Started today, in an official way,
the World Masters MTB Orienteering Championships 2015. Along the
streets and sidewalks of Penha Garcia, athletes from 21 countries
competed for the world titles in Sprint, showing that the art of
biking is for every age. Among the many athletes climbing to the
podium, a special word to the Portuguese Susana Pontes, silver
medallist in W40 class, and to Monica Aguilera, offering to Spain the
first gold medal ever in an event of this level.
Sharing the attentions with this major
event which is the European MTB Orienteering Championships 2015, the
World Masters 2015 took today its first “serious” competition.
For the Sprint race titles at Penha Garcia, in the municipality of
Idanha-a-Nova, lined up in the start a total of 146 athletes spread
over 15 competition classes, between 40 and 79 years old.
Reviewing the Hall of Fame of this
particular competition, we can find here the Danish Lasse Brun
Pedersen, World Champion in Sprint (2008 and 2009) or the Swiss Beat
Oklé, mainstay of Swiss MTB Orienteering since the first World
Championships (Fontainebleau, 2002), as the Finnish Risto Orpana, the
British Charlie Somers-Cocks or the German Harald Maennel, constant
presences on the highest steps of the podium since the first edition
of the World Masters in Gdansk, Poland (2010) .
Monica Aguilera gives historical
gold to Spain
Looking to the results, a particular
attention to the gold medal won by Monica Aguilera in W40 class, the
first of Spain ever in a World MTB Orienteering Championships. In
this class, the second place was awarded to the Portuguese Susana
Pontes, improving clearly the bronze medal achieved in the previous
three editions of the World Masters Championships, all of it in the
distance of Sprint. Reference also to the tight victory of Beat Oklé
over the British Killian Lomas in M45 class, for just 10 seconds
apart while in the opposite direction the “fatest” victory
belonged to the Swiss Monika Bonafini, in the W60 class, with a lead
of 7:06 over the second classified, the British Caroline Dallimore. A
note still for the Australian Carolyn Jackson, World Champion in
Sprint for the third year in a row.
At the end of this first day, the Board
of Medals of the World Masters MTB Orienteering Championships 2015
shows the presence of 14 countries and a total of 41 medals
distributed. France, with three gold medals, one silver and one
bronze heads this table, followed by Denmark with two gold medals,
four silver and four bronze and Australia and Switzerland, ex-aequo,
with two gold medals and one bronze medal each.
Results
WMMTBOC 2015
H40
1. Lasse Brun Pedersen (Denmark) 18:59
2. Peter Reibert Hansen (Denmark) 20:29
3. Andrew Windrum (Great Britain) 21:13
D40
1. Monica Aguilera (Spain) 21:12
2. Susana Pontes (Portugal) 23:32
3. Katja Brunstedt (Denmark) 26:42
H45
1. Beat Oklé (Switzerland) 20:27
2. Killian Lomas (Britain) 20:37
3. Andy Conn (Great Britain) 21:36
D45
1. Aurelie Villar (France) 22:26
2. Erzsébet Penzes (Hungary) 26:19
3. Tamsin Barnes (Australia) 29:07
H50
1. Joël Poirette (France) 20:51
2. Stefan Kilberg (Sweden) 22:01
3. Patric Ostergard (Finland) 22:30
D50
1. Carolyn Jackson (Australia) 19:31
2. Elizabeth Clayton (Great Britain)
21:54
3. Charlotte Bergmann (Denmark) 22:01
H55
1. Jean-Charles Lalevee (France) 19:07
2. Denaix Michel (France) 22:44
3. Laus Seir Hansen (Denmark) 23:41
D55
1. Charlie Somers-Cocks (Great Britain)
18:17
2. Tove Andersen (Denmark) 23:35
3. Marie Mateo (France) 27:29
H60
1. Harald Maennel (Germany) 16:13
2. Joergen Nielsen (Denmark) 17:06
3. Nick Dallimore (Great Britain) 17:21
D60
1. Monika Bonafini (Switzerland) 18:31
2. Caroline Dallimore (Great Britain)
25:37
3. Ing-Marie Andrén (Sweden) 28:35
H65
1. Risto Orpana (Finland) 17:54
2. Keld Johnsen (Denmark) 19:00
3. Walter Rahm (Switzerland) 19:03
D65
1. Birgit Hausner (Denmark) 25:47
2. Licia Kalcich (Italy) 26:38
3. Denise Harper (Great Britain) 28:37
H70
1. Privett Leigh (Australia) 20:30
2. Wolf Eberle (Austria) 21:55
3. Per Allen Pedersen (Denmark) 22:20
D70
1. Yett Gelderman (New Zealand) 41:49
H75
1. Herbert Lackner (Austria) 30:42
Full results and other information at
http://mtbo15.fpo.pt/.
[Photo: Organization /
facebook.com/mtbo15.portugal]
Joaquim Margarido
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