World of O News
Overall victories in POM 2016 went to Thierry Gueorgiou and Annika Billstam. Gueorgiou has dominated POM with victory every day – finally winning with a 16 minute margin ahead of Albin Ridefelt. Billstam has run four stable races with one win – winning the overall with 4 minute margin down to Eva Jurenikova.
Below are maps, overall results and comments from the overall winners. Thanks to the Portuguese Orienteering Blog for providing maps, interviews and other material.
Comments from the men’s winner Gueorgiou
About multi-day events, O-Ringen and season goals:
– I really enjoyed it. The most important today is that I felt enough strong physically and that means that the training last months was positive. This year one of my goals is the O-Ringen, in Sweden, so it’s very important to compete consecutively a few days. Now I must continue to training well for four months and then we’ll see what happens.
About today’s course:
– Today we also had a really interesting course, demanding a good navigation but also some parts when you could follow the tracks, and there I tried to relax. The approach to the controls was very clean and I liked it a lot, even if I did a big mistake on the fifth control and I can’t say things were perfect today. But I’ll continue working.
About the next competitions:
– We’ll have already next weekend the NAOM and it will be again a nice opportunity to work on the little details and and keep on progressing. Again another great organization and the Portugal O’ Meeting is better every year. The amazing things are, of course, the terrains, the maps and the courses, all the technical part is excepcional and would say that POM is now a really institution.
Comments from the women’s winner Billstam
About the victory:
– It was my first victory at Portugal O’ Meeting and it was really nice, of course. If I look back to all stages, I must say that the second stage was amazing and I had a good flow. I’m very proud of that race. I haven’t had that many trainings with map this year and I felt my technique just a little bit shaky.
About being tired:
– Also yesterday, in the World Ranking Event, I suffered with my physics and I was really tired for the last stage. When your mind is tired you do much more mistakes, stress a bit and lose the flow. Today I felt really tired during the warm-up, so I tried to push harder from the beginning and it went quite okay until the eight control, when I did a parallel mistake and lost several minutes.
Maps
POM 2016 Day 4 Men SuperElite
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POM 2016 Day 4 Women Elite
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Results
Men overall
| 1 | Thierry Gueorgiou | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:06:37 |
| 2 | Albin Ridefelt | OK Linné | SWE | 04:22:02 |
| 3 | Baptiste Rollier | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:22:15 |
| 4 | Jonas Leandersson | Södertälje Nykvarn Orientering | SWE | 04:28:57 |
| 5 | Jan Prochazka | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:31:17 |
| 6 | Lucas Basset | Jeunes Orienteurs Grenoblois | FRA | 04:33:35 |
| 7 | Kubat Pavel | VaajTe | FIN | 04:40:14 |
| 8 | Hannu Airila | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:43:47 |
| 9 | Arturs Paulins | Igtisa | LTU | 04:44:40 |
| 10 | Olli-Markus Taivainen | Pellon Ponsi | FIN | 04:44:55 |
Women overall
| 1 | Annika Billstam | OK Linné | SWE | 04:06:47 |
| 2 | Eva Jurenikova | Halden SK | NOR | 04:10:47 |
| 3 | Anastasia Rudnaya | MS Parma | FIN | 04:17:35 |
| 4 | Amélie Chataing | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:17:46 |
| 5 | Kristin Löfgren | Varegg | NOR | 04:32:41 |
| 6 | Jessica Tullie | BASOC | GBR | 04:32:55 |
| 7 | Outi Hytönen | KangSK | FIN | 04:36:01 |
| 8 | Karoliina Sundberg | Lynx | FIN | 04:41:59 |
| 9 | Isia Basset | Jeunes Orienteurs Grenoblois | FRA | 04:43:16 |
| 10 | Monika Topinkova | Kalevan Rasti | FIN | 04:57:08 |
