EOC Long Final: Map and Results
Extraordinary performance by Simone Niggli – and another great win by Olav Lundanes! No matter if middle distance and long distance – Niggli and Lundanes take the gold medals. Niggli had four(!) minutes down to Tatiana Riabkina in second – Lundanes victory margin was one minute down to Matthias Merz. Minna Kauppi and Valentin Novikov took the bronze medals.
The runners were met by a tough course – with many route choice alternatives. The time differences between the different alternatives were not the biggest – the important thing was again to run fast and stick to your plan.
Maps
Men: – I have improved technically since last year
Lundanes (Gold):
- Physically I had a very good winter training, and I also feel that I have improved technically since last year.
- It was a tough race today. In the beginning I felt good and was running fast. I started feeling tired half way through the race, and the last part was just a lot of fighting.
- The relay is a big goal for us on Sunday – but not more than the other races – We want to win them all.
Merz (Silver):
- Obviously this type of terrain is not too bad for us Swiss. For me personally I feel it was mainly my general experience, which brought results today. It took only a few days of training here to feel quite comfortable with the terrain. But the terrain is unusual for us because we do not have this type of terrain at home
- For the relay we always have a big goal for a medal. For obvious reasons (home ground this year)the world champ relay is the main relay event for us this year.
- We have a big team, and the selection will be tough, but I am sure that this fact will help pushing us to great results
Novikov (Bronze):
- I just decided that I should use full speed for this terrain and didn’t think too much about if it would be good enough for the whole race. Then I thought about it, and decided to continue with this high speed ;)
- The podium on the long is very important for me because the last few years I have not been so good in the long races in Champs. So this has given me a lot of confidence and from now on I also believe in myself on long distance
| 1 | Olav Lundanes | Norway | 12:24:00 | 24:20 (1) | 54:04 (1) | 80:29 (1) | 87:43 (1) | +00:00 |
| 2 | Matthias Merz | Switzerland | 13:24:00 | 25:32 (5) | 55:30 (3) | 81:43 (2) | 88:48 (2) | +01:05 |
| 3 | Valentin Novikov | Russia | 11:48:00 | 24:41 (2) | 54:20 (2) | 81:43 (2) | 89:13 (3) | +01:30 |
| 4 | Anders Nordberg | Norway | 13:42:00 | 24:52 (3) | 55:32 (4) | 82:32 (4) | 90:09 (4) | +02:26 |
| 5 | Marc Lauenstein | Switzerland | 12:48:00 | 26:09 (15) | 57:20 (6) | 83:37 (5) | 90:52 (5) | +03:09 |
| 6 | Oleksandr Kratov | Ukraine | 12:27:00 | 25:20 (4) | 57:00 (5) | 84:46 (6) | 92:41 (6) | +04:58 |
| 7 | Philippe Adamski | France | 13:06:00 | 26:24 (24) | 57:38 (9) | 84:58 (7) | 92:57 (7) | +05:14 |
| 8 | Dmitry Tsvetkov | Russia | 13:39:00 | 25:36 (6) | 58:33 (19) | 85:28 (10) | 92:59 (8) | +05:16 |
| 9 | Hans Gunnar Omdal | Norway | 13:00:00 | 25:39 (8) | 57:20 (6) | 85:11 (8) | 93:21 (9) | +05:38 |
| 10 | Frédéric Tranchand | France | 12:30:00 | 26:35 (26) | 58:08 (14) | 85:54 (11) | 93:42 (10) | +05:59 |
Women: – I could not have run many seconds faster
Niggli (Gold):
- Today I had an almost perfect race. It is not so often that I run this well in a championships race. It was physically and technically a very good race. I could not have run many seconds faster!
- Yes, I was more than 4 minutes faster today, but we are all just women that love orienteering. the diffence today was that I am in very good shape and also managed to have full confidence in my orienteering all the way.
- My goal for the week is to run four stable races. I have now two gold medals, and I am very happy.
Riabkina (Silver):
- The race today was better than yesterday. I tried to go fast all the way. I believe that I chose good route choices today. I took the controls in the detailed areas without any mistakes. This felt very good. At the end of the race it was very tough and I was very tired, but I fought all the way.
- I have to say that my favourite distance is middle, but I also looking forward to the relay
Kauppi (Bronze):
- I am really happy for my medal today, actually. Of course you feel slightly disappointed by being this far behind Simone, but still I am really happy to be here [on the podium] today.
- The middle was my main goal for EOC this year, but I am also looking forward to the relay on Sunday. We have a very strong track record in relay and will of course go for the gold
| 1 | Simone Niggli | Switzerland | 14:13:00 | 16:13 (1) | 34:03 (1) | 56:12 (1) | 61:34 (1) | +00:00 |
| 2 | Tatiana Ryabkina | Russia | 14:10:00 | 17:33 (2) | 36:23 (2) | 59:55 (2) | 65:34 (2) | +04:00 |
| 3 | Minna Kauppi | Finland | 14:04:00 | 17:41 (3) | 37:06 (4) | 60:55 (3) | 66:08 (3) | +04:34 |
| 4 | Tove Alexandersson | Sweden | 13:55:00 | 17:50 (4) | 36:50 (3) | 62:07 (4) | 67:21 (4) | +05:47 |
| 5 | Annika Billstam | Sweden | 13:04:00 | 18:57 (10) | 38:34 (5) | 63:23 (5) | 69:10 (5) | +07:36 |
| 6 | Tone Wigemyr | Norway | 14:07:00 | 18:33 (6) | 39:24 (8) | 64:40 (6) | 70:18 (6) | +08:44 |
| 7 | Mari Fasting | Norway | 13:46:00 | 18:58 (11) | 39:14 (7) | 65:00 (7) | 70:41 (7) | +09:07 |
| 8 | Lina Strand | Sweden | 13:40:00 | 19:33 (17) | 39:44 (9) | 65:13 (8) | 70:49 (8) | +09:15 |
| 9 | Merja Rantanen | Finland | 14:16:00 | 18:39 (7) | 39:09 (6) | 65:55 (9) | 71:47 (9) | +10:13 |
| 10 | Inga Dambe | Latvia | 13:52:00 | 20:38 (26) | 40:33 (13) | 66:15 (10) | 72:13 (10) | +10:39 |
Get set for an intense and interesting week of orienteering in and around Falun, Sweden. The European Championships kicks of the World Cup season – and with most of the World Orienteering elite in place, this is one of the absolute highlights of the season!
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