Some good runners missed the cut in the WOC sprint qualification today – on a course which by many of the runners was described to be “less technical than expected”.
Some of the negative surprises of the day were Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (Norway), Fredric Portin (Finland), Christian Bobach (Denmark) and Magne Dæhlie (Norway).
Maps and results from the WOC Sprint Qualification are available below.
Results
All 45 runners going to the finals are listed below – 15 in each heat.
Men A
1 Adam Kovacs HUN 13:51 0:00 Qualified
2 Matthias Kyburz SUI 13:53 +0:02 Qualified
3 Jerker Lysell SWE 13:55 +0:04 Qualified
4 Murray Strain GBR 13:56 +0:05 Qualified
5 Tuomo Mäkelä FIN 14:00 +0:09 Qualified
6 Julian Dent AUS 14:03 +0:12 Qualified
7 Vincent Coupat FRA 14:05 +0:14 Qualified
8 Ivaylo Kamenarov BUL 14:13 +0:22 Qualified
9 Robert Krüger GER 14:14 +0:23 Qualified
9 Robert Merl AUT 14:14 +0:23 Qualified
9 Ionut Zinca ROU 14:14 +0:23 Qualified
12 Dmitry Nakonechny RUS 14:17 +0:26 Qualified
13 Tomáš Dlabaja CZE 14:18 +0:27 Qualified
14 Klaus Schgaguler ITA 14:22 +0:31 Qualified
15 Simonas Krepsta LTU 14:23 +0:32 Qualified
Men B
Rank Name Nation Finish Time Behind Qualified
1 Matthias Merz SUI 13:23 0:00 Qualified
2 Scott Fraser GBR 13:41 +0:18 Qualified
3 Jonas Leandersson SWE 13:49 +0:26 Qualified
4 Ulf Forseth Indgaard NOR 13:52 +0:29 Qualified
4 Nicolas Simonin IRL 13:52 +0:29 Qualified
6 Yannick Michiels BEL 13:56 +0:33 Qualified
7 Jan Procházka CZE 14:01 +0:38 Qualified
8 Tuomas Tervo FIN 14:03 +0:40 Qualified
9 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys LTU 14:05 +0:42 Qualified
10 Andreu Blanes Reig ESP 14:11 +0:48 Qualified
11 Tim Robertson NZL 14:12 +0:49 Qualified
12 Alexey Sidorov RUS 14:17 +0:54 Qualified
13 Patrick Goeres CAN 14:19 +0:56 Qualified
14 Søren Bobach DEN 14:21 +0:58 Qualified
15 Wolfgang Siegert AUT 14:27 +1:04 Qualified
Men C
ank Name Nation Finish Time Behind Qualified
1 Frederic Tranchand FRA 13:21 0:00 Qualified
2 Rasmus Thrane Hansen DEN 13:24 +0:03 Qualified
3 Andrey Khramov RUS 13:27 +0:06 Qualified
4 Matthias Müller SUI 13:38 +0:17 Qualified
5 Zsolt Lenkei HUN 13:43 +0:22 Qualified
6 Antonio Martinez ESP 13:47 +0:26 Qualified
7 Anders Holmberg SWE 13:50 +0:29 Qualified
8 Vilius Aleliunas LTU 13:51 +0:30 Qualified
9 Vojtech Král CZE 13:53 +0:32 Qualified
10 Kiril Nikolov BUL 13:54 +0:33 Qualified
11 Michael Crone RSA 13:56 +0:35 Qualified
11 Wojciech Kowalski POL 13:56 +0:35 Qualified
13 Alexander Lubina GER 14:01 +0:40 Qualified
14 Ross Morrison NZL 14:02 +0:41 Qualified
15 David Brickhill-Jones AUS 14:03 +0:42 Qualified
Women A
1 Helena Jansson SWE 13:57 0:00 Qualified
2 Simone Niggli-Luder SUI 14:00 +0:03 Qualified
3 Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg NOR 14:30 +0:33 Qualified
4 Fanni Gyurko HUN 14:50 +0:53 Qualified
5 Venla Niemi FIN 14:52 +0:55 Qualified
6 Greta Knarston NZL 15:01 +1:04 Qualified
7 Claire Ward GBR 15:06 +1:09 Qualified
8 Lea Vercellotti FRA 15:18 +1:21 Qualified
9 Signe Klinting DEN 15:20 +1:23 Qualified
10 Eva Jureníková CZE 15:23 +1:26 Qualified
11 Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova BUL 15:33 +1:36 Qualified
12 Mingyue Zhu CHN 15:35 +1:38 Qualified
13 Mikiko Minagawa JPN 15:39 +1:42 Qualified
14 Raquel Costa POR 15:42 +1:45 Qualified
15 Gabija Ražaityte LTU 15:49 +1:52 Qualified
Women B
1 Lizzie Ingham NZL 14:08 0:00 Qualified
2 Heidi Østlid Bagstevold NOR 14:12 +0:04 Qualified
3 Alison Crocker USA 14:13 +0:05 Qualified
4 Lena Eliasson SWE 14:17 +0:09 Qualified
5 Judith Wyder SUI 14:18 +0:10 Qualified
6 Tessa Hill GBR 14:35 +0:27 Qualified
7 Sofia Haajanen FIN 14:52 +0:44 Qualified
8 Nataliya Dimitrova BUL 14:54 +0:46 Qualified
9 Anastasiya Tikhonova RUS 14:55 +0:47 Qualified
10 Daria Lajn POL 14:58 +0:50 Qualified
11 Kim Geypen BEL 15:04 +0:56 Qualified
12 Celine Dodin FRA 15:05 +0:57 Qualified
13 Inga Kazlauskaite LTU 15:10 +1:02 Qualified
14 Yingwei Wang CHN 15:12 +1:04 Qualified
15 Esther Doetsch GER 15:16 +1:08 Qualified
Women C
Rank Name Nation Finish Time Behind Qualified
1 Annika Billstam SWE 13:32 0:00 Qualified
2 Silje Ekroll Jahren NOR 13:48 +0:16 Qualified
3 Svetlana Mironova RUS 13:56 +0:24 Qualified
4 Rahel Friederich SUI 14:04 +0:32 Qualified
4 Ildiko Szerencsi HUN 14:04 +0:32 Qualified
6 Hanna Wisniewska POL 14:12 +0:40 Qualified
7 Catherine Taylor GBR 14:13 +0:41 Qualified
8 Maja Alm DEN 14:15 +0:43 Qualified
8 Iveta Duchová CZE 14:15 +0:43 Qualified
10 Ursula Kadan AUT 14:16 +0:44 Qualified
11 Marika Teini FIN 14:20 +0:48 Qualified
12 Annika Rihma EST 14:21 +0:49 Qualified
13 Amélie Chataing FRA 14:23 +0:51 Qualified
14 Shuangyan Hao CHN 14:28 +0:56 Qualified
15 Ausrine Kutkaite LTU 14:36 +1:04 Qualified
We in South Africa are very excited and proud of Michael Crone becoming the first-ever South African to make a WOC final. It is a great day for us :-)