Olav Lundanes	87	[5285] G1 Halden SK	35:40
4	111	Mathias Kyburz	90	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	35:59
5	108	Oleksander Kratov		[5303] G5 Orievents Team	36:28
6	104	Philippe Adamski	85	[5326] G1 France O Team	36:35
7	110	Tue Lassen	85	[5134] G1 Danish NT	36:40
8	103	Baptiste Rollier	82	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	37:07
9	123	Dmitriy Tsvetkov	83	[5102] Dmitriy Tsvetkov	38:01
10	116	Tomas Dlabaja	83	[5099] OOB TJ Turnov	38:08

Results women

1	510	Lina Strand	88	[5284] G1 Göteborg-Majorna	37:55
2	562	Simone Niggli	78	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	38:22
3	502	Lena Eliasson		[5302] G5 Domnarvets GoIF	38:25
4	514	Saila Kinni	87	[5201] Tampereen Pyrintö	42:08
5	522	Céline Dodin	79	[5326] G1 France O Team	42:56
6	505	Rahel Friederich	86	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	43:09
7	509	Sara Lucher	86	[5137] G1 Swiss Orient	43:23
8	590	Annica Gustafsson		[5322] G1 IFK LidingöSOK	43:24
9	516	Nadya Volinska		[5303] G5 Orievents Team	43:42
10	535	Riina Kuuselo	78	[1816] Individual GBR	44:00