Comments on: World Cup Idre 2025 Long: Maps, Results and Analysis

By: Terje Wiig Mathisen

Terje Wiig Mathisen — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:21:11 +0000

I agree: There can be (and was: See the top 3 women around the big hill) many gradual variations in routes even if the main choice stays the same. You can argue that these normally don’t matter much for the exact split time, but there can be large variation in the orienteering difficulty, i.e. do you go high on the second control in women in order to minimize risk, or do you trust your orienteering to be up to handling the nearly flat route around where any mistake can cost up to 20+ minutes?

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:44:10 +0000

Bejmer is mentioned in the article, but Victor Svensk is another runner who managed to run well alone, indeed.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:35:33 +0000

Max-Peter Bejmer is another runner worth mentioning. After a huge miss at the 3rd control he digs himself back into the race, and from there to the finish he’s just beaten by the superior Fosser in a race pretty much done in pure solitude, ending up in 6th place. At control 3 he was in 33rd place…

By: MChub

MChub — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:11:07 +0000

For the routechoices, I’d argue the exact opposite. 1-2 was a classic routechoice leg, as they should be, where the more technical option appears to be slightly faster, but only if executed perfectly. And for the leg across the hill, those going over the hill clearly did not think they were going to lose time if they chose that option, right? Plus, on both legs there were “micro” choices: where do you turn off the path, where do you run on the slope (attack 2 from above, where there are more features on the map, like Bejmer, or save some climb, like Fosser), and how far around the hill do you go? That’s more interesting than just having two or three discrete choices.