POM 2016 Day 1: Maps and Results

Jan Kocbach February 6, 2016 MiniNews Comments Off on POM 2016 Day 1: Maps and Results

Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Marika Teini (Finland) won the first day of Portugal O-Meeting 2016 ahead of the Swedes Gustav Bergman and Helena Jansson, respectively.

The first day of POM 2016 was a middle distance held in open terrain with many big boulders. Note that the most important day of POM 2016 is Monday’s World Ranking event, so some athletes may not have been running with full speed today.

Full focus

Thierry Gueorgiou always gives full focus on all of Portugal O-Meeting though – treating it as an important race.

– My goal is keep on going to do a good preparation, but I’ll do the POM’s four races in a focused way and we’ll see what happens. We have to wait six months to the WOC and the results here don’t mean too much, but I prefer to be here rather than last year, injured, in front of my PC, Gueorgiou told Joaquim Margarido of the Portuguese Orienteering Blog after the race.

In his training log Gueorgiou gave some more details about his technical performance.

– [I am] pleased with my technical performance, except for the 14th where I ended in a cliff which was probably too small to be on the map. Looking forward to test out another new terrain tomorrow,

Maps

Nothing too extraordinary for this first middle distance, but still enjoyable. The terrain was pretty open with the biggest rocky features and single trees well visible from distance. It was mainly about keeping a high speed and avoiding the greens who could stuck you for a while (Thierry Gueorgiou)

See below for maps for Men Superelite and Women elite.

POM 2016 Day 1 MSE

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com

POM 2016 Day 1 WE

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com

See also map with the men’s winner Thierry Gueorgiou’s routechoice here.

Results

Men SuperElite

1	Thierry Gueorgiou	KR	FIN	0:34:45
2	Gustav Bergman	OK Ravinen	SWE	0:35:12
3	Baptiste Rollier	KR	FIN	0:35:51
4	Albin Ridefelt	OKL	SWE	0:36:05
5	Jonas Leandersson	SNO	SWE	0:36:26
6	Martin Hubmann	OL Regio Wil	SUI	0:36:49
7	Bartosz Pawlak	WKS Grunwald PoznaD	POL	0:37:33
8	Olle Boström	Järla	SWE	0:37:57
9	Ivar Lundanes	SNO	SWE	0:38:03
10	Aaro Asikainen	KR	FIN	0:38:17
11	Lucas Basset	JOG	FRA	0:38:18
12	Aleksi Niemi	TP	FIN	0:38:37
13	Fabian Hertner	KR	FIN	0:38:39
14	Jan Prochazka	KR	FIN	0:38:54
15	Hannu Airila	KR	FIN	0:38:55

Women Elite

1	Marika Teini	Pohjantahti	FIN	0:35:17
2	Helena Jansson	OK Ravinen	SWE	0:35:19
3	Lina Strand	GMOK	SWE	0:36:25
4	Catherine Taylor	OKL	SWE	0:37:06
5	Amélie CHATAING	KR	FIN	0:37:18
6	Annika Billstam	OKL	SWE	0:37:51
7	Eva Jurenikova	Halden SK	NOR	0:39:20
8	Jessica Tullie	BASOC	GBR	0:40:04
9	Kristin Löfgren	Varegg	NOR	0:40:38
10	Isia BASSET	JOG	FRA	0:40:49
11	Anni-Maija Fincke	Individual FIN	FIN	0:40:57
12	Monika Topinkova	KR	FIN	0:41:28
13	Martina Seiterle	thurgorienta	SUI	0:42:43
14	Outi Hytönen	KangSK	FIN	0:43:05
15	Johanna Öberg	OK Hällen	SWE	0:43:35