World Cup Finland 2017: All You Need To Know

[Follow races LIVE on webTV] The 2017 Orienteering World Cup starts in Turku, Finland this week with a Sprint Relay Wednesday May 24th and continues in Lohja with a Sprint race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Long distance chasing start race on Sunday. 

The chasing start on Sunday is based on the Sprint and the Middle distance races. Most of the top athletes are present in Finland at the first World Cup round of the season (see full list of entries at the bottom of this page).

Useful links:

• The organizers’ LIVE page with links to start lists, live results and GPS-tracking for each race. Results and split times should also be posted here after each race – see also IOF Eventor for official information.
• IOFs Liveorienteering webpage for live webTV (4 EUR/race or 12 EUR for all races). The LIVE Orienteering broadcast will offer expert commentary by David Brickhill-Jones for the Sprint Relay, and Mikko Reitti for the Sprint, Middle and Long Distance.
• The organizers’ main webpage with other competition information
• Bulletin 4 with all relevant event information
• The organizers’ Twitter account @owcup2017fin – results will be tweeted at @owcupfinres

Detailed Program

• Wednesday May 24th
  • 14:50 CET: Sprint Relay
• Thursday May 25th
  • 09:00 CET: Sprint Qualification
  • 17:05 CET: Sprint Final Men
  • 18:00 CET: Sprint Final Women
• Saturday May 27th
  • 09:10 CET: Middle Women
  • 12:10 CET: Middle Men
• Sunday May 28th
  • 09:10 CET: Long Chasing start Men
  • 09:40 CET: Long Chasing start Women

All top runners on the start

Nearly all top runners are on the start for the World Cup opening 2017 – of the Top 10 ranked men and women according to the World Ranking only 3 athletes are missing: Judith Wyder who just announced earlier this week that she is pregnant and will stop her season immediately, Carl Godager Kaas who stopped his elite career at the end of last season and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg. Several nations also use the World Cup races in Finland as selection races for the World Orienteering Championships which is organized in Estonia already at the end of June/early July.

World Cup 2016: Alexandersson and Kyburz

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the overall World Cup in 2016. Both are present in Finland for the World Cup 2017 opening, and both have shown good shape so far in the season and are expected to fight in the top this year. Other favourites for this weekend include Maja Alm (Denmark) who impressed in Estonia recently, Helena Jansson (Sweden) who ran very well in the Swedish selection races, Natalia Gemperle and Svetlana Mironova (Russia), Olav Lundanes (Norway), Gustav Bergman (Sweden), Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland).

Details about the races

Sprint Relay

Urban city centre with parks and green areas. Approximately 80 % of the courses will be on hard surfaces. Altitude 5-40 m above sea level. A special characteristic is the steep slope rising to the south of the Aura River, with some dense vegetation as well as open rock-areas which might be slippery when wet. There are many stairs in the area as well as narrow crossings! Also many pedestrians will move in the area.

Sprint Qualification & Final

Qualification: Urban residential area with parks and green areas. Approximately 80 % of the courses will be on hard surfaces. Altitude 60-90 m above sea level.

Final: Urban residential area with parks and green areas. Approximately 80 % of the courses will be on hard surfaces. Altitude 30-100 m above sea level.

Middle distance

Mainly coniferous commercial forest with both pine and spruce as main tree species. The age of the forest varies from young to mature forest. There are some harvested areas. Mostly good runnability. The terrain is undulating, with some open areas on the hilltops. Only few paths, forwarder trails and forest roads. Altitude 60 – 150 m above sea level.

Long distance chasing start

Mainly coniferous commercial forest with both pine and spruce as main tree species. The age of the forest varies from young to mature forest. There are some harvested areas. Mostly good runnability. The terrain is undulating, with some open areas on the hilltops. Also steep slopes and depressions. Only few paths, forwarder trails and forest roads. Altitude 60 – 150 m above sea level

 

List of registered athletes (sorted by WRE position)

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	849	Olav Lundanes	NOR	13003
2	1	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
3	2	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
27	3	Jonas Leandersson	SWE	12555
25	4	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
4	854	Magne Daehli	NOR	8654
123	5	Tim Robertson	NZL	15525
6	473	Thierry Gueorgiou	FRA	10184
76	6	Emil Svensk	SWE	16905
31	7	Martin Hubmann	SUI	10851
7	33	Lucas Basset	FRA	7403
12	8	Florian Howald	SUI	10810
8	9	Gustav Bergman	SWE	7562
9	2143	Jan Sedivy	CZE	16065
10	62	Fredric Portin	FIN	15101
134	10	Oystein Kvaal Osterbo	NOR	18660
11	14	Frederic Tranchand	FRA	17348
24	11	Vojtech Kral	CZE	12187
13	35	Gernot Kerschbaumer	AUT	11671
83	13	Hakon Jarvis Westergard	NOR	11163
15	20	Albin Ridefelt	SWE	15472
20	15	Eskil Kinneberg	NOR	11757
16	44	Milos Nykodym	CZE	14322
748	17	Andreas Hougaard Boesen	DEN	7760
18	53	Johan Runesson	SWE	15668
19	38	Ruslan Glibov	UKR	9910
32	19	Oskar Sjoeberg	SWE	16382
21	526	Valentin Novikov	RUS	14278
43	21	Ralph Street	GBR	16782
22	43	Timo Sild	EST	16283
58	22	Tue Lassen	DEN	12487
23	47	Jan Petrzela	CZE	14896
55	24	Andreu Blanes	ESP	15397
46	25	Andrey Khramov	RUS	11718
65	26	Kenny Kivikas	EST	11784
81	27	Jonas Egger	SUI	18893
129	28	Peter Hodkinson	GBR	10688
28	109	Dmitry Tsvetkov	RUS	17414
125	29	Aleksi Niemi	FIN	18700
30	97	Oleksandr Kratov	UKR	12116
53	32	Robert Merl	AUT	13549
33	904	Olli Markus Taivainen	FIN	17027
214	34	Yannick Michiels	BEL	13592
34	447	William Lind	SWE	12778
36	247	Pavel Kubat	CZE	12195
47	36	Vincent Coupat	FRA	8581
39	246	Bartosz Pawlak	POL	14725
59	40	Gaute Hallan Steiwer	NOR	16697
42	239	Fabian Hertner	SUI	10627
44	74	Wojciech Kowalski	POL	12068
68	48	Antonio Martinez Perez	ESP	13326
49	986	Leonid Novikov	RUS	14276
50	–	Nicolas Rio	FRA	18921
93	50	Florian Schneider	SUI	15991
73	51	Sander Vaher	EST	17566
105	52	Arturs Paulins	LAT	14704
52	108	Denys Shcherbakov	UKR	16187
198	55	Eduardo Gil Marcos	ESP	13255
57	63	Miika Kirmula	FIN	11767
66	57	Pavlo Ushkvarok	UKR	17541
107	58	Jon Aukrust Osmoen	NOR	14509
74	59	Christoph Meier	SUI	13502
60	907	Lauri Sild	EST	16281
61	61	Dmitrii Nakonechnyi	RUS	14003
227	64	Chris Smithard	GBR	16491
167	66	Matthias Reiner	AUT	15405
204	66	Jonathan Crickmore	GBR	8598
67	99	Andris Jubelis	LAT	11329
130	68	Otto Simosas	FIN	16342
71	475	Elias Kuukka	FIN	22101
72	–	Jo Forseth Indgaard	NOR	11009
75	1058	Alan Cherry	GBR	8363
265	76	Magnus Dewett	DEN	8831
110	79	Michal Olejnik	POL	14406
544	82	Jakob Edsen	DEN	22688
352	84	Gleb Tikhonov	RUS	17241
555	86	Marvin Goericke	GER	9942
86	89	Einari Heinaro	FIN	10547
331	90	Henry McNulty	NOR	13483
139	91	Riccardo Scalet	ITA	18966
93	580	Bjarne Friedrichs	GER	9624
156	96	Matthias Groell	AUT	10166
100	168	Olli Ojanaho	FIN	19846
102	486	Artem Panchenko	UKR	14617
243	103	Marek Minar	CZE	20166
108	110	Rudolfs Zernis	LAT	18506
207	111	Quentin Rauturier	FRA	20655
491	111	Jonas Hubacek	CZE	20162
176	117	Kristo Heinmann	EST	10551
183	118	Loic Marty	FRA	20696
286	121	Adrien Delenne	FRA	19918
302	128	Roman Ciobanu	ROU	8458
223	130	Felix Spaeth	GER	16618
132	187	Bjoern Cederberg	DEN	22960
184	138	Tomas Kubelka	CZE	19046
228	171	Sebastian Inderst	ITA	11008
385	175	Gregory Ahlswede	USA	6830
262	184	Mathias Peter	AUT	14853
298	197	Nitsan Yasur	ISR	20182
200	556	Tonis Laugesaar	EST	12506
455	212	Tsz Wai Yu	HKG	18305
394	213	Matthias Kretzschmar	GER	12131
490	216	Hirokazu Osaki	JPN	14498
223	272	Peter Bray	GBR	7928
616	224	Kin Wai Lee	HKG	12575
776	243	Ulf Forseth Indgaard	NOR	11010
278	313	Alessio Tenani	ITA	17146
286	299	Andris Kivlenieks	LAT	11786
851	286	Wing Chung Tam	HKG	17053
356	452	Soeren Schwartz	DEN	17008
1287	360	Man Long Chow	HKG	21058
410	1249	Desmond Franssen	BEL	9590
691	438	Matthew Schepisi	AUS	15959
915	477	Riccardo Rancan	SUI	18900
754	564	Kerrin Rattray	AUS	15355
738	2143	Bryan RusselKeely	AUS	11635
2347	829	Ka Ching Lam	HKG	12398
1201	1530	Asaf Avner	ISR	7199
2655	2143	Piotr Parfianowicz	POL	14642

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	9	Tove Alexandersson	SWE	65
2	34	Natalia Gemperle	RUS	6259
8	2	Maja Alm	DEN	77
71	3	Galina Vinogradova	RUS	6258
38	4	Elena Roos	SUI	4961
4	17	Helena Jansson	SWE	2511
24	5	Nadiya Volynska	UKR	6284
5	11	Sabine Hauswirth	SUI	2100
21	6	Lina Strand	SWE	5654
6	59	Emily Kemp	CAN	2807
13	7	Merja Rantanen	FIN	4811
15	8	Marika Teini	FIN	5868
9	31	Svetlana Mironova	RUS	3932
10	18	Julia Gross	SUI	1867
12	64	Saila Kinni	FIN	2876
14	12	Anastasia Rudnaya	RUS	5930
44	13	Karolin Ohlsson	SWE	4277
39	14	Sari Anttonen	FIN	166
58	15	Silje Ekroll Jahren	NOR	2486
16	–	Emma Johansson	SWE	2585
32	16	Denisa Kosova	CZE	3061
34	19	Sarina Jenzer	SUI	2549
20	290	Hollie Orr	GBR	4347
53	20	Cecilie Friberg Klysner	DEN	23304
22	22	Venla Harju	FIN	4150
37	23	Isia Basset	FRA	332
24	95	Natalia Efimova	RUS	3050
42	24	Ursula Kadan	AUT	2678
26	29	Ida Marie Naess Bjoergul	NOR	499
96	26	Kirsi Nurmi	FIN	4233
27	281	Amelie Chataing	FRA	893
51	27	Lilian Forsgren	SWE	1592
28	38	Yulia Novikova	RUS	4212
68	28	Sara Hagstrom	SWE	1997
30	35	Sofia Haajanen	FIN	1963
45	30	Ingjerd Myhre	NOR	4043
31	68	Emma Johansson	NOR	2586
48	32	Marianne Andersen	NOR	113
33	48	Adela Indrakova	CZE	2430
88	33	Aleksandra Hornik	POL	19685
36	299	Catherine Taylor	GBR	5861
80	39	Carlotta Scalet	ITA	5184
40	43	Alva Olsson	SWE	4312
65	40	Laura Ramstein	AUT	4800
201	41	Nikoline Ekeberg Schjerve	NOR	5208
41	529	Ida Bobach	DEN	536
103	45	Martina Ruch	SUI	18903
46	55	Jana Knapova	CZE	2942
59	46	Fanni Gyurko	HUN	1953
47	74	Susen Loesch	GER	3602
84	47	Josefin Tjernlund	SWE	19038
239	49	Laura Robertson	NZL	4916
49	104	Inga Dambe	LAT	1107
67	52	Evely Kaasiku	EST	2672
54	183	Annika Rihma	EST	4894
55	621	Jessica Tullie	GBR	2021
57	179	Miia Niittynen	FIN	4161
60	63	Vendula Horcickova	CZE	19096
61	123	Laura Vike	LAT	6236
1055	62	Charlotte Ward	GBR	6342
109	66	Lauriane Beauvisage	FRA	18911
94	69	Irina Nyberg	RUS	4227
70	562	Anna Serrallonga Arques	ESP	192
175	72	Violeta Feliciano Sanjuan	ESP	5140
120	87	Ewa Gwozdz	POL	1946
99	88	Andrine Benjaminsen	NOR	396
93	89	Sandra Grosberga	LAT	1865
119	91	Caroline Gjotterup	DEN	1757
91	287	Tessa Strain	GBR	2199
97	301	Lisa Holer	SUI	18902
113	98	Olga Sluta	UKR	5493
100	237	Anja Arbter	AUT	173
102	146	Barbora Hruskova	CZE	2326
580	110	Katerina Chroma	CZE	966
114	537	Miri Thrane Oedum	DEN	6735
192	116	Krystal Neumann	AUS	4127
134	129	Arntraut Goetsch	GER	1958
173	134	Kerstin Uiboupin	EST	6080
276	139	Aislinn Prendergast	AUS	4697
188	154	Maelle Beauvir	FRA	20207
581	163	Ka Ki Leung	HKG	3408
166	361	Marianne Haug	EST	22989
203	171	Patricia Nieke	GER	4138
259	174	Megan Carter Davies	GBR	844
184	724	Chloe Haberkorn	FRA	20211
186	291	Magdalena Tuzilova	CZE	23400
195	244	Irita Pukite	LAT	4737
208	224	Kate Morrison	NZL	3996
214	295	Olena Pitirimova	UKR	4616
286	222	Margret Zimmermann	EST	6631
237	380	Weronika Cych	POL	1081
642	239	Emma Waddington	CAN	6311
243	530	Tatyana Riabkina	RUS	4880
296	246	Paula Starke	GER	20062
389	248	Carina Polzer	AUT	4657
369	256	Laura Leiboma	LAT	19190
270	1348	Christiane Troesse	GER	6027
1138	283	Hau Wah Brenda Chan	HKG	882
1237	305	Sze Wing Yee	HKG	6523
467	307	Paula Gross	SUI	18906
315	344	Liis Johanson	EST	2580
320	689	Gabija Razaityte	LTU	4836
484	329	Hanna Mueller	SUI	18908
358	332	Amanda Falck Weber	DEN	6357
362	594	Olena Fedorova	UKR	25660
407	370	Anika Gassner	AUT	20213
448	–	Kateryna Dzema	UKR	25007
–	538	Tereza Janosikova	CZE	28127
693	1348	Anine Ahlsand	NOR	41
701	–	Viktoriia Sukharevska	UKR	5699
1245	893	Ka Man Leung	HKG	21044
1020	–	Maika Moriya	JPN	20113
–	1348	Anna Reinhardt	GER	4857
–	–	Hinako Inage	JPN	2426