SKI JWOC 2007 Blog

Sportgastein, Henndorf.- The second competition was much of a swedish-russian match for gold. After the postponing of the middle distance from Tuesday to Wednesday due to the bad weather, a marvelous blue sky, sometimes hard wind and a lot of soft and deep snow was waiting for the 200 competitors. It was also the first race for the EYOC-youngsters. Unfortunately a missing control at the girls’ race caused an annullation. A new competition for the W17 will be held on Thursday.

Now to the results. Swedish girl Eva Svensson, the bronze medallist of the sprint race, could not be beaten in the middle distance. With a 1:30 min lead in front of Olga Trifanova from Russia, and teammate Helene Söderlund she is the new junior world champion in W20. The boys saw Taras Kashchuk from Russia as the winner after his silver medal from monday. He is by now the most successful competitor of the world championships in Salzburg. We will see if he keeps this position. Ove Sätra from Norway, who was second and Sweden’s Thomas Carlsson, the third may be two of more than 50 others, who would like to change this during the next to races. New European Youth Champion in middle distance is Mikhail Utkin from Russia, who was only 15 seconds ahead of Yury Yazykov (BLR) and Yuri Kazakov (RUS).

To secure the chance for having all races in spite of the weather, which should be bad on Thursday and much better on Friday, the organizer ASKÖ HENNDORF ORIENTEERING decided to swap the relay and the long distance.

Pl Stnr Name Jg Nation Time

W 20 (44) 4.9 km 0 Hm 15 P

1 36 Svensson Eva 87 Sweden 29:30,7
2 31 Trifanova Olga 87 Russia 31:04,8
3 43 Söderlund Helene 87 Sweden 31:10,1

M 20 (64) 6.3 km 0 Hm 20 P
1 152 Kashchuk Taras 88 Russia 34:12,0
2 155 Sätra Ove 87 Norway 35:42,3
3 133 Carlsson Thomas 87 Sweden 35:44,5

M 17 (38) 5.7 km 0 Hm 16 P
1 186 Utkin Mikhail 90 Russia 34:20,4
2 206 Yazykov Yury 90 Belorussia 34:35,8
3 180 Kazakov Yuri 90 Russia 34:48,8

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Salzburg, Austria.- The first competition of the SKI JWOC-EYOC 2007 Salzburg, was a very competitive Sprint in Sportgastein. The weather was windy, but with bright sunshine at the start and a very cloudy sky at the end of the race. Many slopes and some “fake” controls in the open area with the gentle hills were the big challenge of the day. The orienteering was more “Foot-O” style, and those athletes, who could switch their mind faster in this direction and controlled their speed, were the winners of the day.

At the Womens’ race Hana Hancikova (CZE) did best, winning with a 4 seconds lead in front of two Swedish girls, Helene Söderlund and Eva Svensson. The mens’ race saw Olli-Markus Taivainen (FIN) as the winner, 7 seconds faster then Taras Kashchuk of Russia, and 12 seconds in front of Johan Edin from Sweden.

On Tuesday the middle distance race will take place in the Sportgastein area.

W 20 (59) 2.7 km 9 P

1 47 Hana Hancikova 88 Czech Republic 12:13
2 29 Helene Söderlund 87 Sweden 12:17
3 54 Eva Svensson 87 Sweden 12:30

M 20 (83) 3.0 km 12 P

1 169 Olli-Markus Taivainen 89 Finland 11:49
2 172 Taras Kashchuk 88 Russia 11:56
3 171 Johan Edin 87 Sweden 12:01

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