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Finnish Olli Ojanaho won a second Gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Rauland, Norway after a great race. Swedish Sara Hagström won a well deserved Gold medal in the women’s class after trouble on both sprint and middle.
The fight for victory in the long distance was again between Scandinavian and Swiss runners. In the men’s class Ojanaho, Swedish Simon Hector and Norwegian Andreas Sølberg had a tight fight for victory. Hector had several non-optimal routechoices – while Sølberg did some big mistakes in the end of his race. Thus the gold medalist from the middle distance, Olli Ojanaho, could celebrate a second gold medal.
In the women’s class early starter the bronze medalist from the middle distance, Sandrine Müller (Switzerland), did a good race from a quite early start number and set a time which was difficult to beat. Finnish Anna Haajata did a technically good race and beat Müller with more than a minute – but finally Hagström came from a late start number and beat them both – finally winning with 40 seconds.
Maps
JWOC 2015 Long - M20
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Long W20
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Results
Men
| 1. | Olli Ojanaho | FIN | 67:00 | (+0:00) |
| 2. | Simon Hector | SWE | 68:15 | (+1:15) |
| 3. | Andreas Soelberg | NOR | 68:26 | (+1:26) |
| 4. | Aidan Smith | GBR | 69:05 | (+2:05) |
| 5. | Simon Imark | SWE | 69:13 | (+2:13) |
| 6. | Matthias Groell | AUT | 70:12 | (+3:12) |
| 7. | Audun Heimdal | NOR | 70:49 | (+3:49) |
| 8. | Tobia Pezzati | SUI | 70:58 | (+3:58) |
| 9. | Shamus Morrison | NZL | 71:05 | (+4:05) |
| 10. | Tim Robertson | NZL | 71:12 | (+4:12) |
| 11. | Emil Granqvist | SWE | 71:30 | (+4:30) |
| 12. | Markus Holter | NOR | 71:41 | (+4:41) |
| 13. | Topi Raitanen | FIN | 71:56 | (+4:56) |
| 14. | Sergey Dobrynin | RUS | 72:41 | (+5:41) |
| 15. | Topias Ahola | FIN | 72:54 | (+5:54) |
Women
| 1. | Sara Hagstrom | SWE | 52:06 | (+0:00) |
| 2. | Anna Haataja | FIN | 52:46 | (+0:40) |
| 3. | Sandrine Mueller | SUI | 54:19 | (+2:13) |
| 4. | Heidi Martensson | NOR | 54:46 | (+2:40) |
| 5. | Miri Thrane Odum | DEN | 55:44 | (+3:38) |
| 6. | Simona Aebersold | SUI | 55:51 | (+3:45) |
| 7. | Karoliina Ukskoski | FIN | 55:53 | (+3:47) |
| 8. | Marie Olaussen | NOR | 57:07 | (+5:01) |
| 9. | Johanna Oberg | SWE | 57:19 | (+5:13) |
| 10. | Andrea Svensson | SWE | 57:37 | (+5:31) |
| 11. | Noora Koskinen | FIN | 57:54 | (+5:48) |
| 12. | Paula Gross | SUI | 58:19 | (+6:13) |
| 13. | Emma Bjessmo | SWE | 58:23 | (+6:17) |
| 14. | Pihla Otsamo | FIN | 59:18 | (+7:12) |
| 15. | Aleksandra Hornik | POL | 59:22 | (+7:16) |
- Full results (live results)
- Full official results will be available here
GOLD for Olli Ojanajo (FIN) in #JWOC2015 Long ahead of Hector (SWE) and Sølberg (NOR) http://t.co/cwknYltOii pic.twitter.com/JhKU1LKQjx
— WorldofO.com (@worldofo) July 9, 2015
GOLD for Sara Hagström (SWE) in #JWOC2015 Long ahead of Haataja (FIN)! Tight race! http://t.co/cwknYltOii pic.twitter.com/QxGByfV3Nr
— WorldofO.com (@worldofo) July 9, 2015
Dear Jan,
please check the results in your tables. According to the official results Matthias Gröll from Austria was 6th but he is missing here.
Axel
Thanks a lot for the notification – fixed now! Not sure what happened there.