WOC Long Qual: SuperQuick GPS Analysis & Results

The Long Qualification courses had one really interesting route choice leg – the long leg from 4-5 in the men’s heats / 2-3 in the women’s heats. The rest of the course was all about accurate orienteering – especially direction running and actually finding the control point.

Typically, the route choice leg was not the most decisive in the course – however the route choice legs may very well be decisive in the final, so let us take a look at it. There was GPS-tracking only for the men, and thus this article is focused on the men’s course.

Men Heat 3

Above you see selected routes for the long leg in Heat 3 (click on it for bigger illustration). The routes are colored by split time – the fastest being green and the slowest red. Generally you can observe that the northern routes are faster (green), whereas the southern routes are slower. This is, however, just the case for this specific 5th control. As you will see below, the fastest route in Heat 1 is run on the south side of the big marsh.

In Heat 1 Peeter Pihl is the fastest with 12:14, one second ahead of Baptiste Rollier. Tue Lassen going all the way north on the road loses nearly a minute – nearly all of that is due to the extra length. Lassen runs around 400 meter longer than Rollier. Omdal loses some 15 seconds by avoiding the road (road running is not Omdal’s biggest strength) and running shorter. Even shorter runs Tero Föhr, but he chooses a route which is close to the marsh which is very wet these days.

Men All Heats

Here you see a similar illustration, except runners in all heats are compared. This is not a fully fair comparison, as the heats have different controls. It nevertheless illustrates a few points,

• Bertuks runs a very good leg urther to the south than most of the other favourites. Good terrain knowledge based on similar terrain in Latvia, or just running very fast today? Generally Bertuks had high speed – several smaller mistakes – but still won his heat.
• Gueorgiou also runs at the south side of the line, but looses compared to Bertuks on the last part of the leg. Neither marsh nor up-and-down in the end of the leg seems very fast.
• Novikov runs to the south – with a nice, big S-curve. Too long to run south – and too much up and down. Around 2 minutes lost.
• Hubmann runs north – with high speed – and makes a good leg to the control point his heat has.
• Merz also runs well on the leg, but makes a mistake into the control.

There is no simple conclusion on this leg valid for all heats, but generally although there are some time differences, a well executed route choice should not lose you more than 60 seconds – and several runners had larger mistakes than that elsewhere.
See also:

• WOC 2013: All you need to know
• WOC Long Qual: Live from 08:30 CET – including a look at the favourites, outsiders and dark horses for the long distance

Maps

• Map Heat 1 – see also men with all heata (with GPS)
• GPS-tracking
• Maps will be available here

Results

Below results for Top 20 in each heat are shown. The 15 best from each heat went to the finals.

1	280		Edgars Bertuks	Latvia	1:06:03
2	264		Yury Tambasov	Belarus	1:06:29	+26
3	224		Dmitriy Tsvetkov	Russia	1:06:51	+48
4	289		Timo Sild	Estonia	1:06:56	+53
5	244		Philippe Adamski	France	1:08:15	+2:12
6	233		Matthias Merz	Switzerland	1:08:19	+2:16
7	237		Anders Nordberg	Norway	1:08:22	+2:19
8	228		Stepan Kodeda	Czech Republic	1:08:36	+2:33
9	296		Fredrik Johansson	Sweden	1:09:52	+3:49
10	278		Zsolt Lenkei	Hungary	1:10:49	+4:46
11	271		Kiril Nikolov	Bulgaria	1:12:38	+6:35
12	251		Simo-Pekka Fincke	Finland	1:13:03	+7:00
13	255		Diogo Miguel	Portugal	1:14:56	+8:53
14	273		Roger Casal	Spain	1:15:49	+9:46
15	282		Pavel Gvozdev	Israel	1:18:47	+12:44
16	219		Vytautas Beliknas	Lithuania	1:21:13	+15:10
17	253		Matthew Speake	Great Britain	1:21:42	+15:39
18	269		Matjaž `tanfel	Croatia	1:22:01	+15:58
19	242		Roman Dolgikh	Ukraine	1:22:45	+16:42
20	206		Manuel Negrello	Italy	1:22:52	+16:49

1	283		Jani Lakanen	Finland	1:04:49
2	274		Thierry Gueorgiou	France	1:05:29	+40
3	229		Leonid Novikov	Russia	1:06:18	+1:29
4	285		Magne Dæhli	Norway	1:06:25	+1:36
5	281		Jan Sedivy	Czech Republic	1:06:31	+1:42
6	276		Daniel Hubmann	Switzerland	1:06:40	+1:51
7	272		Mateusz Wenslaw	Poland	1:08:31	+3:42
8	254		Søren Schwartz Sørensen	Denmark	1:10:09	+5:20
9	245		Simonas Krpata	Lithuania	1:12:00	+7:11
10	211		Johan Runesson	Sweden	1:12:09	+7:20
11	218		Andrey Salin	Belarus	1:13:25	+8:36
12	213		J nis Kkms	Latvia	1:14:01	+9:12
13	290		Nicolas Simonin	Ireland	1:15:36	+10:47
14	294		Tiago Aires	Portugal	1:16:31	+11:42
15	249		Markus Lang	Austria	1:17:47	+12:58
16	258		Pieter Hendrickx	Belgium	1:20:23	+15:34
17	222		Bjarne Friedrichs	Germany	1:21:03	+16:14
18	202		Alexey Marchenko	Israel	1:22:18	+17:29
19	256		Roberto Dallavalle	Italy	1:23:42	+18:53
20	238		Tane Cambridge	New Zealand	1:23:56	+19:07

1	221		Tero Föhr	Finland	1:05:06
2	223		Baptiste Rollier	Switzerland	1:05:36	+30
3	203		Hans Gunnar Omdal	Norway	1:05:54	+48
4	259		Peeter Pihl	Estonia	1:07:12	+2:06
5	216		Jan Petrzela	Czech Republic	1:08:09	+3:03
6	266		Valentin Novikov	Russia	1:08:11	+3:05
7	234		Anders Holmberg	Sweden	1:08:14	+3:08
8	261		Ralph Street	Great Britain	1:08:34	+3:28
9	275		Tue Lassen	Denmark	1:09:15	+4:09
10	288		Vilius Aleliknas	Lithuania	1:12:02	+6:56
11	293		Mikhail Mamleev	Italy	1:12:31	+7:25
12	230		Sören Lösch	Germany	1:14:09	+9:03
13	248		Kalvis Mihailovs	Latvia	1:14:10	+9:04
14	241		Aleksei Alekseyonok	Belarus	1:14:52	+9:46
15	205		Artem Panchenko	Ukraine	1:18:42	+13:36
16	212		Neil Dobbs	Ireland	1:21:32	+16:26
17	243		Guy Sabo	Israel	1:22:22	+17:16
18	239		Grigor Karaivanov	Bulgaria	1:22:40	+17:34
19	225		Marc Serrallonga	Spain	1:23:11	+18:05
20	252		Krisztián Liszka	Hungary	1:23:27	+18:21

1	64		Simone Niggli	Switzerland	52:09
2	60		Tatiana Ryabkina	Russia	52:17	+8
3	69		Eva Jurenikova	Czech Republic	55:19	+3:10
4	8		Emma Johansson	Sweden	55:51	+3:42
5	26		Tone Wigemyr	Norway	56:23	+4:14
6	28		Anni-Maija Fincke	Finland	56:57	+4:48
7	62		Ida Bobach	Denmark	58:02	+5:53
8	46		Inga Dambe	Latvia	58:36	+6:27
9	53		Alison Crocker	United States	1:00:56	+8:47
10	33		Gabija Ra~aityt	Lithuania	1:02:35	+10:26
11	24		Kirti Rebane	Estonia	1:04:10	+12:01
12	51		Olga Sluta	Ukraine	1:04:53	+12:44
13	17		Sarina Jenzer	Switzerland	1:05:46	+13:37
14	42		Louise Oram	Canada	1:07:47	+15:38
15	55		Anna Serrallonga	Spain	1:09:49	+17:40
16	35		Carlotta Scalet	Italy	1:10:39	+18:30
17	10		Susanne Casanova	Australia	1:14:29	+22:20
18	1		Christiane Tröße	Germany	1:14:45	+22:36
19	37		Mingyue Zhu	China	1:16:24	+24:15
20	15		Kate Morrison	New Zealand	1:16:53	+24:44

1	58		Catherine Taylor	Great Britain	52:16
2	38		Lena Eliasson	Sweden	53:51	+1:35
3	56		Minna Kauppi	Finland	54:27	+2:11
4	9		Anastasia Tikhonova	Russia	57:59	+5:43
5	20		Ines Brodmann	Switzerland	59:30	+7:14
6	74		Indr Valait	Lithuania	1:01:37	+9:21
7	67		Mari Fasting	Norway	1:02:22	+10:06
8	11		L+ga rniece	Latvia	1:02:28	+10:12
9	72		Amélie Chataing	France	1:02:47	+10:31
10	2		Michaela Omova	Czech Republic	1:03:13	+10:57
11	65		Anu Åkerman	Estonia	1:03:50	+11:34
12	63		Emily Kemp	Canada	1:04:25	+12:09
13	27		Miek Fabré	Belgium	1:08:16	+16:00
14	13		Maryna Suzdalova	Ukraine	1:09:02	+16:46
15	4		Alicia Cobo	Spain	1:09:28	+17:12
16	49		Fanni Gyurko	Hungary	1:09:30	+17:14
17	54		Christine Kirchlechner	Italy	1:12:44	+20:28
18	22		Maria Pabich	Poland	1:13:30	+21:14
19	40		Esther Doetsch	Germany	1:15:24	+23:08
20	36		Aislinn Prendergast	Australia	1:17:43	+25:27

1	50		Tove Alexandersson	Sweden	52:35
2	41		Natalia Efimova	Russia	57:37	+5:02
3	68		Hanny Allston	Australia	57:57	+5:22
4	25		Emma Klingenberg	Denmark	58:07	+5:32
5	16		Karoliina Sundberg	Finland	58:39	+6:04
6	43		Aija SkrastiFa	Latvia	58:59	+6:24
7	48		Sara Luescher	Switzerland	1:00:53	+8:18
8	32		Dana Safka Brozkova	Czech Republic	1:01:48	+9:13
9	70		Daria Lajn	Poland	1:03:07	+10:32
10	3		Rasa Ptaaekait	Lithuania	1:04:04	+11:29
11	21		Helen Palmer	Great Britain	1:04:37	+12:02
12	52		Ursula Kadan	Austria	1:04:51	+12:16
13	14		Michela Guizzardi	Italy	1:06:59	+14:24
14	23		Anastasia Kruglenia	Belarus	1:07:38	+15:03
15	66		Nataliya Dimitrova	Bulgaria	1:08:10	+15:35
16	57		Sieglinde Kundisch	Germany	1:09:02	+16:27
17	39		Annabel Valledor	Spain	1:09:06	+16:31
18	59		Lizzie Ingham	New Zealand	1:12:39	+20:04
19	34		Viktoriia Sukharevska	Ukraine	1:14:26	+21:51
20	12		Emine Sezgünsay	Turkey	1:24:28	+31:53

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