Andrey Lamov and Iuliia Tarasenko
were the big winners of the Mixed Sprint Relay, offering to Russia
the first great achievement of the World Ski Orienteering
Championships WSOC 2015 that started today at Budor, Norway.
Nineteen years later, the World Ski
Orienteering Championships returned to Norway for its 21st edition.
Hamar and Løten hold, until next Sunday, the World's most important
competition in this discipline, welcoming 121 athletes from 23
countries. At the same time, take place the Junior World Ski
Orienteering Championships JWSOC 2015 and the European Youth Ski
Orienteering Championships EYSOC 2015 in which compete 167 athletes,
representing 18 countries.
The Sprint Mixed Relay marked the start
of the Championships, seeing Russia recover the world title four
years later. With a clean race, Andrey Lamov and Iullia Tarasenko
avenged their discouraging fifth place in the recent European
Championships, reaching the victory with a time of 48:51,9. In the
second place, with over 45,1 seconds, stayed Finland (Staffan Tunis
may have break the “curse” of the European Champs, where he
earned four fouth positions), while Sweden, European and World champion in title, took the third place with a time of 50:25,7.
Results
1. Russia (Andrey Lamov and Iuliia
Tarasenko) 48:51,9
2. Finland (Staffan Tunis and Mira
Kaskinen) 49:37,0 (+ 00:45,1)
3. Sweden (Erik Rost and Josefine
Engström) 50:25,7 (+ 01:33,8)
4. Kazakhstan (Mikhail Sorokin and Olga
Novikova) 51:32,9 (+ 02:41,0)
5. Norway (Hans Jørgen Kvale and
Audhild Bakken Rognstad) 51:48,0 (+ 02:56,1)
6. Czech Republic (Skoda Jakub and Hana
Hancikova) 52:18,3 (+ 03:26,4)
The World Championships WSOC 2015 will
continue tomorrow with the final of Sprint. Also tomorrow, we'll have the kick off of the Junior World Championships and European Youth Championships, also with the
dispute of the Sprint titles. Everything to know at
http://www.orientering.no/ski-o-vm2015/.
[Photo: Gro Ellegaard /
plus.google.com]
Joaquim Margarido
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