World of O News
Thierry Gueorgiou – the King of Middle Long distance! With his victory in today’s World Championships long distance Gueorgiou is the first man ever to win three gold medals on the long distance. – It is easier to win the long distance because there you can make some mistakes and still win, Gueorgiou said after the race.
In two days in the middle distance final Gueorgiou might however take back the middle throne – and just be the King of Forest Orienteering
Gueorgiou has been known as the King of Middle distance for many year as he has been dominating the middle distance discipline with his extreme abilities to orienteer fast through very technical terrain. The last years he has however struggled on the middle distance, only winning once in the last four years.
– Now finally they will stop calling me the King of Middle, Gueorgiou commented. In two days in the middle distance final Gueorgiou might however take back the middle throne – and just be the King of Forest Orienteering.
Three runners fighting to become historical
The two other medalists today – Daniel Hubmann (silver) and Olav Lundanes (bronze) – both had two gold medals over the long distance from earlier and had the possibility to get historical today with three gold meldas. The fight was very close until the arena passing – all three being within 50 seconds. However Gueorgiou again proved strongest towards the end, and won a clear victory.
Gueorgiou made the decision to run the long distance final after Jukola – when he beat everybody with a large margin on the last leg.
– I made the decision to run long after Jukola. Already after the World Ranking event [in Asiago in June] there was a good feeling, but I was not sure until after Jukola, the King of Long said.
Map and course
The long distance courses in this year’s WOC did not have any very long legs, but still had several quite long route choice legs where the field split into many different route choices. According to the winner Gueorgiou this was however not the most interesting course possible in this terrain,
– I have made many more interesting courses than this one, he said just after finishing the race. – We had for example a really nice long leg. We spent an hour discussing only this leg yesterday.
After things cooled down after the flower ceremony, Gueorgiou discussed the course in more detail with the IOF Event advisor who had knowledge about all the restrictions set by for example fences and forbidden areas, and it became clear that many of the nice legs were NOT possible in reality. Another interesting fact that came up: 2270 small cliffs were removed from the complete map in the process of making it ready for the championships – the original version was quite black.
Here you find the course:
- Map with men’s course is available here – GPS-tracking will be available here at 22:00 for free (as a paid service before)
The full analysis of the race will be published tomorrow morning – it will be an interesting evening analyzing the course!
Results
| 1 | Gueorgiou Thierry | FRA | 14:54:00 | 17:07 (2) | 29:14 (1) | 42:46 (1) | 51:59 (1) | 75:58 (1) | 77:01 (1) | 88:08 (1) | 92:21 (1) | 94:45 (1) | +00:00 |
| 2 | Hubmann Daniel | SUI | 15:10:00 | 17:55 (5) | 30:24 (4) | 43:49 (4) | 52:53 (3) | 76:36 (2) | 77:39 (2) | 89:21 (2) | 93:41 (2) | 96:12 (2) | +01:27 |
| 3 | Lundanes Olav | NOR | 15:00:00 | 17:35 (3) | 29:55 (3) | 43:43 (3) | 52:44 (2) | 76:39 (3) | 77:54 (3) | 90:00 (3) | 94:37 (3) | 97:09 (3) | +02:24 |
| 4 | Hertner Fabian | SUI | 14:56:00 | 17:02 (1) | 29:22 (2) | 43:04 (2) | 52:57 (4) | 78:52 (4) | 79:57 (4) | 91:41 (4) | 96:11 (4) | 98:39 (4) | +03:54 |
| 5 | Kyburz Matthias | SUI | 15:06:00 | 18:00 (6) | 31:08 (6) | 45:22 (6) | 55:48 (11) | 80:37 (9) | 81:39 (7) | 93:18 (6) | 97:38 (5) | 100:12 (5) | +05:27 |
| 6 | Johansson Fredrik | SWE | 14:34:00 | 18:38 (21) | 31:11 (8) | 45:46 (9) | 55:18 (8) | 80:00 (6) | 81:24 (6) | 92:59 (5) | 97:41 (6) | 100:16 (6) | +05:31 |
| 7 | Rollier Baptiste | SUI | 14:50:00 | 18:01 (7) | 31:11 (9) | 45:38 (8) | 55:07 (7) | 79:59 (5) | 81:02 (5) | 93:53 (7) | 98:41 (7) | 101:19 (7) | +06:34 |
| 8 | Kerschbaumer Gernot | AUT | 14:24:00 | 18:19 (11) | 31:19 (12) | 46:15 (10) | 55:47 (10) | 81:08 (10) | 82:13 (10) | 94:18 (9) | 99:04 (9) | 101:40 (8) | +06:55 |
| 9 | Nikolov Kiril | BUL | 14:52:00 | 19:10 (28) | 31:17 (10) | 44:49 (5) | 54:00 (5) | 80:19 (7) | 82:02 (9) | 94:17 (8) | 99:03 (8) | 101:59 (9) | +07:14 |
| 10 | Dahlgren Filip | SWE | 15:08:00 | 18:07 (8) | 32:23 (19) | 46:16 (11) | 54:58 (6) | 80:21 (8) | 81:46 (8) | 94:25 (10) | 99:21 (10) | 102:15 (10) | +07:30 |
| 11 | Daehli Magne | NOR | 15:12:00 | 18:24 (12) | 32:54 (25) | 47:47 (21) | 57:25 (19) | 83:00 (14) | 84:11 (13) | 95:32 (11) | 100:03 (11) | 102:27 (11) | +07:42 |
| 12 | Zinca Ionut Alin | ROU | 14:46:00 | 18:25 (13) | 33:16 (30) | 48:34 (29) | 58:10 (25) | 83:59 (21) | 85:01 (19) | 96:07 (12) | 100:24 (12) | 102:55 (12) | +08:10 |
| 13 | Gonon Francois | FRA | 13:08:00 | 32:16 (17) | 47:10 (16) | 56:35 (14) | 83:15 (16) | 84:25 (15) | 96:21 (13) | 101:14 (13) | 103:47 (13) | +09:02 | |
| 14 | Tranchand Frederic | FRA | 14:40:00 | 17:46 (4) | 31:05 (5) | 45:33 (7) | 56:10 (12) | 82:41 (12) | 83:56 (11) | 96:39 (14) | 101:39 (14) | 104:20 (14) | +09:35 |
| 15 | Tsvetkov Dmitriy | RUS | 14:30:00 | 18:38 (20) | 32:08 (15) | 46:21 (12) | 55:46 (9) | 82:35 (11) | 84:15 (14) | 97:07 (15) | 102:07 (15) | 104:51 (15) | +10:06 |
- Full results here (from live results) – official results will be available here
