World of O News
Thierry Gueorgiou and Tove Alexandersson won the World Ranking event middle distance in Portugal at Norte Alentejano O’ Meeting 2016 last Saturday. The same day a long distance World Ranking event was organized in Spain: Lorca O-Meeting with Andreu Blanes Reig and Svetlana Mironova as winners.
The Portugal race offered the strongest start field, but also Lorca O-Meeting had some of the top athletes in the world on the start line.
Norte Alentejano Men: Gueorgiou again
Normally it’s a good sign to stay two minutes behind Thierry at this time of the season, so I think my shape is okay for now. He is really fast and I’ve a lot of work to do, of course (Olav Lundanes)
Thierry Gueorgiou finished his race series in Portugal at Norte Alentejano O-meeting this weekend. After dominating Portugal O-Meeting last week, Gueorgiou took another win at the WRE race middle distance on Saturday in a very strong start field; Norwegians Olav Lundanes and Magne Dæhlie completed the podium around 2 and 3 minutes behind Gueorgiou. The start field also included top runners like Fabian Hertner, Frederic Tranchand, Lucan Basset, Baptiste Rollier, Lucas Basset and Filip Dahlgren.
Norte Alentejano Day 1 - M21SE
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– It was a great race, really difficult technically, very slippery in some parts, so it was hard to be physically engaged all the time. I did some small hesitations, trying to figure out how to escape the slippery parts. It wasn’t an easy task but I must be happy with my performance. We had here, again, an amazing terrain, Thierry Gueorgiou commented after the race.
Olav Lundanes in second place was happy with his race – even while being beaten by Gueorgiou.
– I think it was a good race. I did a few mistakes but small ones, I never was far away from the controls. Some times I wasn’t pretty sure about it, but it was a really fun race in amazing terrains. Normally it’s a good sign to stay two minutes behind Thierry at this time of the season, so I think my shape is okay for now. He is really fast and I’ve a lot of work to do, of course, but I’m very happy with my performance.
Note! On Sunday’s middle distance (not World Ranking), Gueorgiou was beaten by Swedish Emil Svensk with 16 seconds. Gueorgiou comments: – I don’t feel disappointed, I did a good race but I also know that, sometimes, it’s possible that someone beats me.
– I don’t feel disappointed, I did a good race but I also know that, sometimes, it’s possible that someone beats me (Thierry Gueorgiou)
Norte Alentejano Women: Alexandersson out of the snow
Tove Alexandersson has had a great season in Ski-orienteering, winning four World Cup races so far this season and currently leading the Ski-orienteering World Cup. Alexandersson was now ready for a short break in the Ski-O season to do some Foot-orienteering, and climbed straight to the top of the results list with a win at the Norte Alenejano O-Meeting World Ranking race. Alexandersson was nearly 4 minutes ahead of Marika Teini (Finland) – very impressive by the Swedish overall World Cup winner from last year.
– I did a short break in the Ski Orienteering season because it was good in time and I like to do Orienteering in Portugal. NAOM was really fun, with two really demanding Middle Distances, both physical and technical. I haven’t been running that much during the Winter and it was very nice to came here, do some Orienteering and run again, Alexandersson commented.
– I did a short break in the Ski Orienteering season because it was good in time and I like to do Orienteering in Portugal (Tove Alexandersson)
Norte Alentejano Day 1 - W21E
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Thanks again to Portuguese Orienteering Blog for maps and information from the race.
Lorca O-Meeting: Blanes Reig and Mironova
The World Ranking race long distance at Lorca O-Meeting was organizes as a mass start event, with Andreu Blanes Reig winning a clear 5 minute victory ahead of Antonio Martinez Perez. Polish Wojciech Kowalski finished 3rd another minute down.
Great weekend at Lorca fighing with good runners. Victory (very tight) at Sprint and Middle distance race and 2nd place at WRE mass start Long behind a strong Andreu Blanes Reig who also won the overall. Time to keep on working hard… (Antonio Martinez Perez)
The women’s class was won by Svetlana Mironova – one of the best long distance orienteers in the world. Mironova showed her class and won with nearly 11 minutes margin down to Sara Eskilsson in second place.
See the start of the mass start here.
Lorca O-Meeting Long M21E
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Results Norte Alentejano O’ Meeting (WRE Middle)
Men
1 Thierry Gueorgiou 79 [8782] OE / Kalevan Rasti 38:20 38:20
2 Olav Lundanes 87 [8387] OE / Halden SK 40:09 40:09
3 Magne Dæhli 87 [8387] OE / Halden SK 41:25 41:25
4 Jarkko Huovila 75 [8387] OE / Halden SK 41:45 41:45
4 Sven Hellmüller 95 [8747] OE / SW Ori Team 41:45 41:45
6 Hannu Airila 85 [8782] OE / Kalevan Rasti 42:09 42:09
7 Fabian Hertner 85 [8782] OE / Kalevan Rasti 42:11 42:11
8 Thomas Natvig Årstad 89 [8387] OE / Halden SK 42:19 42:19
9 Frédéric Tranchand 88 [8756] OE / FFCO 42:38 42:38
10 Johan Högstrand 92 [8385] OE / IFK Göteborg 43:03 43:03
11 Nicholas Oskarsson 91 [8477] OE / Lillomarka OL 43:14 43:14
12 Filip Dahlgren 88 [8576] OE / IFK Lidingö SOK 43:17 43:17
12 Baptiste Rollier 82 [8782] OE / Kalevan Rasti 43:17 43:17
14 Lucas Basset 91 [8756] OE / FFCO 43:28 43:28
15 Mårten Boström 82 [8576] OE / IFK Lidingö SOK 43:34 43:34
Women
1 Tove Alexandersson 92 [8657] OE / Stora Tuna OK 32:15 32:15
2 Marika Teini 89 [8680] Pohjantahti 35:56 35:56
3 Anastasia Rudnaya 90 [8481] MS Parma 37:02 37:02
4 Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul 88 [8387] OE / Halden SK 37:40 37:40
5 Amilia Björklund 93 [8475] OE / Sävedalens AIK 38:04 38:04
6 Helena Karlsson 92 [8576] OE / IFK Lidingö SOK 38:23 38:23
7 Amélie Chataing 86 [8756] OE / FFCO 38:28 38:28
8 Kine Gulliksen 88 [8788] Bækkelaget SK 38:35 38:35
9 Rahel Friederich 86 [8384] OE / Leksands OK 38:47 38:47
10 Anna Bachman 90 [8576] OE / IFK Lidingö SOK 39:15 39:15
11 Anni-Maija Fincke 84 [8387] OE / Halden SK 39:36 39:36
12 Lea Vercellotti 89 [5327] Maximus 40:16 40:16
13 Julia Gross 91 [8657] OE / Stora Tuna OK 40:21 40:21
14 Jessica Tullie 87 [8692] BASOC 40:34 40:34
15 Eva Jurenikova 78 [8387] OE / Halden SK 40:37 40:37
- Full results
- (Sorry about the results format – organizers had Sunday evening not yet uploaded official results to Eventor or Winsplits)
Results Lorca O-Meeting (WRE Long)
Men
| 1 | Andreu Blanes Reig | 1:32:10 | 6:54 | ||
| 2 | Antonio Martínez Pérez | 1:37:08 | +4:58 | 7:16 | |
| 3 | Wojciech Kowalski | 1:38:10 | +6:00 | 7:21 | |
| 4 | Eetu Savolainen | 1:42:31 | +10:21 | 7:40 | |
| 5 | Ionut Zinca | 1:42:36 | +10:26 | 7:41 | |
| 6 | Alessio Tenani | 1:42:39 | +10:29 | 7:41 | |
| 7 | Janne Mänkärlä | 1:44:58 | +12:48 | 7:51 | |
| 8 | Markus Räsänen | 1:45:09 | +12:59 | 7:52 | |
| 9 | Manuel Jurado Alonso | 1:46:58 | +14:48 | 8:00 | |
| 10 | Olli-Pekka Koistinen | 1:47:04 | +14:54 | 8:01 | |
| 11 | Vegard Danielsen | 1:49:00 | +16:50 | 8:09 | |
| 12 | Roger Casal Fernández | 1:49:38 | +17:28 | 8:12 | |
| 13 | Anton Johansson | 1:50:52 | +18:42 | 8:18 | |
| 14 | Aleksander Bernaciak | 1:50:59 | +18:49 | 8:18 | |
| 15 | Cristóbal Camarasa Pérez | 1:51:50 | +19:40 | 8:22 |
Women
| 1 | Svetlana Mironova | 1:20:01 | 8:44 | ||
| 2 | Sara Eskilsson | 1:30:46 | +10:45 | 9:55 | |
| 3 | Katja Gygax | 1:30:48 | +10:47 | 9:55 | |
| 4 | Galina Vinogradova | 1:31:15 | +11:14 | 9:58 | |
| 5 | Aino Mänkärlä | 1:32:03 | +12:02 | 10:03 | |
| 6 | Josefine Engström | 1:32:07 | +12:06 | 10:04 | |
| 7 | Ewa Gwozdz | 1:32:09 | +12:08 | 10:04 | |
| 8 | Nadiya Volynska | 1:32:40 | +12:39 | 10:07 | |
| 9 | Natalia Gurkenchova | 1:37:56 | +17:55 | 10:42 | |
| 10 | Esther Gil i Brotons | 1:38:00 | +17:59 | 10:42 | |
| 11 | Dominique Bucher | 1:43:37 | +23:36 | 11:19 | |
| 12 | Agata Stankiewicz | 1:49:21 | +29:20 | 11:57 | |
| 13 | Violeta Feliciano Sanjuan | 1:49:53 | +29:52 | 12:00 | |
| 14 | Hanna Wisniewska | 1:52:29 | +32:28 | 12:17 | |
| 15 | Laura Scaravonati | 2:07:53 | +47:52 | 13:58 |
