World Cup Sprint Imatra: Maps and Results

[Updated with results] The World Cup race in sprint in Imatra today offered one of the most complex labyrinths of artificially built fences seen in the World Cup so far. This made the race very interesting and challenging – but still the top runners managed to make the right choices on most of the legs. The EOC winners – and qualification winners – Judith Wyder and Jonas Leandersson – took the victories.

Judith Wyder won the women’s race ahead of Maja Alm – with three women in shared third place: Tove Alexandersson, Julia Gross and Helena Jansson. Wyder looked like a sure winner already from the start, but Alm had a very strong finish and got closer and closer for every meter in the last part of the course. Wyder has been very strong in the sprints this year – also winning the European Champs after a slow start.

Alexandersson was running fast, but did some big mistakes, and was early out of the fight for victory.

Another one for Leandersson – Belgian success in third

For the ones following sprint orienteering closely, it was no big surprise that Belgian Yannick Michiels could climb onto the podium in third place today. Michiels started earlier than the main favourites after losing some time in the qualification, and had a clear lead when the big favourites Daniel Hubmann and Jonas Leandersson started.  Hubmann and Leandersson had a tight fight all the way to the finish – Michiels having the same time as Hubmann three controls before the finish. As many times before, Hubmann’s finish was fantastic, and he could raise his arms after beating Michiels with 2 seconds.

Last starter Leandersson was however a few seconds faster – taking the lead from Hubmann at control 13 and being faster from there and into the finish.

Maps and GPS-tracking

• Map and GPS-tracking men
• Map and GPS-tracking women

Results

Women

1	140		Judith Wyder	Switzerland	13:01
2	139		Maja Alm	Denmark	13:03	+2
3	134		Tove Alexandersson	Sweden	13:20	+19
	132		Julia Gross	Switzerland	13:20	+19
	135		Helena Jansson	Sweden	13:20	+19
6	116		Galina Vinogradova	Russia	13:21	+20
7	119		Venla Niemi	Finland	13:26	+25
8	128		Lena Eliasson	Sweden	13:48	+47
9	138		Minna Kauppi	Finland	13:49	+48
10	122		Marika Teini	Finland	13:53	+52
11	127		Rahel Friederich	Switzerland	14:01	+1:00
12	136		Nadiya Volynska	Ukraine	14:02	+1:01
	106		Léa Vercellotti	France	14:02	+1:01
14	111		Emma Johansson	Norway	14:07	+1:06
15	124		Anastasia Tikhonova	Russia	14:10	+1:09
16	126		Gøril Sund	Norway	14:13	+1:12
17	107		Silje Jahren	Norway	14:15	+1:14
18	109		Tessa Hill	Great Britain	14:19	+1:18
19	112		Josefine Engström	Sweden	14:20	+1:19
20	114		Anna Närhi	Finland	14:21	+1:20
	103		Elena Roos	Switzerland	14:21	+1:20

Men

1	40		Jonas Leandersson	Sweden	12:20
2	38		Daniel Hubmann	Switzerland	12:24	+4
3	28		Yannick Michiels	Belgium	12:26	+6
4	13		Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	Lithuania	12:40	+20
5	39		Tue Lassen	Denmark	12:44	+24
6	31		Gustav Bergman	Sweden	12:50	+30
7	32		Scott Fraser	Great Britain	12:54	+34
8	21		Mårten Boström	Finland	13:00	+40
	14		Gaute Steiwer	Norway	13:00	+40
10	6		Severi Kymäläinen	Finland	13:02	+42
11	25		Torgeir Nørbech	Norway	13:03	+43
12	35		Søren Bobach	Denmark	13:07	+47
13	29		Jerker Lysell	Sweden	13:09	+49
14	27		Jonas Mathys	Switzerland	13:11	+51
15	36		Frédéric Tranchand	France	13:14	+54
16	18		William Lind	Sweden	13:21	+1:01
17	11		Øystein Østerbø	Norway	13:23	+1:03
	23		Andreas Rüedlinger	Switzerland	13:23	+1:03
19	34		Martin Regborn	Sweden	13:25	+1:05
20	33		Florian Howald	Switzerland	13:27	+1:07

• Full results

Note: Sorry for late update of results – wanted to watch the broadcast in the evening without knowing the winner. Great production, by the way  …