With the second day competition in Miskolc-Csanyik the 6th World Trail Orienteering Championships were finished. In the paralympic category no change took place: Swedish Lennart Wahlgren kept lead and became world champion, silver goes to Zdenko Horjan (Croatia), bronze to Ola Jansson (Sweden). The order of first three was the same on day 1, on day 2, and of course overall too.

Unlike in open category: Vilaliy Kirichenko representing Ukraine won day 2, and came up from eighth to top position while Lauri Kontkanen from Finland did the same from ninth to second place. The only fix point was Hauro Kimura (Japan) keeping the bronze. The team competition (adding results of two paralympics and two open) was won by Ukraine, second place for Sweden, third place for Czech Republic.

An interesting incident: Hungarian Fruzsina Bíró had to miss day 2, because she gave birth to her daughter on the morning of the competition.

On Thursday the first day competition of World Trail Orienteering Championships took place in Bánkút. The course included 26 control points (4 of them timing control). In the paralympic category Lennart Wahlgren (Sweden) is in first place, followed by Zdenko Horjan from Croatia and team-mate Ola Jansson. In open category Masayuri Tashiko (Japan) leads ahead of Piotr Zielczynski from Poland and Joseph Brautigam (USA). The second day competition start on Satruday at 10 p.m. in Miskolc in the arena of WOC sprint.

WTOC2009 Bulletin 3 revised was published. Can be found here. The final paragraph in the Section 10 has been deleted.

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