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Thursday, 20 August 2009 16:21 |
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 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys, first runner of men left start right now, so the fight for the medals of sprint is already going on. Men's course 3.150 m / 125 m / 22 cp., expected winning time 15 minutes. Last runner start at 17:06, so we will have a new world champion at 17:21.
Last runners of men:
38 Wingstedt Emil SWE 16:58
39 Nikolov Kiril BUL 16:59
40 Hubmann Daniel SUI 17:00
41 Ushkvarok Pavlo UKR 17:01
42 Dlabaja Tomás CZE 17:02
43 Mueller Matthias SUI 17:03
44 Huovila Jarkko FIN 17:04
45 Hertner Fabian SUI 17:05
46 Lundanes Olav NOR 17:06 Women will begin after the men's best is known, Őry Eszter will start at 17:30. Their course is 2.620 m / 105 m / 18 cp., expected winning time 14 minutes. The lest start time is 18:14, so we will know the name of the winner around 18:28. Last part of startlist:
87 Soes Signe DEN 18:06
88 Hauswirth Sabine SUI 18:07
89 Rihma Annika EST 18:08
90 Jureníková Eva CZE 18:09
91 Dodin Céline FRA 18:10
92 Niggli Simone SUI 18:11
93 Egseth Elise NOR 18:12
94 Jansson Helena SWE 18:13
95 Kauppi Minna FIN 18:14 The weather is still sunny, after the heat at noon, now temperature is about 30 degrees. |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:57 |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:00 |
 Now we know all the names starting in final. In women's qualification the biggest surprise was that Hanny Allston (former world champion) couldn't get into final. Altogether 13 runners missed control, nine of them started in heat 1. Three runners in the final from China.
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1. Elise Egseth
2. Eva Jureníková
3. Signe Soes
4. Ines Brodmann
5. Olga Sluta
6. Shuangyan Hao
7. Sarah Rollins
8. Karin Schmalfeld
9. Galina Vinogradova
10. Veronica Minoiu
11. Inga Dambe
12. Anni-Maija Fincke
13. Karolina Höjsgaard
14. Samantha Saeger
15. Őry Eszter | W2
1. Helena Jansson
2. Céline Dodin
3. Sabine Hauswirth
4. Esther Gil
5. Irina Nyberg
6. Aija Skrastina
7. Mingyue Zhu
8. Karolina Sundberg
9. Kathryn Ewels
10. Nataliya Dimitrova
11. Helen Bridle
12. Ingunn Weltzien
13. Nicole Scalet
14. Jana Macinská
15. Monika Topinková | W3
1. Minna Kauppi
2. Simone Niggli
3. Pippa Whitehouse
4. Annika Rihma
5. Anne-Margrethe Hausken
6. Linnea Gustafsson
7. Martina Rákayová
8. Maja Alm
9. Martina Doékalová
9. Alia Sitdikova
11. Ji Li
12. Ursula Kadan
13. Hanna Wisniewska
14. Fanni Gyurkó
15. Ona Rafols |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:15 |
 The qualification in men's sprint has just finished, so we know who will be those 46 runners fighting in the final. Swiss runners are still really strong. Surprising fail of Dmitry Tsvetkov, Carl Waaler Kaas and Yuriy Omelchenko (all missing control point). Three runners qualified from Poland and Lithuania; two from Latvia, Belarus and New Zealand.
| | Runners who qualified are the following ones: | M1
1. Matthias Mueller
2. Pavlo Ushkvarok
3. Emil Wingstedt
4. Oystein Kvaal Osterbo
5. Wojciech Dwojak
5. Simonas Krepsta
7. Chris Forne
8. Lukás Barták
9. Claus Hallingdal Bloch
10. Sander Vaher
11. Janis Krumins
12. Tuomas Tervo
13. András Szabó
14. Antonio Martinez
15. Jan Mrázek | M2
1. Fabian Hertner
2. Tomás Dlabaja
3. Kiril Nikolov
4. Gernot Kerschbaumer
5. Ross Morrison
5. Mikkel Lund
7. Graham Gristwood
7. Andrey Khramov
9. Petteri Muukkonen
10. Ionut Zinca
11. Mattias Millinger
12. Kamil Wlodarczyk
13. Aliaksei Aleksiayonak
14. Martins Sirmais
15. Jonas Vytautas Gvildys
15. Tiago Romao | M3
1. Olav Lundanes
2. Jarkko Huovila
3. Daniel Hubmann
4. Klaus Schgaguler
5. Wojciech Kowalski
6. Zsolt Lenkei
7. Aleliunas Vilius
8. Damien Renard
9. Vojtech Král
10. Valentin Novikov
11. Patrick Goeres
12. Yury Tambasov
13. Martin Johansson
14. Scott Fraser
15. Martin Binder |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 09:00 |
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 At this moment Crane Matthew, Davies Byrn and Puusepp Markus - first three runners of men's sprint qualification started, so the competition is on the way.
Schedule for today: 9:00-9:37 men's start, so we will have results before 10:00, when women's start begins, which will last until 10:28, so we will know the names of all qualified runners around quarter to eleven. Weather seems perfect: sunny, no clouds, a little wind, top temperature forecasted 30-32 degrees. Courses: 2.880-2.930 m / 125 m / 19-20 cp. for men, 2.540-2.590 m / 115 m / 17 cp. for women, both with 14 minutes expected winning time. Rules are same like on previoues qualifications: 15 best runner of each heat gets into final. The terrain is at 220-300 meters a.s.l., gently steep, 80% forest + 20% park, runnability and visibility mostly (80%) good, developed network of paths and tracks, mostly unpaved. Some interesting fights from the startlists (starting in the same minute): Simone Niggli-Sarah Rollins, Gyurkó Fanni-Helena Jansson, Fabian Hertner-Jurij Omelcsenko, Lukás Barták-Dmitrij Cvetkov. |
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:33 |
 Dana Brožková: "I am very surprised with this gold medal, because this is the first time I ran middle distance in world championships. In the whole year I didn't feel very well. I did everything as usual, but my shape was not good. I started to feel good only in the last 14 days, my training were getting better and better. On the start line today I felt, if I do a very good race, I can be in top 6. The course was very challenging, especially the beginning, I had to concentrate. This was a good start on WOC, I will start in relay and long distance too."
|  Marianne Andersen: "I made a small mistake (around 30 seconds), but otherwise I am really satisfied with my competition today. I was really close to gold, closer than any time before, I think I go on the right way. It would have been fantastic to win, but silver is not the worst thing that can happen. The course was about as I expected, I really liked it, it was challenging, the beginning was quite tricky. I'll try to do my best in long distance final too."
|  Simone Niggli: "I feel great. This bronze medal is just like a gold for me, because I know I'm back in business. I missed on control no. 4. about two minutes, I thought Marianne will catch me, but then I had a good run, physically on the top. I didn't expect to be among the best three, so I am surprised and happy. Before WOC I thought, I will have best chances in long distance, because there are just a few girls who can keep the speed for such a long time. So now I'm really happy that I have a medal already today. Now I have to recover for short distance, I'm trained and prepaired for it and we will meet the girls tomorrow."
|  Thierry Gueorgiou: "This spring have been very difficult for me, not because I was struggling with trainings, trainings went very well, but in competitions I never managed to win. You have to win sometimes to get the good level of self-confidence. On the last World Cup in Norway it was awful. After that I decided to do very special preparation, and I went for three weeks to high altitude. I was training alone and I got back self-confidence. At the start I wasn't sure if I can do it, because it is getting more and more difficult, others are better and better in middle distance. But I knew that it was all about me, and it's very important to know at the start of the race, that if you compete well, you can do it. The terrain was not special for us, because we had a very good old map, so we knew what to expect. That's what I don't like in today's orienteering, that there are less and less surprises. If I compare this victory to the old ones, I have to say, every gold has its own story. This one I'll remember, because I had difficulties during the year, but I managed to win again. My favourite discipline is still middle, but I decided to win a gold in long in the next three years, so now I would like to focus on it. I don't plan to start in short in the future, because I won a title in short, and I feel I was lucky, and I couldn't win again."
|  Daniel Hubmann: "Today I'm happy with the silver medal, because this is my fisrt medal in middle distance. I'm also very happy with my performance today, right now I don't know where I lost this half minute to Thierry, so I'm happy. I wouldn't say, he's unbeatable, but today he was really strong again. It was more or less what we expected, but I think the runnability was not as good as we expected after some trainings in this area. The performance of the team (2nd, 3rd and 4th place) is amazing, we were well prepaired. It's always a challenge to make a good run, and today all of us did it, and now I'm really happy with the boys' performance. I will try to give my best tomorrow and hopefully fight for medals."
|  Matthias Merz: "It's very nice. It was my goal to get a medal, that's what I achieved today with an almost clear race. I made small mistakes, but I can't say now how big they were. This terrain is similar to some terrains at home, and we had a good preparation. We were in a training camp on altitude on high level one month ago, and it was good for everyone, so the whole team looks in a good shape. Now it was a good start for this week, everybody's happy, the team spirit is good and all runners - including the ones, who hasn't started yet - are very motivated. I won't run tomorrow on short, so I take a rest for the relay."
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:25 |
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 Thierry Gueorgiou won world championship title in middle distance sixth time in histroy and third time in a row. He had best split time at each radio control, so there were no doubt about his victory. Daniel Hubmann tried everything to break the serie of the French, but the half minutes gap between them - which occured in the first part of the course - remained until finish line. Bronze medal went to Matthias Merz, who was better than Hubmann at the first radio control, but then half minutes gap was fixed between them. Matthias Mueller became fourth and Francoise Gonon fifth, so only two nations' runners shared the five best position. David Andersson on the sixth place was the best Scandinavian runner.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:13 |
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 Dana Brožková of Czech Republic won in an exciting fight the middle distance final. In the best positions - as it was expected - we can find runners from the last part of the startlist. Brožková caught Helena Jansson and her sister, Radka (starting 2 and 4 minutes before her). Until that point she was already the fastest, but together they had such a high speed, that opponents couldn't keep. On spectators' control Minna Kauppi was 1'22", Simone Niggli 0'49" behind her. Marianne Andersen (starting second last) was the closest one with 24 seconds. She tried to get closer in the last loop, but on the last control she was still 10 seconds behind and it remained until the finish line. The fight for bronze was won by Simone Niggli, so title holder Minna Kauppi became forth, followed by Merja Rantanen and Helena Jansson.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:30 |
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 At 9:30 first runner of the first final (Iliana Shandurkova from Bulgaria) left start. The last woman starts at 10:58, so the name of the first world champion of this year will be discovered around half past eleven.
Just to remember the end of the startlist here:
86 Soes Signe DEN 10:40
87 Rantanen Merja FIN 10:42
88 Koenig-Salmi Vroni SUI 10:44
89 Brožková Radka CZE 10:46
90 Jansson Helena SWE 10:48
91 Brožková Dana CZE 10:50
92 Kauppi Minna FIN 10:52
93 Niggli Simone SUI 10:54
94 Andersen Marianne NOR 10:56
95 Mueller Lea SUI 10:58
Men's startlist begins with Austrian Wolfgang Siegert at 11:15, and goes along until 12:43, so the champion will be named around quarter past one.
The last runners:
37 Mihalkin Dmitry BLR 12:27
38 Zinca Ionut ROM 12:29
39 Gueorgiou Thierry FRA 12:31
40 Mueller Matthias SUI 12:33
41 Föhr Tero FIN 12:35
42 Hubmann Daniel SUI 12:37
43 Ushkvarok Pavlo UKR 12:39
44 Merz Matthias SUI 12:41
45 Novikov Valentin RUS 12:43 The weather is sunny with some clouds, but no rain is forecasted. Temperature will be 20-25 degrees during the day, so it's an ideal weather for orienteering. Courses: 5.340 m / 235 m / 22 ep. for women, 6.570 m / 275 m / 25 ep. for mwn, both with 35 minutes expected winning time. The terrain is between 750-925 ms a.s.l. with mostly steep climbs, vegetation is mixed: green and yellow areas both occur, there are many point features, rocks and roads. |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:01 |
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 The Opening Ceremony of 26th World Orienteering Championships and 6th World Trail Orienteering Championships took place in the hall of University of Miskolc. After the marching in of the teams Dr. Gyula Patkó, president of the university welcomed the participants. Sándor Káli, mayor of Miskolc remembered the great orienteering events hosted by the town and wished everybody a pleasantful stay for this week. Åke Jacobson, president of the IOF greeted the teams on behalf of the organization and wished a successful competition to runners and organizers too. Hanny Allston and Gábor Domonyik took an oath in the name of the competitors and finally Åke Jacobson opened officially the event. The ceremony was accompanied by the show of Animus Tinkler Band, Szinva-völgyi Folk Dance Group and Choire of Fráter György Secondary School.
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