EYOC continues with relay Saturday and sprint Sunday.

H18

1 72 Robert Merl AUT Austria 1:00:25 0:00
2 92 Mate Baumholczer HUN Hungary 1:02:52 2:27
3 29 Felix Haller SUI Switzerland 1:02:53 2:28
4 91 Antonio Martinez Pérez ESP Spain 1:03:57 3:32
5 61 Rafal Podzinski POL Poland 1:04:03 3:38
6 62 Daniel Wolf CZE Czech Rep. 1:04:21 3:56

D18

1 250 Frida Lönnberg FIN Finland 53:09 0:00
2 228 Anne Tine Markseth NOR Norway 53:38 0:29
3 262 Maren Haverstad NOR Norway 54:36 1:27
4 270 Lotta Karhola FIN Finland 55:23 2:14
5 220 Daria Maslennikova RUS Russia 56:38 3:29
6 243 Franziska Dörig SUI Switzerland 58:34 5:25

H16

1 143 Filip Hadac CZE Czech Rep. 50:57 0:00
2 184 Piotr Parfianowicz POL Poland 52:20 1:23
3 168 Thor Nørskov DEN Denmark 52:36 1:39
4 111 Volodymyr Selezn`ov UKR Ukraine 53:01 2:04
5 166 Michal Hubácek CZE Czech Rep. 53:20 2:23
6 170 Marton Kazal HUN Hungary 53:40 2:43

D16

1 356 Vendula Horcicková CZE Czech Rep. 42:13 0:00
2 317 Petra Pavlovcová CZE Czech Rep. 42:23 0:10
3 320 Ekaterina Savkina RUS Russia 42:29 0:16
4 337 Nastassia Dzianisava BLR Belarus 42:51 0:38
5 306 Marion Aebi SUI Switzerland 43:31 1:18
6 366 Anja Arbter AUT Austria 44:11 1:58

• Official results EYOC Long
• EYOC 2009 web page

• Map H18
• Map D18/D16/H16

• EYOC online results
• Startlist EYOC Long distance
• Startlist EYOC Long distance sorted by Federation
• EYOC website

Update: Map from the event included below:

Rules may change until Sunday

A suggested set of rules for the Fantasy JWOC is given below. Please add a comment if you have a suggestion for a change in the rules. All suggestions are considered - and if changes are made, the final rules will be posted Sunday evening at 20:00 CET.

• Browse all the JWOC Teams here. Note! A few teams/runners are missing. Will be updated as soon as I have them.
• Set up your team here. Note! A few teams/runners are missing. Will be updated as soon as I have them. Note also that the rules for calculation of income may change until Sunday evening at 20:00 CET.
• JWOC 2009 webpage
• JWOC Training preview at Worldofo.com
• JWOC preview at Ultimate Orienteering

The Fantasy JWOC is a ‘for-fun’ competition set up quickly. In addition, the names for JWOC runners are not always written the same way, so except to see some errors in point calculations etc. Take it as it is - and enjoy!

Suggested Fantasy JWOC Rules

Choose a Team consisting of 10 runners (you can choose arbitrary number of men/women) by dragging runners from the left column to the right column. You may have more than 10 runners in the right column, but only the 10 first count as your team and will give you income.

Income is calculated in the following way:

• For each JWOC race, your income is calculated based on the income of the 10 runners in your team. The income a runner gives you is calculated using the following formulas (note! virtual money:) :
  1. The best runner in each race earns 1.000.000 Euros for his managers, second position gets 800.000 Euros, third position 600.000 Euros, 4. place -> 500.000 Euros, 5. place -> 450.000 Euros, 6. place -> 400.000 Euros, 7. place -> 370.000 Euros, 8. place -> 350.000 Euros, 9. place -> 330.000 Euros, 10. place -> 310.000 Euros, 11. place -> 300.000 Euros, 12. place -> 290.000 Euros, 13. place -> 280.000 Euros …, 40. place -> 10.000 Euros.
  2. If two runners share a position, both earn the same sum
  3. All Teams which have a certain runner in their Team, will share the income this runner generates. I.e., if 100 Teams would have Albin Ridefelt in the team and Albin Ridefelt would win JWOC Sprint - each manager would get 1.000.000 Euros / 100 = 10.000 Euros.
• Bonus: In each JWOC race, you get a bonus of 50% of the income for the runner who is on the top of your team-list. Another 25% bonus for the runner on second place on your team-list, and yet another 10% bonus for the runner who is number three on your team-list
• All JWOC races count in the total figure
• You may drag as many runners over to your team in the right column as you want, but only the 10 topmost runners count in your sum
• You can change which runners are in your team between each race
• Last chance to change your team ahead of each JWOC race is given in the overview table here.
• Note! This is a very experimental ‘for-fun’ service, and errors may (and will) occur.
• You may change your team ahead of each competition.
• Income calculation will be done as soon as possible after each competition (when official results are available) - but there might be delays

Official Training week: Timetable

Below you find the timetable for the official training week for the Junior World Orienteering Championship 2009. Expect to find many of the training maps on omaps.worldofo.com the coming days - see some of the maps in the links at the bottom of this page.

Updated 1/7/09: See also map from middle training via Nz Squad JWOC blog.

JWOC Programme

See the complete programme here.

Several teams arrived

Several teams have already arrived in Italy - and some of the teams also have their own blogs - expect to find them on World of O from the coming weekend. The New Zealand JWOC Squad reports:

• - We encountered the other teams for the first time today, Russa, Japan, South Africa and Hong Kong were all out on the map training at the same time as us. We expect to see heaps more of the other countries as the week progresses, as Primiero isn’t a very big place! JWOC is being promoted much more than last year in Sweden. There are posters and o flags up in shops all over town and most of the lamp posts have JWOC 2009 flags hanging from them.

Read more on the NZ JWOC Squad 2009 blog.

Live Blog: Help needed

World of O is planning to cooperate with the JWOC organizers to cover the Sprint, Middle and Long finals with a Live Blog as for Jukola/10Mila/NOC (pending details on how the live results etc. will be from the competitions - but first info seem promising). Help from World of O readers is appreciated as always! If somebody wants to be in on the team as a panelist and/or moderators, please send an email to jan@kocbach.net. Comments and pictures from spectators present in Italy via Wifi/mobile phone would be great - we can put you on a “always allow” list - and maybe even try to get wifi-access via the organizers if possible.

Links to maps and stories

Below you find a collection of some maps and stories from JWOC preparations:

• New Zealand JWOC Squad report from their arrival in Primiero - including training map
• Anton Tynong (SWE) reports from Italy on his blog (Swedish language)
• The Australian JWOC Team arrived in Italy
• Preview of JWOC favourites on Ultimate Orienteering
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training I
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training II
• Albin Ridefelt - map from training III
• Anton Tynong - map from training I
• Anton Tynong - map from training II
• Anton Tynong - map from training III
• NZ team training in Asiago

In the overall Fantasy World Cup, the Scary Team increased its lead to 19 points - with Bushmen in second spot.

Jansson dropped the race due to knee problems, whereas Gueorgiou quit the race at the 21st control as can be seen on the GPSseuranta Tracking from the event.

The World Cup - and therefore also the Fantasy World Cup - now takes a break until the World Orienteering Championships in Hungary in August. The next three World Cup races are the WOC Middle distance on August 19th, the WOC sprint distance on August 20th and the Long distance on August 23rd.

Dæhlie Team - Best in World Cup race 4

The Dæhli Team with manager Magne Dæhli won the 4th round of the Fantasy World Cup with the following team:

1.   Minna Kauppi - 150.00	2.   Marianne Andersen - 100.00	3.   Daniel Hubmann - 44.00
4.   Emil Wingstedt - 60.00	5.   Helena Jansson - 0.00	6.   Carl Waaler Kaas - 45.00
7.   Simone Niggli - 60.00	8.   Martin Johansson - 100.00	9.   Peter Öberg - 50.00
10.   Matthias Merz - 31.00

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 4
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 4

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular - with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work - and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Fight against Kauppi

Kauppi is the favourite among the women, but she will still have to fight hard for the victory. Marianne Andersen starts only 47 seconds behind - and with a tough long distance course in terrain similar to Marianne Andersens home terrain, Kauppi will not have an easy task. Simone Niggli in fourth position - 2:16 behind Kauppi - is also very interested in showing that she is really back in the top. The Swedish girls Helena Jansson and Emma Johansson will also be part of the fight for the victory.

1. Kauppi,Minna Finland 14:30:00
2. Andersen,Marianne Norway 14:30:47
3. Jansson,Helena Sweden 14:31:58
4. Niggli,Simone Switzerland 14:32:16
5. Johansson,Emma Sweden 14:32:38
6. Holmström,Bodil Finland 14:32:44

Hubmann again?

Hubmann is the favourite among the Fantasy World Cup managers after his impressing last leg legs for Kristiansand at Jukola and 10Mila. Will the Swiss runner be the best in a fight man against man in the tough Norwegian terrain as well? Mattias Merz is another Swiss runner who has shown impressive results in similar fights earlier - starting 1:37 behind. However, Peter Öberg, Carl Waaler Kaas and Anders Nordberg who are the first starters will have to be counted among the very big favourites. And don’t forget Thierry Guergiou - who really wants to get his revenge after several for him disappointing performances this season.

1. Öberg,Peter Sweden 15:00:00
2. Kaas,Carl Waaler Norway 15:00:00
3. Nordberg,Anders Norway 15:00:21
4. Wingstedt,Emil Sweden 15:00:38
5. Gueorgiou,Thierry France 15:00:43
6. Andersson,David Sweden 15:01:09
7. Föhr,Tero Finland 15:01:16
8. Johansson,Martin Sweden 15:01:26
9. Hubmann,Daniel Switzerland 15:01:26
10. Adamski,Phillippe France 15:01:27
11. Merz,Matthias Switzerland 15:01:37
12. Renard,Damien France 15:02:05

Follow the race live

Use the following possibilites to follow the race live

• Startlist men and startlist women
• Online results
• Live webTV for international and norwegian viewers
• Live GPS Tracking
• Arena speaker (combination of arena speaker and webTV might be a good option for international viewers who do not understand Norwegian)

Manager favourites

Below you see the favourites of the managers in the WoO Fantasy World Cup ahead of the chasing start.

1. Minna Kauppi (194 teams)
   

2. Daniel Hubmann (193 teams)
   
3. Thierry Gueorgiou (191 teams)
   
4. Simone Niggli (157 teams)
   
5. Peter Öberg (147 teams)
6. Helena Jansson (147 teams)
   
7. Matthias Merz (137 teams)
   
8. Marianne Andersen (120 teams)
   
9. Anders Nordberg (114 teams)
   
10. Emil Wingstedt (94 teams)
    

Update June 27th 1400! Heidi Bagstevold got 27 points on WC 3. competition, but in Fantasy World Cup her points was 0.0. This will be fixed when results of WC 4 are published monday morning.

Note! Results are preliminary - please report any errors in the calculations in a comment below.

World Cup race number 4

The next race in the World Cup is already tomorrow - the deadline for setting up your team is at 14:00 CET. Log in to set up your team here. Remember that tomorrows race is a chasing start - so take a good look at todays results (or here) before setting up your team. Note! Points for the Fantasy World Cup are as always calculated according to the World Cup point rules - i.e. the total time (and not the competition time for race 4 alone) is what counts.

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings (preliminary)
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 3 (preliminary)
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1 (updated!)

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular - with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work - and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Top 10 after World Cup Race 3

Tricky Norwegian terrain

The terrain north of Oslo proved to be tricky - many of the top runners having problems on the way. Notably, both Thierry Gueorgiou and Daniel Hubmann made several mistakes, finishing 5th and 8th respectively. Below you see the routechoices (from GPS track of GPSseuranta) of Carl Waaler Kaas and Peter Öberg. You find GPS tracks of all the top runners at the GPSseuranta page.

For a nice coverage of the races as they developed, see this article at Orienteering.is for the men, and this article at Orienteering.is for the women.

Results Men

1 Öberg, Peter Sweden 35:31
1 Waaler Kaas, Carl Norway 35:31
3 Nordberg, Anders Norway 35:52
4 Wingstedt, Emil Sweden 36:09
5 Gueorgiou, Thierry France 36:14
6 Andersson, David Sweden 36:40
7 Föhr, Tero Finland 36:47
8 Johansson, Martin Sweden 36:57
8 Hubmann, Daniel Switzerland 36:57
10 Adamski, Phillippe France 36:58

Results Women

1 Kauppi, Minna Finland 34:34
2 Andersen, Marianne Norway 35:21
3 Jansson, Helena Sweden 36:32
4 Niggli, Simone Switzerland 36:50
5 Johansson, Emma Sweden 37:12
6 Holmström, Bodil Finland 37:18
7 Sundberg, Karoliina Finland 38:02
8 Fasting, Mari Norway 38:11
9 Lindeqvist, Katri Finland 38:29
10 Jurenikova, Eva Czech Rep. 39:24

• Online results available here
• Full results will be available here

World of O Runners will be updated with pictures of most runners after the weekend.

On Friday the races takes place from 13.30 CET to 17.00 CET, and Saturday’s race is held between 14.30 CET and 17.00 CET. See more information in the article about the Fantasy World Cup.

Follow the race live

Use the following possibilites to follow the race live

• Startlist men and startlist women
• Online results
• Live webTV for international and norwegian viewers
• Live GPS Tracking
• Arena speaker (combination of arena speaker and webTV might be a good option for international viewers who do not understand Norwegian)

24 nations

Runners from 24 nations will participate in the World Cup round. This will be the biggest TV show from Norwegian Orienteering yet, with 7 cameras and direct web-TV broadcast at nrksport.no including GPS-Tracking of 50 runners (20 women and 30 men).

Some useful links:

• GPSseuranta page for World Cup races 3 and 4
• O-festivalen homepage (English version) - Links to webTV coverage will be given here
• Bulletin Four - O-Festivalen World Cup

World Cup Race information

Expect startlists to appear during Thursday as deadline for entering names of runners is Thursday at 12:00 CET.

• First start on Friday’s Middle distance is 13:31 CET for women and 13:42 CET for men according to Bulletin 4. For the Fantasy World Cup, Team registration will be open until Friday June 26th at 12:00 CET.
• For Saturdays Chasing start Long distance first start is 14:30 CET for women and 15:00 CET for men. For the Fantasy World Cup, Team registration will be open until Saturday June 27th at 14:00 CET

Runners from 24 nations will participate in the World Cup round. This will be the biggest TV show from Norwegian Orienteering yet, with 7 cameras and direct web-TV broadcast at nrksport.no including GPS-Tracking of 50 runners.

Some useful links:

• Startlist World Cup Middle Men
• Startlist World Cup Middle Women
• O-festivalen homepage (English version)
• Bulletin Four - O-Festivalen World Cup

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1

Top 10 after World Cup Race 2

Rules

Choose a Team consisting of 10 runners (you can choose arbitrary number of men/women).

Points are calculated in the following way:

• For each World Cup race, your score is calculated as the World Cup points of the 10 runners in your team
• Bonus: In each World Cup race, you get a bonus of 50% of the points for the runner who is on the top of your team-list. Another 25% bonus for the runner on second place on your team-list, and yet another 10% bonus for the runner who is number three on your team-list
• Your 7 best total sums of the 9 World Cup races count in the total figure
• You may drag as many runners over to your team in the right column as you want, but only the 10 topmost runners count in your sum
• You can change which runners are in your team between each race
• Last chance to change your team ahead of each World Cup race is given in the overview table here.
• Calculation of points will be done after each World Cup round - but you may change your team ahead of each competition.

See the complete rules - and register your Team here!.

Rather small

- The influence-benefits for both races and all classes seems to be rather small, even if there were lots of meetings in the forest. I assume that it wasn’t the separation techniques alone but a combination of terrains, difficulty, long legs and separation, says Swiss Martin Lerjen who has made the analysis. Lerjen is the man who made a very interesting analysis of the packs in the European Champs last year, when there was lots of discussion about grouping.

- A lot of mistakes were made in packs, so it might well be that packs were no good this time, Lerjen comments. Lerjen does not say anything specific about the NOC middle distance races of Simone Niggli (10th place) or Emma Johansson (12th place), but the packfigures from NOC middle give Niggli and Johansson 1st and 2nd best “calculated running time without pack influence”, respectively. This is of course only a scientific calculation with no real significance - and we all know that an important part of the task for an orienteer is to manage to find the controls without being influenced by other runners.

Dizzy chickens

Still, it is interesting to put this into the context of what Linnea Gustafsson writes in her NOC Blog:

• - Simone Niggli caught me already at the third control, and I thought that I could just blindly trust her orienteering. But no - it didn’t help at all, and instead we made mistakes together. […] a large group of runners joined us, and we run as a group of dizzy chickens around Simone, and all ran in the wrong direction on a long leg (See GPS tracking screenshot above). Embarrassing for us and certainly annoying for Simone! At least I did a good finish, and finished first in our group.

Of course Niggli should have tackled the pack of other runners - as this is part of the orienteering sport - but still very interesting to get some insight into what happened in the forest.

Probably not

So - what is my answer to the question I posed at the start of this article? Probably not. From the GPS tracking you can observe that Niggli makes small mistakes all the way - also already at the 3rd control. For the big mistake to the 14th control, it seems that she is in command when things start going wrong. Still, all the runners around her may have influenced her concentration a lot - but to handle that is part of the game…

Going further on the packfigures from NOC middle, we see that Emma Johansson has the second best “calculated running time without pack influence”. However, when again looking at the GPS tracking (see screenshot below), we see that Emma Johansson was very much in command when making her mistakes - the other runners being at least 15-20 meters behind here. However, having other runners behind you may influence you to run faster than you should - and not concentrate enough on the orienteering…

You can find a lot more information in the packfigures from NOC middle and long below combined with the GPS tracking. Be warned, though, that these figures may seem quite confusing at first sight - and it may take some work to understand all the details in the figures.

• Packfigures from NOC middle distance
• Packfigures from NOC long distance
• Packfigures explained - and another background article
• GPS Tracking NOC

Note that packfigures are generally more useful for long distance competitions than for middle distance competitions, and that the large number of packs in NOC middle in particular makes it necessary to do more manual analysis of the packfigure.

Navigate independently

Treat this type of figures with care regarding individual runners - and take a look at the GPS tracking to see if your suspicions about groups are valid. The GPS tracking of all runners - as done at the Nordic Championships - actually makes it feasible for the IOF to some time in the future follow up the “sleeping” IOF Fair Play rule 26.2, stating “In an individual interval start race, competitors shall navigate and run through the terrain independently”. Packfigures are very useful in finding potential cases, but tracking is needed to make a detailed analysis for each case.

A success

Compared to several previous championships, this years NOC was a success in the respect that the runners getting the top positions did not gain a lot by running in packs. As Lerjen states, this was only partly due to the forking system (which in my opinion works a lot better than the short butterflies with equal length we have seen a lot of the last years). More important is terrain, difficulty and a very wise use of long legs with different route choice alternatives (even in the “butterfly”).

For international championships in so-called continental terrain with better visibility in the forest and less route choice alternatives, it is a lot more difficult to cope with the grouping issue than in the terrain used in the Nordic Championships. If rule 26.2 should still be part of the IOF competition rules, imposed GPS tracking on all runners in international championships - along with some amendment to the IOF Fair Play rule 26.2 - might be something to work towards to ensure fair results.

Already early on the first leg KOK had some trouble (see above), but Jon Duncan run fast - and was soon in the lead group again. Later on the leg, a group of runners had trouble finding the 9th control (where was the compass?). Both screenshots are from the GPSseuranta webservice.

• GPSseuranta Jukola and Venla Tracking
• Map from last leg of Jukola with routes of Hubmann, Gueorgiou and Wingstedt (also from GPSseuranta)

1. Kristiansand OK NOR 8:02:43
2. Kalevan Rasti FIN +0.23
3. Halden SK NOR +3:04

• Final results

The ones keeping awake through all the night - following the WoO/UO LiveBlog - got a fantastic experience. We followed the excitement in the forest north of Mikkeli step by step - below you get some excerpts from the last leg. All images are screenshots from the Jukola web-TV service.

Daniel Hubmann - Kristiansand OK (winner)

- I felt really strong, and also in the forest I made no mistake. I had one difficult situation where I lost contact with Thierry, but then I got contact with him again.

- I knew that the last foour controls were more or less running, so I was looking forward to this. I had a good feeling.

Thierry Gueorgiou - Kalevan Rasti

- I had a good chance in the middle of the race, but then I did a big mistake. The last kilometers I was already quite a lot behind, and I had already lost.

- I felt quite well during the race, but I couldn’t use the course to get away from Daniel because we had the same forking. Thus Daniel took the victory in the end.

The decisive moments of the last leg

• From the start, Halden with Emil Wingstedt had a lead of more than 3 minutes. KOK (Daniel Hubmann) and Kalevan Rasti (Thierry Gueorgiou) crept closer meter by meter already from the start due to higher running speed. If all would run without mistakes - it looked like Emil would just manage to take the win.
  

• Some tricky controls with forking - but Wingstedt keeps his head cool and the lead.
  

• Then a small mistake from Wingstedt - and the lead goes down to two minutes.
  

• Then a big mistake by Halden - the lead going down to one minute
  

• Hubmann and Gueorgiou continue running with a slightly higher speed than Wingstedt - waiting for another mistake. Now down to less than a minute.
  
  

• Then a long leg for which Wingstedt chooses to go left along roads - whereas Hubmann and Gueorgiou go direct. This proved to be a decisive moment ….
  

• Suddenly they were all three together. And then Hubmann made a small mistake, and Gueorgiou was alone in the lead.
  

• Gueorgiou kept the lead for one control only. I know a man who won’t forget the 21st control in the 2009 Jukola for a year - at least…
  

• They continue together all three, but Wingstedt can’t keep up the speed. Soon they are only two together - and based on Gueorgiou’s comments after the race, he was not on top of the situation. He takes another route than Hubmann to the third last control - looses 13 second - an Hubmann never gives those seconds back….
  

Below you can relive all of the excitement - all the way from the start of the Venla relay - until the end of the Jukola relay early this morning. Enjoy! And join us here at World of O for the next LiveBlog from a big orienteering event - you won’t regret it!

Some statistics:

• A total of 3025 unique readers pressed “watch now” during the LiveBlog
• 786 writers comments were published - 16 Twitter comments were published (provided by Kristiansand OK with runners comments right after the race)
• 168 images shown. 30 polls shown. 1 video played.

Standings

• Fantasy World Cup overall standings
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 2
• Team results Fantasy World Cup race 1 (updated!)

Top 10 after World Cup Race 2 (updated)

Want to be a sponsor?

The WoO Fantasy World Cup has proven to be very popular - with more than 200 Teams participating. The best managers deserve a price for their hard work - and thus I’m now looking for sponsors who want to sponsor the WoO Fantasy World Cup with some fine prizes for the best managers. Want to get your company visibility with the Fantasy World Cup? Drop me a message at Jan@Kocbach.net.

Again we will do our best to provide you with a great experience - and give you updates on everything happening. We are trying to team up with some of the top teams to get reports during both Venla and Jukola relays directly from Finland - please help us if you’ve got the connections. For Jukola the LiveBlog is organized together with Ultimate Orienteering ; we’ll be live every minute during the Venla and Jukola relays - and partly live from now until the Venla relay starts.

Mobile version

Here you find the mobile version of the Jukola LiveBlog (bookmark now). Best viewed using Opera Mini which works for most mobile phones, and also keeps down cost by compressing pages.

Full Web version