World Cup Norway 2018 Relay: Maps, Results & Analysis

Sweden’s women and Norway’s men won tight battles on tricky courses at the pre-WOC/World Cup relay in Østfold, Norway this Sunday.

For many runners this was the fourth race in three days this weekend – starting with a tough (a little bit shortened) long distance on Friday, continuing with an intense chasing start with prologue on Saturday and finishing with the relay on Sunday. – There were lots of heavy legs in the field today, Olav Lundanes in the Norwegian winning relay team put it in the post-race interview.

– There were lots of heavy legs in the field today (Olav Lundanes)

Men: Sweden in the lead throughout – Norway took it in the end

Compared to the chasing start on Saturday which was mostly about following the other runners in a pack without the need to focus on the map, the relay offered intriguing orienteering with many mistakes of 30-60 seconds which made the race interesting to watch.

Below a graphical representation of the battle for the win is shown for all common controls throughout the race. Here the 9th control is the end of the first leg and the 18th control the end of the second leg. All four top teams are within 60 seconds throughout most of the course, but all of the teams are at least 50 seconds behind at a point in the race. Sweden leads most of the race.

Notably Switzerland’s Daniel Hubmann did some big mistakes on the first leg, and Switzerland never got into the relay with Howald and Kyburz also doing bigger mistakes, as you can see in this graph including the top 11 teams.

Bergman loses time on start of second leg – Lundanes catches up:

Lundanes loses time on 4 control on 2nd leg – Bergman gets a one minute gap.

Lind makes a 75 second mistake on the start of the last leg – Kral takes the lead, and Dæhli also passes Lind. Lind catches up again later, though.

Finish sprint which Norway’s Dæhli decides:

Hubmann’s first mistake on the first leg:

Hubmann’s second mistake – passes the control without punching and has to go back:

Women: Safe win by Sweden

In the women’s race Sweden was more dominant – taking the lead towards the end of the first leg after a good race by Lina Strand – Karolin Ohlsson following up with an excellent race on the second leg where she took Sweden to a clear lead – and Tove Alexandersson finishing in her usual style. Notably also here Switzerland did big mistakes already on the first leg and lost contact with the leading teams.

There was some excitment on the last leg though, as Norway’s last leg runner Kamilla Olaussen got as close as 50 seconds to Alexandersson – but then Olaussen did a 45 second mistake and the gap increased again, and Alexandersson was safe.

 

Norway’s Olaussen gets closer:

.. but then misses again:

Maps and GPS-tracking

See maps below and GPS-tracking here.

Results

Men

1	Norway 1				1:54:12
	1. Eskil Kinneberg	39:01	7	+0:50	39:01	7
	2. Olav Lundanes	37:53	4	+0:05	1:16:54	5	-2
	3. Magne Daehli	37:18	1		1:54:12	1	-4
2	Sweden 1				1:54:15
	1. Albin Ridefelt	38:11	1		38:11	1
	2. Gustav Bergman	38:05	5	+0:17	1:16:16	1	0
	3. William Lind	37:59	3	+0:41	1:54:15	2	+1
3	Sweden 2				1:54:36
	1. Martin Regborn	39:02	8	+0:51	39:02	8
	2. Jonas Leandersson	37:48	1		1:16:50	2	-6
	3. Emil Svensk	37:46	2	+0:28	1:54:36	3	+1
4	Czech Republic 1				1:55:36
	1. Jan Petrzela	39:03	9	+0:52	39:03	9
	2. Milos Nykodym	37:48	1		1:16:51	3	-6
	3. Vojtech Kral	38:45	5	+1:27	1:55:36	4	+1
5	Norway 2				1:58:28
	1. Hakon Jarvis Westergard	39:12	10	+1:01	39:12	10
	2. Gaute Hallan Steiwer	40:38	10	+2:50	1:19:50	7	-3
	3. Paul Sirum	38:38	4	+1:20	1:58:28	5	-2
6	Norway 3				1:58:37
	1. Jo Forseth Indgaard	38:59	3	+0:48	38:59	3
	2. Jon Aukrust Osmoen	37:52	3	+0:04	1:16:51	3	0
	3. Yngve Skogstad	41:46	16	+4:28	1:58:37	6	+3
7	Finland 1				2:02:23
	1. Miika Kirmula	41:38	18	+3:27	41:38	18
	2. Fredric Portin	41:16	12	+3:28	1:22:54	12	-6
	3. Aleksi Niemi	39:29	7	+2:11	2:02:23	7	-5
8	Switzerland 2				2:02:44
	1. Florian Schneider	38:54	2	+0:43	38:54	2
	2. Jonas Egger	42:51	17	+5:03	1:21:45	11	+9
	3. Andreas Kyburz	40:59	13	+3:41	2:02:44	8	-3
9	Ukraine 1				2:02:49
	1. Denys Shcherbakov	39:51	12	+1:40	39:51	12
	2. Ruslan Glibov	39:30	6	+1:42	1:19:21	6	-6
	3. Artem Panchenko	43:28	17	+6:10	2:02:49	9	+3
10	Finland 3				2:03:19
	1. Einari Heinaro	40:02	13	+1:51	40:02	13
	2. Olli Markus Taivainen	41:35	13	+3:47	1:21:37	10	-3
	3. Hannu Airila	41:42	15	+4:24	2:03:19	10	0

Women

1	Sweden 1				1:52:55
	1. Lina Strand	37:27	1		37:27	1
	2. Karolin Ohlsson	38:36	2	+0:13	1:16:03	1	0
	3. Tove Alexandersson	36:52	1		1:52:55	1	0
2	Norway 1				1:55:18
	1. Silje Ekroll Jahren	39:07	7	+1:40	39:07	7
	2. Marianne Andersen	38:23	1		1:17:30	2	-5
	3. Kamilla Olaussen	37:48	2	+0:56	1:55:18	2	0
3	Finland 1				1:56:27
	1. Sari Anttonen	38:49	6	+1:22	38:49	6
	2. Lotta Karhola	39:46	3	+1:23	1:18:35	4	-2
	3. Henna Riikka Haikonen	37:52	3	+1:00	1:56:27	3	-1
4	Finland 2				1:58:01
	1. Maija Sianoja	37:35	3	+0:08	37:35	3
	2. Miia Niittynen	40:54	4	+2:31	1:18:29	3	0
	3. Anna Narhi	39:32	5	+2:40	1:58:01	4	+1
5	Switzerland 1				2:03:36
	1. Julia Jakob	40:58	9	+3:31	40:58	9
	2. Simona Aebersold	43:07	8	+4:44	1:24:05	6	-3
	3. Sabine Hauswirth	39:31	4	+2:39	2:03:36	5	-1
6	Switzerland 2				2:04:41
	1. Paula Gross	37:48	5	+0:21	37:48	5
	2. Sofie Bachmann	42:20	5	+3:57	1:20:08	5	0
	3. Sarina Jenzer	44:33	17	+7:41	2:04:41	6	+1
7	Austria 1				2:05:55
	1. Carina Polzer	41:26	11	+3:59	41:26	11
	2. Anja Arbter	43:10	9	+4:47	1:24:36	7	-4
	3. Ursula Kadan	41:19	8	+4:27	2:05:55	7	0
8	Sweden 3				2:08:54
	1. Lilian Forsgren	41:41	12	+4:14	41:41	12
	2. Josefin Tjernlund	45:00	15	+6:37	1:26:41	10	-2
	3. Elin Månsson	42:13	10	+5:21	2:08:54	8	-2
9	Norway 2				2:09:32
	1. Kine Hallan Steiwer	42:46	16	+5:19	42:46	16
	2. Ingjerd Myhre	44:06	11	+5:43	1:26:52	11	-5
	3. Marie Olaussen	42:40	12	+5:48	2:09:32	9	-2
10	Norway 3				2:10:03
	1. Ingrid Lundanes	45:27	20	+8:00	45:27	20
	2. Ingeborg Eide	42:57	7	+4:34	1:28:24	12	-8
	3. Siri Ulvestad	41:39	9	+4:47	2:10:03	10	-2

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