WOC 2023 Middle Qual: Maps and Results

Jan Kocbach July 12, 2023 Orienteering News Comments Off on WOC 2023 Middle Qual: Maps and Results

Sweden and Switzerland dominated a technical and interesting Middle qualifier at the opening of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Trin, Switzerland. Hanna Lundberg (Sweden), Tove Alexandersson (Sweden), Simona Aebersold (Switzerland), Joey Hadorn (Switzerland), Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) took the victories.

All favourites and biggest outsiders made the cut to Saturday’s Middle final, with Sabine Hauswirth (Switzerland), Marion Aebi (Switzerland) and Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway) among the top contenders losing most time with 5-6 minutes up the respective heat winners.

In the women’s class we saw very impressive races by Alexandersson, Lundberg and Aebersold, all winning their heats with 2 minutes or more. Most impressive was Alexandersson who had 2:42 down to Natalia Gemperle in second place. But with a hard long distance race for many runners already tomorrow, not all have shown all their cards on today’s qualifier, saving some energy for both tommorrow’s long distance and the races in the weekend.

In the men’s class the race was closer, with the heat winners having around a minutes margin to the following runners – from the qualification results it looks like there are 10-15 runners or more who will battle for the medals on Saturday. With technical orienteering as here in the Laax Flims area, it will be very difficult to predict the medals. But Kyburz, Ridefelt and Hadorn have definitely shown that they master the terrain – and so has Lucas Basset (France), Gustav Bergman (Sweden), Kasper Fosser (Norway), Anton Johansson (Sweden), Gaute Steiwer (Norway) and Emil Svensk (Sweden).

An analysis of GPS-data and split times will be published later.

Maps and GPS-tracking

Results

Qualification for the final

The Top 15 from each heat qualify to Saturday’s final – in addition to some other athletes according to the following rules (from the IOF competition rules):

In the Middle distance final, the competitors placed number 15 and better in each qualification race heat may participate. Further places up to a maximum of 60 (subject to clause b) are selected as follows:
- (a) The best placed runner from Federations which do not have a runner in the first 15 of any heat, considered in the order of their placing in the qualification race heats (If two athletes from the same country have the same place in different heats, the one who is the least time behind the winner of their heat is chosen).
- (b) If two or more runners from different countries are tied for the last qualifying place under (a), all may participate in the final.
- (c) In order to be selected for the final under (a) or (b), an athlete must have been within 100% of the heat winner’s time in their qualification race.

Women – 1

1.	Hanna Lundberg	Sweden	26:27	(+0:00)
2.	Evely Kaasiku	Estonia	28:24	(+1:57)
3.	Cecilie Friberg Klysner	Denmark	28:41	(+2:14)
4.	Aleksandra Hornik	Poland	29:03	(+2:36)
5.	Isia Basset	France	30:34	(+4:07)
6.	Denisa Kosova	Czechia	30:35	(+4:08)
7.	Kirsi Nurmi	Finland	31:21	(+4:54)
8.	Tereza Smelikova	Slovakia	31:27	(+5:00)
9.	Sabine Hauswirth	Switzerland	31:43	(+5:16)
10.	Jasmina Gassner	Austria	32:01	(+5:34)
11.	Andrine Benjaminsen	Norway	32:13	(+5:46)
12.	Dominika Mero	Hungary	32:56	(+6:29)
13.	Eef van Dongen	Netherlands	33:18	(+6:51)
14.	Elza Kuze	Latvia	33:31	(+7:04)
15.	Patricia Nieke	Germany	34:04	(+7:37)
16.	Hinako Inage	Japan	34:52	(+8:25)
17.	Emily Kemp	Canada	35:27	(+9:00)
18.	Amelia Horne	New Zealand	35:35	(+9:08)
19.	Olena Pitirimova	Ukraine	36:33	(+10:06)
20.	Cecilie Andersen	Great Britain	36:57	(+10:30)

Women – 2

1.	Tove Alexandersson	Sweden	24:51	(+0:00)
2.	Natalia Gemperle	Switzerland	27:33	(+2:42)
3.	Marika Teini	Finland	28:05	(+3:14)
4.	Ingrid Lundanes	Norway	28:08	(+3:17)
5.	Tereza Janosikova	Czechia	28:13	(+3:22)
6.	Hanna Wisniewska	Poland	28:25	(+3:34)
7.	Sanna Fast	Sweden	28:49	(+3:58)
8.	Grace Molloy	Great Britain	28:58	(+4:07)
9.	Sandra Grosberga	Latvia	29:53	(+5:02)
10.	Zsofia Sarkozy	Hungary	30:22	(+5:31)
11.	Vanessa Round	Australia	30:24	(+5:33)
12.	Nicoline Friberg Klysner	Denmark	30:54	(+6:03)
13.	Anika Gassner	Austria	32:21	(+7:30)
14.	Iliana Ilieva	Bulgaria	32:35	(+7:44)
15.	Florence Hanauer	France	34:02	(+9:11)
16.	Elif Gokce Avci	Turkiye	34:28	(+9:37)
17.	Birte Friedrichs	Germany	35:18	(+10:27)
18.	Feia Tsyvilska	Ukraine	35:20	(+10:29)
19.	Gabija Razaityte Saunoriene	Lithuania	35:54	(+11:03)
20.	Filipa Rodrigues	Portugal	36:01	(+11:10)

Women – 3

1.	Simona Aebersold	Switzerland	25:27	(+0:00)
2.	Sara Hagstrom	Sweden	27:47	(+2:20)
3.	Megan Carter Davies	Great Britain	27:54	(+2:27)
4.	Venla Harju	Finland	28:08	(+2:41)
5.	Ane Dyrkorn	Norway	29:22	(+3:55)
6.	Lizzie Ingham	New Zealand	30:13	(+4:46)
7.	Cecile Calandry	France	30:40	(+5:13)
8.	Miri Thrane Oedum	Denmark	30:45	(+5:18)
9.	Vendula Horcickova	Czechia	31:25	(+5:58)
10.	Marion Aebi	Switzerland	31:55	(+6:28)
11.	Carina Polzer	Austria	32:07	(+6:40)
12.	Hanna Mueller	Germany	32:17	(+6:50)
13.	Ewa Bernaciak	Poland	32:52	(+7:25)
14.	Olena Babych	Ukraine	33:40	(+8:13)
15.	Leonarda Baltina	Latvia	33:47	(+8:20)
16.	Annika Rihma	Estonia	33:51	(+8:24)
17.	Galina Ribediuc	Moldova Republic of	33:55	(+8:28)
18.	Andreya Dyaksova	Bulgaria	34:42	(+9:15)
19.	Andra Cecilia Anghel	Romania	35:37	(+10:10)
20.	Ana Isabel Toledo Navarro	Spain	35:52	(+10:25)

Men – 1

1.	Joey Hadorn	Switzerland	27:46	(+0:00)
2.	Lucas Basset	France	28:50	(+1:04)
3.	Gustav Bergman	Sweden	29:42	(+1:56)
4.	Marius Thrane Oedum	Denmark	30:18	(+2:32)
5.	Florian Howald	Switzerland	30:26	(+2:40)
6.	Topi Syrjalainen	Finland	30:39	(+2:53)
7.	Jonas Hubacek	Czechia	30:51	(+3:05)
8.	Eskil Kinneberg	Norway	30:53	(+3:07)
9.	Ralph Street	Great Britain	31:15	(+3:29)
10.	Timo Sild	Estonia	31:21	(+3:35)
11.	Algirdas Bartkevicius	Lithuania	31:43	(+3:57)
12.	Henry Mcnulty	Australia	31:44	(+3:58)
13.	Michal Olejnik	Poland	31:47	(+4:01)
14.	Alexandru Blejdea	Romania	32:27	(+4:41)
15.	Mathias Peter	Austria	32:54	(+5:08)
16.	Erik Doehler	Germany	33:09	(+5:23)
17.	Joseph Lynch	New Zealand	33:25	(+5:39)
18.	Nitsan Yasur	Israel	34:06	(+6:20)
19.	Mate Baumholczer	Hungary	34:09	(+6:23)
20.	Boyan Ivandjikov	Bulgaria	34:20	(+6:34)

Men – 2

1.	Albin Ridefelt	Sweden	27:42	(+0:00)
2.	Kasper Harlem Fosser	Norway	28:53	(+1:11)
3.	Anton Johansson	Sweden	29:12	(+1:30)
4.	Jannis Bonek	Austria	29:27	(+1:45)
5.	Rudolfs Zernis	Latvia	29:48	(+2:06)
6.	Olli Ojanaho	Finland	29:49	(+2:07)
7.	Tomas Krivda	Czechia	30:18	(+2:36)
8.	Bartosz Pawlak	Poland	30:56	(+3:14)
9.	Loic Capbern	France	31:13	(+3:31)
10.	Martin Hubmann	Switzerland	31:17	(+3:35)
11.	Bjoern Cederberg	Denmark	31:44	(+4:02)
12.	Bojan Blumenstein	Germany	32:01	(+4:19)
13.	Matt Ogden	New Zealand	32:26	(+4:44)
14.	Vegard Jarvis Westergard	Canada	33:41	(+5:59)
15.	Vilius Aleliunas	Lithuania	33:56	(+6:14)
16.	Patrick Jaffe	Australia	33:58	(+6:16)
17.	Ivan Sirakov	Bulgaria	35:03	(+7:21)
18.	Ilian Angeli	Italy	35:06	(+7:24)
19.	Kristo Heinmann	Estonia	35:20	(+7:38)
20.	Joshua Dudley	Great Britain	35:51	(+8:09)

Men – 3

1.	Matthias Kyburz	Switzerland	28:20	(+0:00)
2.	Gaute Steiwer	Norway	29:47	(+1:27)
3.	Emil Svensk	Sweden	29:55	(+1:35)
4.	Ruslan Glibov	Ukraine	30:00	(+1:40)
5.	Soren Thrane Odum	Denmark	30:12	(+1:52)
6.	Mathieu Perrin	France	30:31	(+2:11)
7.	Uldis Upitis	Latvia	31:42	(+3:22)
8.	Gernot Ymsen	Austria	31:43	(+3:23)
9.	Riccardo Scalet	Italy	32:39	(+4:19)
10.	Tim Robertson	New Zealand	32:55	(+4:35)
11.	Evert Leeuws	Belgium	33:07	(+4:47)
12.	Miika Kirmula	Finland	33:12	(+4:52)
13.	Lauri Sild	Estonia	33:16	(+4:56)
14.	Alastair Thomas	Great Britain	33:20	(+5:00)
15.	Mihaly Ormay	Hungary	33:22	(+5:02)
16.	Anton Salmenkyla	United States	33:40	(+5:20)
17.	Daniel Vandas	Czechia	33:57	(+5:37)
18.	Christian Michelsen	Canada	34:35	(+6:15)
19.	Wojciech Kowalski	Poland	35:21	(+7:01)
20.	Itsuki Ito	Japan	35:29	(+7:09)