WMOC 2016: Maps and Results

Sweden with twelve Gold medals and Finland with eleven Gold medals were the strongest nations then the World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) were organized in Estonia the last week. More than 3000 athletes were at the start.

The championships consists of a sprint final along with a single qualification race and a long distance final along with two qualification races. Nine competitors managed to win the double – Gold in both sprint and long distance: Natasha Key from Australia in W45 (who will also compete for Australia at the World Championships in Sweden later this August), Marja Viirmann from Estonia in W55,  Kari Timenes Laugen from Norway in W70,  Ebba-Lisa Flygar from Sweden in W80, Astrid Andersson from Sweden in W95, Dmitry Mihalkin from Belarus in M35, Petteri Muukkonen from Finland in M40, Helmut Conrad from Germany in M75, and Arvo Majoinen in M90.

Next year WMOC will be organized in New Zealand in late April as part of The World Games.

Maps (Routegadget)

Note that RouteGadget from Long Qualification race number 2 and Long Final was not available at the time of writing.

Maps (Selected maps from personal map archives)

GPS Tracking (update based on comments)

GPS-tracking from the final for some classes is available here.

Selected Results (Gold medalists)

Long Distance

W35  Elli Virta FIN

W40  Irita Pukite LAT

W45  Natasha Key AUS

W50  Annika Viilo FIN

W55  Marja Viirmann EST

W60  Lidia Shorokhova RUS

W65  Tamara Ovsiannikova RUS

W70  Kari Timenes Laugen NOR

W75  Birgitta Olsson SWE

W80  Ebba-Lisa Flygar SWE

W85  Lisa Hedström SWE

W95  Astrid Andersson SWE

M35  Dmitry Mihalkin BLR

M40  Petteri Muukkonen FIN

M45  Johan Pettersson SWE

M50  Oleg Anuchkin ITA

M55  Håkan Eriksson SWE

M60  Rolf Lund DEN

M65  Tapio Peippo FIN

M70  Risto Wessman FIN

M75  Helmut Conrad GER

M80  Rune Carlsson SWE

M85  Pentti Pelkonen FIN

M90  Arvo Majoinen FIN

• Full results Long

Sprint

W35 Galina Vinogradova RUS

W40 Annika Björk SWE

W45 Natasha Key AUS

W50 Airi Alnek EST

W55 Marje Viirmann EST

W60 Alena Rosecka CZE

W65 Maria Nordwall SWE

W70 Kari Timenes Laugen NOR

W75 Ilse Uus EST

W80 Ebba-Lisa Flyger SWE

W85 Vre Harzenmoser CZE

W90 Elvy Fredin SWE

W95 Astrid Andersson SWE

M35 Dmitry Mihalkin BLR

M40 Petteri Muukkonen FIN

M45 Thomas Jensen DEN

M50 Tzvetan Todorov BUL

M55 Stefan Bolliger CZE

M60 James Crawford GBR

M65 Raimo Hyyryläinen FIN

M70 Olli Lehtinen FIN

M75 Helmut Conrad GER

M80 Jaroslav Havlik CZE

M85 Atsushi Takahashi JPN

M90 Arvo Majoinen FIN

• Full results Sprint

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