World of O News
Helena Jansson decided the first race in the World Cup Sprint Relay 2017 for Sweden in a close fight with Denmark’s Maja Alm. Alm was later disqualified due to a miss-punch, and Switzerland’s Elena Roos did thus lead Switzerland in to second place 13 seconds behind with Great Britain in third one minute behind.
Sweden ran an excellent relay – and managed to keep the other teams behind all the way until the end. Denmark’s Maja Alm got a perfect chasing position, and it looked like she would manage to catch and pass Jansson until the very end. A combination of a somewhat longer forking towards the end of the race and the chase of Jansson earlier on the course took that extra energy out of Alm, and thus Jansson could beat the fast Danish woman in a one-to-one fight – a very positive experience to bring to the World Championships in Estonia in one month’s time.
Switzerland was in the fight for the victory until the middle of the last leg, but Roos could not fully keep up with the speed of Jansson and Alm. Tessa Strain did a good race for Great Britain on the last leg, bringing them in to third position, but the gap up to the three teams in front was too big already from the start.
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World Cup Sprint Relay 1st leg
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World Cup Sprint Relay 2nd leg
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World Cup Sprint Relay 3rd leg
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World Cup Sprint Relay 4th leg
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Results
| 1 | 3 |  |
Sweden | 53:15 | ||||
| 1 Karolin Ohlsson | 13:28 | |||||||
| 2 Emil Svensk | 13:06 | 26:35 | ||||||
| 3 Jonas Leandersson | 13:18 | 39:54 | ||||||
| 4 Helena Jansson | 13:20 | 53:15 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 |  |
Switzerland | 53:28 | ||||
| 1 Sabine Hauswirth | 13:28 | |||||||
| 2 Florian Howald | 13:09 | 26:38 | ||||||
| 3 Martin Hubmann | 13:18 | 39:56 | ||||||
| 4 Elena Roos | 13:32 | 53:28 | ||||||
| 3 | 8 |  |
Great Britain | 54:28 | ||||
| 1 Catherine Taylor | 13:30 | |||||||
| 2 Peter Hodkinson | 13:28 | 26:58 | ||||||
| 3 Ralph Street | 13:30 | 40:29 | ||||||
| 4 Tessa Strain | 13:59 | 54:28 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 |  |
Russia | 54:34 | ||||
| 1 Anastasia Rudnaya | 13:31 | |||||||
| 2 Dmitry Tsvetkov | 13:30 | 27:02 | ||||||
| 3 Andrey Khramov | 13:35 | 40:37 | ||||||
| 4 Galina Vinogradova | 13:57 | 54:34 | ||||||
| 5 | 24 |  |
Finland 2 | 54:54 | ||||
| 1 Sari Anttonen | 13:46 | |||||||
| 2 Marten B Bostrom | 13:28 | 27:15 | ||||||
| 3 Otto Simosas | 13:34 | 40:49 | ||||||
| 4 Merja Rantanen | 14:04 | 54:54 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 |  |
Norway | 55:41 | ||||
| 1 Nikoline Ekeberg Schjerve | 14:31 | |||||||
| 2 Jon Aukrust Osmoen | 13:22 | 27:53 | ||||||
| 3 Hakon Jarvis Westergard | 13:29 | 41:23 | ||||||
| 4 Ida Marie Naess Bjoergul | 14:17 | 55:41 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 |  |
Czech Republic | 55:48 | ||||
| 1 Tereza Janosikova | 14:24 | |||||||
| 2 Jan Petrzela | 13:46 | 28:11 | ||||||
| 3 Vojtech Kral | 13:10 | 41:22 | ||||||
| 4 Adela Indrakova | 14:26 | 55:48 | ||||||
| 8 | 20 |  |
Denmark 2 | 55:49 | ||||
| 1 Ida Bobach | 13:31 | |||||||
| 2 Soeren Schwartz | 13:28 | 26:59 | ||||||
| 3 Magnus Dewett | 13:56 | 40:55 | ||||||
| 4 Caroline Gjotterup | 14:53 | 55:49 | ||||||
| 9 | 10 |  |
Austria | 56:51 | ||||
| 1 Laura Ramstein | 15:01 | |||||||
| 2 Robert Merl | 13:49 | 28:51 | ||||||
| 3 Matthias Reiner | 13:50 | 42:41 | ||||||
| 4 Ursula Kadan | 14:09 | 56:51 | ||||||
| 10 | 9 |  |
France | 57:25 | ||||
| 1 Amelie Chataing | 15:00 | |||||||
| 2 Lucas Basset | 13:40 | 28:40 | ||||||
| 3 Adrien Delenne | 13:44 | 42:24 | ||||||
| 4 Isia Basset | 15:00 | 57:25 | ||||||
