JWOC 2016 Middle: Maps and Results

Jan Kocbach July 14, 2016 Orienteering News Comments Off on JWOC 2016 Middle: Maps and Results

Another Swiss day at the Junior World Orienteering Championship at the middle distance: Gold for Simona Aebersold in the women’s class and Thomas Curiger in the men’s class.

In the women’s class Polish Aleksandra Hornik took a very popular silver medal with Swedish Johanna Öberg in third. In the men’s class the double gold medalist from earlier this week, Joey Hadorn, took the silver medal and Norwegian Audun Heimdal took the only individual medal for Norway at this championships, a bronze medal.

Lead from start to finish

Simona Aebersold did a very strong race, leading the race all the way from start to finish. In the end the victory margin was nearly 2 minutes to the Polish Aleksandra Hornik. The Pole had also a strong race, only a small mistake at the 5th control – but her speed was simply not as high as the Swiss gold medalist from the Sprint.

The only place Hornik was faster was her fantastic straight route to the 2nd leg (see below) and the routechoice to control 12 where Aebersold turned around at the cliff and lost 10-12 seconds.

Illustration: Aebersold in the lead already to the 2nd control.

Illustration: Aebersold vs Hornik.

Illustration: Hornik brought her compass to Switzerland.

Hadorn with highest speed – Curiger with best orienteering

Joey Hadorn had again the highest speed, but Thomas Curiger with an excellent technical race proved that the middle distance is a discipline in which it is difficult to fix mistakes with high running speed as Hadorn did in both sprint and long distance. In the end Curiger was 49 seconds faster than Hadorn, Hadorn having left significantly more than that in the forest due to non-optimal orienteering.

Illustration: 35 seconds mistake to the 4th control by Hadorn – one of the mistakes of the Swiss silver medalist.

Illustration: Ojanaho with big mistake at 9th control – out of the medal fight.

Full analysis

A full analysis of the race will be available at WorldofO.com tomorrow morning. Tomorrow the championship finishes with the relay.

Results

Men

1.	Thomas Curiger	Switzerland	24:21	(+0:00)
2.	Joey Hadorn	Switzerland	25:10	(+0:49)
3.	Audun Heimdal	Norway	25:32	(+1:11)
4.	Anton Forsberg	Sweden	25:35	(+1:14)
5.	Noah Zbinden	Switzerland	25:40	(+1:19)
6.	Isac von Krusenstierna	Sweden	25:53	(+1:32)
7.	Anton Kuukka	Finland	26:08	(+1:47)
8.	Mathias Peter	Austria	26:21	(+2:00)
9.	Shamus Morrison	New Zealand	26:27	(+2:06)
10.	Jesper Svensk	Sweden	26:28	(+2:07)
11.	Mathieu Perrin	France	26:35	(+2:14)
12.	Oskar Stormer	Norway	26:41	(+2:20)
13.	Simon Hector	Sweden	26:48	(+2:27)
14.	Simon Imark	Sweden	27:01	(+2:40)
15.	Elias Thorsdal Molnvik	Norway	27:05	(+2:44)
16.	Alexander Chepelin	Great Britain	27:09	(+2:48)
16.	Riccardo Rancan	Switzerland	27:09	(+2:48)
18.	Mikhail Kuleshov	Russia	27:11	(+2:50)
19.	Olli Ojanaho	Finland	27:12	(+2:51)
20.	Vegard Jarvis Westergard	Norway	27:16	(+2:55)

Women

1.	Simona Aebersold	Switzerland	24:06	(+0:00)
2.	Aleksandra Hornik	Poland	25:56	(+1:50)
3.	Johanna Oberg	Sweden	26:17	(+2:11)
4.	Megan Carter Davies	Great Britain	27:28	(+3:22)
5.	Anna Haataja	Finland	27:31	(+3:25)
6.	Hanna Mueller	Switzerland	27:37	(+3:31)
7.	Paula Gross	Switzerland	27:39	(+3:33)
8.	Anna Dvorianskaia	Russia	27:47	(+3:41)
9.	Tilda Johansson	Sweden	27:50	(+3:44)
10.	Valerie Aebischer	Switzerland	28:20	(+4:14)
11.	Sofie Bachmann	Switzerland	28:32	(+4:26)
12.	Anna Stickova	Czech Republic	28:46	(+4:40)
13.	Victoria Haestad Bjornstad	Norway	28:47	(+4:41)
14.	Enni Jalava	Finland	29:00	(+4:54)
15.	Jasmina Gassner	Austria	29:38	(+5:32)
16.	Aasne Skram Troemborg	United States of America	29:46	(+5:40)
17.	Elin Carlsson	Sweden	29:47	(+5:41)
18.	Ingrid Lundanes	Norway	29:51	(+5:45)
19.	Tereza Novakova	Czech Republic	30:11	(+6:05)
20.	Barbora Chaloupska	Czech Republic	30:17	(+6:11)