WOC Middle Qual: Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes

“One of the trickiest WOC qualification races ever” was a phrase repeated several times in the arena after today’s WOC middle distance qualification. In one of the women heats you could be nearly 20 minutes behind the winner, and still qualify for the final. The day brought two heat winners from Switzerland and two heat winners from Latvia – none of them being Edgars Bertuks!

Heat winners were Merja Rantanen (Finland) , Tove Alexandersson (Sweden), Inga Dambe (Latvia), Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Kalvis Mihailos (Latvia).

Maps/GPS-tracking

Maps:

• Middle Q MEN 1
• Middle Q MEN 2
• Middle Q MEN 3
• Middle Q WOMEN 1
• Middle Q WOMEN 2
• Middle Q WOMEN 3

GPS-tracking:

Results

Women Heat 1

1	17		Merja Rantanen	Finland	28:25
2	37		Annika Billstam	Sweden	28:26	+1
3	73		Dana Safka Brozkova	Czech Republic	28:38	+13
4	35		Anne M. Hausken Nordberg	Norway	29:02	+37
5	78		Minna Kauppi	Finland	29:41	+1:16
6	55		Irina Nyberg	Russia	31:15	+2:50
7	82		Nadiya Volynska	Ukraine	31:27	+3:02
8	46		Charlotte Bouchet	France	32:14	+3:49
9	28		Indr Valait	Lithuania	33:19	+4:54
10	8		Judith Wyder	Switzerland	34:23	+5:58
11	15		Laura V+7e	Latvia	35:35	+7:10
12	62		Claire Ward	Great Britain	37:23	+8:58
13	87		Paulina Faron	Poland	37:45	+9:20
14	80		Elisa Elstner	Austria	37:49	+9:24
15	19		Jasmine Neve	Australia	38:06	+9:41
16	51		Anna Serrallonga	Spain	38:33	+10:08
17	64		Samantha Saeger	United States	39:14	+10:49
18	26		Kerstin Burnett	Canada	40:26	+12:01
19	60		Niamh OBoyle	Ireland	44:50	+16:25
20	53		Christine Kirchlechner	Italy	45:21	+16:56

Women Heat 2

1	81		Tove Alexandersson	Sweden	28:26
2	65		Ida Bobach	Denmark	28:43	+17
3	76		Mari Fasting	Norway	29:40	+1:14
4	40		Venla Niemi	Finland	29:50	+1:24
5	72		Tatiana Ryabkina	Russia	31:36	+3:10
6	63		Amélie Chataing	France	33:52	+5:26
7	54		Sara Luescher	Switzerland	33:55	+5:29
8	29		Vanessa Round	Australia	34:21	+5:55
9	22		Vendula Haldin	Czech Republic	35:25	+6:59
10	67		Michela Guizzardi	Italy	40:40	+12:14
11	45		Louise Oram	Canada	41:00	+12:34
12	83		Annabel Valledor	Spain	42:45	+14:19
13	20		Tessa Hill	Great Britain	43:58	+15:32
14	85		Anu Åkerman	Estonia	46:48	+18:22
15	49		Hinako Inage	Japan	47:19	+18:53
16	4		Maria Pabich	Poland	48:08	+19:42
17	31		Kate Morrison	New Zealand	48:29	+20:03
18	2		Sieglinde Kundisch	Germany	48:50	+20:24
19	27		Hannah Culberg	United States	48:52	+20:26
20	13		Anna Simkovics-Nilsson	Austria	52:06	+23:40

Women Heat 3

1	75		Inga Dambe	Latvia	30:01
2	59		Saila Kinni	Finland	30:17	+16
3	30		Eva Jurenikova	Czech Republic	31:02	+1:01
4	23		Lina Strand	Sweden	31:43	+1:42
5	48		Ursula Kadan	Austria	31:52	+1:51
6	86		Simone Niggli	Switzerland	32:05	+2:04
7	61		Ausrine Kutkaite	Lithuania	32:11	+2:10
8	68		Emily Kemp	Canada	33:23	+3:22
9	41		Maja Alm	Denmark	33:44	+3:43
10	57		Hollie Orr	Great Britain	33:45	+3:44
11	32		Alison Crocker	United States	34:06	+4:05
12	25		Tone Wigemyr	Norway	34:19	+4:18
13	66		Hanny Allston	Australia	36:01	+6:00
14	39		Christiane Tröße	Germany	36:10	+6:09
15	52		Olga Rieznychenko	Ukraine	37:38	+7:37
16	14		Natalia Vinogradova	Russia	40:52	+10:51
17	50		Daria Lajn	Poland	41:48	+11:47
18	21		Carlotta Scalet	Italy	42:11	+12:10
19	16		Céline Dodin	France	44:17	+14:16
20	70		Lizzie Ingham	New Zealand	44:19	+14:18

Men Heat 1

1	264		Daniel Hubmann	Switzerland	25:50
2	309		Thierry Gueorgiou	France	26:05	+15
3	235		Johan Runesson	Sweden	27:31	+1:41
4	255		Pavlo Ushkvarok	Ukraine	28:15	+2:25
5	287		Lauri Sild	Estonia	28:23	+2:33
6	300		Tomas Dlabaja	Czech Republic	28:29	+2:39
7	296		Zsolt Lenkei	Hungary	28:40	+2:50
8	253		Andreu Blanes	Spain	28:54	+3:04
9	298		Gernot Kerschbaumer	Austria	29:06	+3:16
10	291		Michal Kraj ík	Slovakia	29:10	+3:20
11	269		Hector Haines	Great Britain	29:19	+3:29
12	233		Mateusz Wenslaw	Poland	29:35	+3:45
13	260		Bjørn Ekeberg	Norway	29:56	+4:06
14	217		Valentin Novikov	Russia	30:03	+4:13
15	282		Simonas Krpata	Lithuania	30:27	+4:37
16	262		Yury Tambasov	Belarus	30:39	+4:49
17	289		Christoph Brandt	Germany	30:47	+4:57
18	224		Søren Schwartz Sørensen	Denmark	31:14	+5:24
19	219		Andris Jubelis	Latvia	32:06	+6:16
20	307		Ivaylo Kamenarov	Bulgaria	32:12	+6:22

Men Heat 2

1	276		Matthias Kyburz	Switzerland	26:56
2	290		Hannu Airila	Finland	27:42	+46
3	308		Carl Godager Kaas	Norway	27:44	+48
4	310		Edgars Bertuks	Latvia	27:48	+52
5	283		Oleksandr Kratov	Ukraine	28:21	+1:25
6	258		Alexey Bortnik	Russia	29:20	+2:24
7	245		Gustav Bergman	Sweden	29:32	+2:36
8	272		M rtiFa Sirmais	Latvia	29:47	+2:51
9	247		Rasmus Thrane Hansen	Denmark	29:50	+2:54
10	281		Mark Nixon	Great Britain	30:04	+3:08
11	256		Pavel Gvozdev	Israel	30:55	+3:59
12	265		Tiago Aires	Portugal	31:13	+4:17
13	301		Mikhail Mamleev	Italy	31:19	+4:23
14	204		Olle Kärner	Estonia	31:29	+4:33
15	299		Simon Uppill	Australia	31:34	+4:38
16	249		Wojciech Kowalski	Poland	31:37	+4:41
17	263		Nicolas Simonin	Ireland	31:43	+4:47
18	303		Aleksei Alekseyonok	Belarus	31:49	+4:53
19	211		Lucas Basset	France	31:55	+4:59
20	229		Bjarne Friedrichs	Germany	32:53	+5:57

Men Heat 3

1	297		Kalvis Mihailovs	Latvia	27:39
2	304		Leonid Novikov	Russia	28:22	+43
3	230		Anders Nordberg	Norway	28:32	+53
4	239		Philippe Adamski	France	29:11	+1:32
5	268		Jan Prochazka	Czech Republic	29:12	+1:33
6	203		Fabian Hertner	Switzerland	29:23	+1:44
7	286		Peter Öberg	Sweden	29:39	+2:00
8	225		Denys Shcherbakov	Ukraine	30:26	+2:47
9	252		Timo Sild	Estonia	30:29	+2:50
10	266		Christoph Prunsche	Germany	30:30	+2:51
11	270		Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	Lithuania	32:06	+4:27
12	214		Roger Casal	Spain	32:12	+4:33
13	259		Robert Merl	Austria	32:21	+4:42
14	261		Daniel Barkasz	Romania	32:32	+4:53
15	311		Tue Lassen	Denmark	33:11	+5:32
16	241		Máté Baumholczer	Hungary	33:50	+6:11
17	295		Ross Morrison	New Zealand	34:00	+6:21
18	288		Wojciech Dwojak	Poland	34:11	+6:32
19	207		Alessio Tenani	Italy	38:06	+10:27
20	250		Will Critchley	Canada	38:43	+11:04

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