World Games 2013: All you need to know!

Friday August 2nd – Sunday August 4th: Orienteering in World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia offers live streaming, GPS-tracking and live results. Norwegian Jørn Sundy will be speaker on the live streaming.

With many medalists from the World Championships in Vuokatti on the start list the sprint (Friday), middle distance (Saturday) and sprint relay (Sunday) will be very interesting events to follow.

Useful links

• World Games Orienteering LIVE website
• Entered athletes for World Games 2013 – with athlete profiles
• Orienteering at the official World Games website

Program and start lists

• Thursday August 1st, 20:00 CET: Live athlete interviews at the IOF website
• Friday August 2nd: Sprint – 17:00 CET Women – 18:00 CET Men – Startlist
• Saturday August 3rd: Middle – 16:30 CET Women – 18:30 CET Men – Startlist
• Sunday August 4th: Mixed sprint relay – start at 17:00 CET

The World Games is the place where non-Olympic sports can show themselves to the IOC and the rest of the sports World every 4 years – this time in Cali, Colombia. 30 sports – and in total around 5000 competitors – are on place at the World Games. Unfortunately many top runners and profiles from orienteering have decided not to focus on the World Games this year (see entered athletes here) – notably missing are all the individual gold medalists and the biggest profiles from the World Championships in Vuokatti, Finland  earlier this summer – Simone Niggli, Thierry Gueorgiou, Leonid Novikov and Mårten Boström are all not on the start list.

Still there are many top runners on the start list – around half of the Top 20 ranked men/women on the World Ranking list with around 10-12 medalists from Vuokatti, Finland – and the fight for the medals will be hard. Sweden and Switzerland – the two best sprint nations – both have their best runners on the start line. Also look out for the Danish runners with a strong team, Minna Kauppi – the only Finnish runner – and World Games sprint winner from 2009 Andrey Khramov who did not qualify for WOC and focuses 100% on World Games this year. Frederic Tranchand (France) and the British athletes are also among the favourites. See start lists further down on the page.

Note that the teams had to be named already early this spring, and thus qualification to the World Games had to be done based on early spring shape.

All races on sprint maps

Although one of the races is a  middle distance race, all three races will be held on maps with scale 1:5.000 drawn after the sprint norm. Organizers of the orienteering competitions is an international team – not a local team (as orienteering is not very widespread in Colombia). Winner time for the sprint race is 13 minutes, 32 minutes for the middle distance and 4 x 17 minutes for the mixed sprint relay (run as Men – Women – Men – Women).

All athletes are on place in Colombia – ready for action. You can read about their experiences at their blogs (which you find at the World of O main page) – for example Minna Kauppi’s first post from Colombia is worth a read. Jan Prochazka is also ready for the action.

The IOF website has had some nice interviews with both athletes (e.g. here with Matthias Kyburz and Edgars Bertuks) and mapper – you find them all at the IOF webpage.

History

At the World Games 2009, sprint specialist Andrey Khramov defeated Daniel Hubmann in the sprint by merely one second. Hubmann got his revenge in the middle distance race, which he won.

• Maps and Results – sprint at World Games 2009
• Maps and Results – middle at World Games 2009
• World Games 2009 Orienteering webpage

Sprint World Games 2009: Results Women
1 Minna KAUPPI FIN 8:15,9 11:44,9 14:17,7
2 Johanna ALLSTON AUS 8:34,6 12:11,6 14:40,0
3 Elise EGSETH NOR 8:28,3 12:22,3 14:53,8
4 Rahel FRIEDERICH SUI 8:39,9 12:26,9 15:05,1
5 Linnea GUSTAFSSON SWE 8:37,3 12:27,3 15:06,8
6 Sarah ROLLINS GBR 8:54,0 12:44,0 15:25,4
7 Bodil HOLMSTROEM FIN 8:51,2 12:47,2 15:33,0
8 Maja Moeller ALM DEN 9:12,9 13:05,9 15:45,8
9 Helen BRIDLE GBR 8:52,0 12:58,0 15:47,9
10 Galina VINOGRADOVA RUS 9:25,3 13:16,3 15:49,9

Sprint World Games 2009: Results men
1 Andrey KHRAMOV RUS 7:59,2 11:00,2 13:11,2
2 Daniel HUBMANN SUI 7:49,3 11:01,3 13:12,8
3 Tero FOEHR FIN 8:23,2 11:36,2 13:46,5
4 Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBOE NOR 8:20,8 11:36,8 13:49,1
5 Matthias MUELLER SUI 8:23,6 11:43,6 14:00,7
6 Lars SKJESET NOR 8:25,3 11:54,3 14:07,2
7 Peter OEBERG SWE 8:31,6 11:52,6 14:10,4
8 Mattias MILLINGER SWE 8:30,2 11:50,2 14:11,7
9 Tomas DLABAJA CZE 8:32,3 11:55,3 14:12,6
10 Ross MORRISON NZL 8:43,0 12:09,0 14:29,8

Middle World Games 2009: Results men
1 Daniel HUBMANN SUI 11:39,4 24:15,4 27:43,4
2 Dmitry TSVETKOV RUS 11:51,4 24:50,4 28:16,6
3 Andrey KHRAMOV RUS 11:54,4 25:08,4 28:51,8
4 Tero FOEHR FIN 11:50,2 25:13,2 29:00,3
5 Mattias MILLINGER SWE 11:56,7 25:21,7 29:01,2
6 Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBOE NOR 11:52,5 25:46,5 29:32,1
7 Simonas KREPSTA LTU 12:08,1 26:00,1 29:38,4
8 Jonas Vytautas GVILDYS LTU 12:11,2 26:08,2 29:52,2
9 Matthias MUELLER SUI 11:33,6 25:29,6 30:15,9
10 Peter OEBERG SWE 12:29,4 26:57,4 30:49,2

Middle World Games 2009: Results men
1 AUS ALLSTON Johanna 27:01.0
2 FIN KAUPPI Minna 28:17.4
3 SWE GUSTAFSSON Linnea 28:44.4
4 DEN SOES Signe Rossen 28:49.2
5 LAT SKRASTINA Aija 29:16.5
6 CZE BROZKOVA Dana 29:18.0
7 NOR EGSETH Elise 29:28.4
8 RUS VINOGRADOVA Galina 29:31.2
9 GBR ROLLINS Sarah 30:00.9
10 DEN ALM Maja Moller 30:06.6

Mixed relay

1 2 Russia 1:55:07,7
Dmitriy TSVETKOV 25:40,9 1 DA 25:40,9 1
Yulia NOVIKOVA 32:57,8 7 FB 58:38,7 2
Andrey KHRAMOV 25:10,8 1 GC 1:23:49,5 1
Galina VINOGRADOVA 31:18,2 4 AD 1:55:07,7

2 10 Finland 1:56:38,0
Pasi IKONEN 27:37,6 12 DC 27:37,6 12
Bodil HOLMSTROEM 31:51,8 2 AB 59:29,4 5
Tero FOEHR 26:37,7 4 FA 1:26:07,1 4
Minna KAUPPI 30:30,9 2 GD 1:56:38,0

3 9 Norway 1:56:48,9
Lars SKJESET 26:00,5 3 AC 26:00,5 3
Mari FASTING 34:09,6 10 GA 1:00:10,1 9
Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBO 26:18,0 3 DB 1:26:28,1 6
Elise EGSETH 30:20,8 1 FD 1:56:48,9

4 12 Australia 1:57:11,3
Simon UPPILL 27:01,7 7 GA 27:01,7 7
Kathryn EWELS 32:00,3 4 FC 59:02,0 4
Julian DENT 27:19,8 7 AB 1:26:21,8 5
Johanna ALLSTON 30:49,5 3 DD 1:57:11,3

5 11 Denmark 1:59:15,8
Mikkel LUND 27:33,8 11 FC 27:33,8 11
Maja Moeller ALM 31:57,3 3 DA 59:31,1 6
Rasmus Rossen SOES 28:09,1 11 GB 1:27:40,2 9
Signe Rossen SOES 31:35,6 5 AD 1:59:15,8

6 7 Latvia 1:59:19,1
Edgars BERTUKS 27:28,6 10 FA 27:28,6 10
Inga DAMBE 32:17,0 5 AB 59:45,6 7
Martins SIRMAIS 27:43,0 10 DC 1:27:28,6 8
Aija SKRASTINA 31:50,5 6 GD 1:59:19,1