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World Cup Final 2015: All You Need To Know!

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[LIVE webTV + GPS-tracking: Long Friday, Middle Saturday, Sprint Relay Sunday] Arosa in the Swiss Alps welcomes the world orienteering elite to the World Cup Final the coming weekend from Friday October 2nd until Sunday October 4th. 

The start field in the World Cup final is one of the best we have seen in the World Cup final the last years – with all six individual World Champions except Thierry Gueorgiou (updated based on comment, see below) on the start line and 150 athletes from 23 countries at the start.

The terrain is Alpine – with the races taking place between 1600 and 2200 meters. The long distance will be tough – 12.4 km with 730 meter climb for the men, 8.8 km with 525 meter climb for the women. Above part of an old map of the Arosa area is shown. An interesting fact: Daniel Hubmann ran his first Swiss Championship here 20 years ago in the H12 category.

Links & Live services

Friday’s webTV production will be a low-key production with camera from the finish area, speaker sound and live GPS-tracking. Saturday’s webTV (and TV) production will be a proper TV production.

Program

  • Friday Long distance. Start from 11:30. GPS-tracking from 13:00. Last start men 15:40. Last start women 15:34. Winner time 90 minutes for men / 75 minutes for women. 3 minutes start interval.
  • Saturday Middle distance. Start from 12:50. GPS-tracking from 13:00. Last start women 15:25. Winner women finish 16:00. Last start men 16:30. Winner men 17:05.
  • Sunday Sprint Relay. Start 13:20 CET. Finish 14:20 CET

All times are CET.

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Women: Bobach versus Alexandersson

The fight for overall victory should also be exciting both among the men and the women. In the women’s class the fight for the overall victory is mostly between Danish World Champion long distance Ida Bobach and Swedish Tove Alexandersson (56 points ahead of Bobach). Alexandersson had injury problems during the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland, but is reported to be back in shape.  Ida Bobach is (for now) only registered for the middle distance race on Saturday. With  100 points for the winner on Friday’s long distance and double points to be awarded in the middle race on Saturday, the battle for the top position is still open, although Alexandersson has an advantage. Even Sara Lüscher in third, 151 points behind Alexandersson has a theoretical chance for victory.

Men: A Swiss Duel

In the men’s class the fight for victory is mainly between the two Swiss runners Daniel Hubmann and Matthias Kyburz (80 points behind). Down to the long distance World Champion Thierry Gueorgiou (France)  in third the gap is 223 points. Still there would have been a theoretical chance to win for Gueorgiou if he would have been on the start line, but this will now be a battle between the two Swiss runners – both have won the overall World Cup before, Hubmann 5(!) times.

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Sprint Relay: Denmark vs Sweden

In the Sprint Relay World Cup, Denmark is the current leader 35 points ahead of Sweden – with 100 points to the winner and 80 points to number two in the final race. 6 nations still have a theoretical chance of winning, but it would be a big surprise if Norway in 3rd (67 points behind) or Switzerland in 4th (70 points behind) would climb all the way up to the top of the podium after Sunday’s Sprint Relay.

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Registered athletes

Taking a look at the World Ranking list, 8 of the top 10 men and 9 of the top 10 women are present in Arosa for the World Cup final; 18 of the top 30 men and 22 of the top 30 women. This is a very good participation for the World Cup final – the new setup where the sprint race is skipped in favor of interesting orienteering in the Swiss Alps is probably one of the reasons for the increased interest.

WRE pos Name Country
1 Daniel Hubmann SUI
2 Olav Lundanes NOR
4 Oleksandr Kratov UKR
5 Fabian Hertner SUI
6 Matthias Kyburz SUI
7 Magne Daehli NOR
9 Gustav Bergman SWE
10 William Lind SWE
13 Baptiste Rollier SUI
14 Carl Godager Kaas NOR
15 Filip Dahlgren SWE
20 Hector Haines GBR
22 Fredric Portin FIN
23 Jan Sedivy CZE
24 Johan Runesson SWE
25 Jan Prochazka CZE
29 Gernot Kerschbaumer AUT
30 Ruslan Glibov UKR
WRE pos Name Country
1 Ida Bobach DEN
2 Tove Alexandersson SWE
3 Judith Wyder SUI
5 Helena Jansson SWE
6 Mari Fasting NOR
7 Sara Luescher SUI
8 Catherine Taylor GBR
9 Sarina Jenzer SUI
10 Saila Kinni FIN
11 Nadiya Volynska UKR
12 Maja Alm DEN
13 Emma Johansson SWE
15 Annika Billstam SWE
17 Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg NOR
18 Sofia Haajanen FIN
19 Merja Rantanen FIN
20 Sabine Hauswirth SUI
21 Minna Kauppi FIN
22 Natalia Vinogradova RUS
26 Anastasia Rudnaya RUS
27 Lilian Forsgren SWE
28 Julia Gross SUI

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6 comments

  1. Thierry is not running…

  2. There are a lot of strong runners without huge financing support. All of them loose chances to fight for overall World Cup victory already in January after World cup event in Australia (once more IOF made first World Cup event in the most expensive period of the year). That’s a shame to the current World cup system!

    I spoke with Matthias Niggli at Jukola. He said that their nice and perspective solution to design new World cup system have not been approved by IOF ((

  3. Øystein Grøvlen

    You claim to present all we need to know, but you do not say where I can find the start lists ;-)