World of O News
Emma Klingenberg had the highest speed – especially on the long legs – but Tove Alexandersson ran the best technical race and got the fastest time of the day. Judith Wyder did also a very good race except for two bad routechoices in the second half of the course. Nadiya Volynska had a very good last part of the race, but lost too much time on the long leg to control 6.
Below the discussion on the discussion points a separate illustration with and without route choices are provided for each leg.
Decision points for the victory
The below splitsbrowser illustration shows the development between the top 6. Judith Wyder is in the lead at the first control, but from there Tove Alexandersson is in front all the way until the finish. Tove Alexandersson and Judith Wyder had the fastest opening speed – gaining a several seconds on the others in top 6 to the easy leg to the first control.
The second control is an interesting one (see below). Of the top 6 the only one going right is Tove Alexandersson. The rest go left and lose from 6 to 8 seconds. Another important point in the fight for victory is the long leg to the 5th control. Here Volynska loses 21 seconds and Hausken even more. Volynska runs the correct route but loses time either out of the control or into the control. Hausken ran without GPS and it is difficul to assess why she lost time.
From the 5th until the 8th control Emma Klingenberg pushes very hard and gets up to shared lead with Alexandersson at control 8. To the routechoice leg to 8th Klingenberg beats Alexandersson with 10 seconds, but they both run the same route (left). However, Klingenberg loses the initiative to the 9th were the Dane does a poor routechoice (see below). This is were Klingenberg loses the chance for victory.
Wyder has had a good period when arriving at the 9th control and is in shared lead with Alexandersson. The two next legs are however crucial for Wyder. Even if her running speed at this point of the race seems higher than Alexanderssons, technical errors makes her lose so much time that victory gets impossible. Two wrong routechoices in a row cost 2 times 8 seconds to the best split time – more than the time the Swiss is behind Alexandersson in the end.
The below performance index chart shows how Klinbenberg has the highest speed potential ahead of Wyder and Alexandersson.
Analysis illustrations: Leg by leg
The most interesting legs in the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil were leg 5, leg 8, leg 9, leg 11, leg 12 and leg 15. For these legs a significant part of the start field chose a slower route than the ideal route – and it is also easy to see from the GPS-data and split times which variant is fastest.
Below each leg is first provided first without any routes and then with the routes of the GPS-tracked runners along with split times from the timing system. From the colors (green = fast, red = slow) it is easy to see where there are significant differences for the different route choices – and which route was fastest. No text-based analysis is provided. For the GPS-data in 2DRerun see here.
