JWOC Sprint: Maps and Results

Another gold medal for Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) – and gold for Gleb Tikhonov (Russia).  In hot weather in the second largest city of Slovakia, Kosice, the Nordic countries dominated with 4 out of 6 medals and 13 within Top 20.

Medals among the men went to Tikhonov, Jan Petrzela (Czech Republic) and Eskil Kinneberg (Norway). Among the women Emma Klingenberg (Denmark) and Frida Sandberg (Sweden) took silver and bronze, respectively. This was Junior World Championships medal number 18 for Alexandersson!

Fantastic performance by Alexandersson

Alexandersson’s run was a very impressive one – the Swedish runner who already has a World Cup victory among the seniors won all splits except two – and was never more than 2 seconds behind the best split time (see splitsbrowser above).

– 2 seconds from best split time at EVERYTHING. #SICK. Good race? YES!, Alexandersson Tweeted after the race (translated from Swedish).

The men’s race was a much tighter one – but Tikhonov took the victory with 17.3 seconds in the end after a very strong performance in the last half of the race.

Maps and courses

Today’s course was a traditional city sprint in a flat city – but still with quite many route choice options.

– The course had lots of alleyways, and you had to count where to turn. There were a few dead end traps, Canadian Trevor Bray explains at the Team Canada page.

According to the Canadian runner who finished 161st, there were a lot of spectators in the streets.

– The alleys looked like regular doorways so they were hard to see when running at high speed. It was weird to have so many people on the streets watching us. In some places officials waved people to the side when we came running.

Another of the Canadian runners explained that even though the course was challenging, it could have been trickier.

– The course was not as technical as it could have been. There were no difficult traps, but it was still challenging at the high speed.

You find the maps here:

• Map men – map women
• JWOC sprint courses on RouteGadget course viewer
• JWOC sprint courses in RouteGadget (via omaps.worldofo.com)

Results

Results men

1. Tikhonov Gleb                   Russia                   14.05,7

2. Petržela Jan                    Czech Republic           14.23,0   0.17,3

3. Kinneberg Eskil                 Norway                   14.23,4   0.17,7

4. Edsen Jakob Ekhard              Denmark                  14.24,5   0.18,8

5. Regborn Martin                  Sweden                   14.24,7   0.19,0

6. Svensk Emil                     Sweden                   14.26,6   0.20,9

7. Figueiredo Joao                 Portugal                 14.37,2   0.31,5

8. Jarvis Westergard Hakon         Norway                   14.37,8   0.32,1

9. Baumholczer Máté                Hungary                  14.41,1   0.35,4

10. Ogden Matt                      New Zealand              14.43,0   0.37,3

Results women

1. Alexandersson Tove              Sweden                   11.12,8

2. Klingenberg Emma                Denmark                  11.45,3   0.32,5

3. Sandberg Frida                  Sweden                   12.06,9   0.54,1

4. Nurmi Kirsi                     Finland                  12.21,7   1.08,9

5. Myhre Ingjerd                   Norway                   12.23,0   1.10,2

6. Wennemo Oda                     Norway                   12.27,7   1.14,9

7. Savkina Ekaterina               Russia                   12.29,6   1.16,8

8. Narum Marte                     Norway                   12.30,5   1.17,7

9. Klingenberg Ita                 Denmark                  12.51,9   1.39,1

10. Denisova Anastasia              Belarus                  12.53,9   1.41,1

• Full results