[Updated with comment from Gueorgiou] Extremely tight: Four runners were only one control from beating the winner Daniel Hubmann – Lucas Basset, Olle Boström, Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou. Magne Dæhlie had a slow start, but ran faster than Hubmann from the 2nd control to the finish. In this race a ...
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Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) won the men’s class 3 seconds ahead of French surprise Lucas Basset with Olle Bostrom (Sweden) in 3rd another 10 seconds behind. Annika Billstam (Sweden) won the women’s class 50 seconds ahead of Merja Rantanen (Finland) with Emma Johansson (Sweden) in 3rd at 1:18. Both in the ...
Read More »Favourite preview: Who will win WOC Middle 2015?
[LIVE from 13:00 CET. Decision women 15:20. Decision men 17:50 CET] Reigning champions Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Annika Billstam (Sweden) have so far this year not shown the same exceptional performance which gave them the World Champion titles last year, but they are both athletes with a lot of routine ...
Read More »WOC Sprint 2015: Maps and Results
Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the men’s class 2 seconds ahead of Martin Hubmann (Switzerland) with Jerker Lysell (Sweden) in 3rd at 0:05. Maja Alm (Denmark) won the women’s class 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52. See full analysis of the race ...
Read More »Quick GPS & Splits Analysis of WOC 2015 Sprint Women
[Updated with correct illustrations] Maja Alm (Denmark) won 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52. Maja Alm won 16 of 22 legs and did nearly no mistakes. Maja Alm took the lead at the first control. Then Rachel Effeney (leading at ...
Read More »BIG GPS & Splits Analysis of WOC 2015 Sprint Men
Yannick Michiels, Daniel Hubmann, Kris Jones and Martin Hubmann were all only control away from beating the eventual winner Jonas Leandersson. A sprint is however all about keeping concentration from start to finish. The World Championships Sprint in Forres offered courses with few complex routechoice legs – the main challenge ...
Read More »WOC Sprint Relay: What a win by Denmark!
Emma Klingenberg owned the Scottish small town Nairn today on the first leg for Denmark – getting a big gap already after 2 minutes running. From there it was clear that this was Denmark’s day. In the end Norway surprised with silver, Russia took bronze as last year and Switzerland ...
Read More »WOC Sprint Relay: Favourites and Outsiders
[Live from 19:05 CET] Switzerland and Denmark are the two big favourites in today’s Sprint Relay in the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland. Switzerland won the first ever WOC gold medal in Sprint Relay in Trento, Italy last year after a tight fight with Denmark. The decision last year happened on ...
Read More »Quick GPS-analysis of WOC Sprint Qual 2015
Two times wrong routechoice for Yannick Michiels – still clear heat winner. Big mistake for Lena Eliasson. Unstable race by Nadiya Volynska and Hanny Allston – both with high speed. Below is a quick look at some of the legs from the sprint qualified at the World Championships 2015 in ...
Read More »WOC Sprint Qual: Maps and Results
Yannick Michiels (Belgium) impressed with a 17 second win in Men’s Heat 1 – Kris Jones (Great Britain), and Jerker Lysell (Sweden)/Mårten Boström (Finland) won the two other heats in the men’s class. In the women’s class Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) showed that her injury does not bother her much – ...
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