Tim Robertson and Simona Aebersold
are the Junior World Champions in Sprint 2015. In the course that
took place this morning in Åmot, the Portuguese performed modestly,
with Carolina Delgado to achieve the best position in the 82nd place.
Opened today in Norway the 26th edition
of the Junior World Orienteering Championships JWOC 2015. The small
town of Åmot received the Sprint course, attended by 154 male
athletes and 135 female. In the men's class, the New Zealander Tim
Robertson was the fastest, running the 3810 meters of his course in
14:31 and getting his second world Sprint title in a row. With more
three seconds, ranked the Finn Aleksi Niemi, while the Lithuanian
Algirdas Bartkevicius, with more 26 seconds, won the bronze medal.
Switzerland and France deserve a reference by placing two athletes
each in the top 10, while Norway had in Andreas Soelberg its best
athlete in the 11th place. The two Portuguese athletes in the
competition had modest performances, with Daniel Catarino to be the
116th ranked and André Esteves the takedown by the 129th position.
“It was a really tough race, it was
very hot and I had to push hard to get the gold this year”, said
Tim Robertson at the end of his course, adding: “The course was
fun, really challenging and I enjoyed it.” Looking to his
performance, Robertson says: “I thought I had some route choice
errors in the beginning and I pushed really hard after those, trying
to make up some time and I think that's why I had a good time through
the run. After that I was really tired and there was some short
climbs and I had to walk some of those... I was really tired!”.
And a last word about the next days and a chance of getting another
medal:" I'm looking for a good result in the Long Distance but,
yeah... we'll wait and see.”
In the women's race, the biggest
favourite, the Swedish Sara Hagstrom, would be disqualified, with the
victory going to the Swiss Simona Aebersold with a time of 13:56 for
3210 meters of her course. Silver medalist in 2014, the Norwegian
Heidi Martensson repeated her result, concluding with ten seconds
more than Aebersold. Third place, at distant 34 seconds of the
winner, placed the Finnish Karoliina Ukskoski. Only four countries
signed its names in the top 10 of women's rankings, with Finland and
Switzerland, with four and three athletes, respectively, to
demonstrate a huge superiority. Here too Portugal was below the
expectations, with the Portuguese Sprint Champion, Carolina Delgado,
not to go beyond the 82nd place and Joana Fernandes occupying the
83rd position, 5 seconds behind her team mate.
Results
M20
1. Tim Robertson (New Zealand) 14:31
2. Aleksi Niemi (Finland) 14:34 (+
00:03)
3. Algirdas Bartkevicius (Lithuania)
14:57 (+ 00:26)
4. Thomas Curiger (Switzerland) 15:04
(+ 00:33)
4. Tobia Pezzati (Switzerland) 15:04 (+
00:33)
6. Topi Raitanen (Finland) 15:06 (+
00:35)
7. Aidan Smith (Great Britain) 15:08 (+
0:37)
8. Arnaud Perrin (France) 15:14 (+
00:43)
9. Simon Hector (Sweden) 15:19 (+
00:48)
10. Quentin Rauturier (France) 15:23 (+
00:52)
(...)
116. Daniel Catarino (Portugal) 18:43
(+ 04:12)
129. André Esteves (Portugal) 19:37 (+
05:06)
W20
1. Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) 13:56
2. Heidi Martensson (Norway) 14:06 (+
00:10)
3. Karoliina Ukskoski (Finland) 14:30
(+ 00:34)
4. Sigrid Alexandersen (Norway) 14:38
(+ 00:42)
5. Anna Haataja (Finland) 14:43 (+
00:47)
6. Emmi Jokela (Finland) 15:01 (+
01:05)
7. Paula Gross (Switzerland) 15:08 (+
01:12)
8. Noora Koskinen (Finland) 15:10 (+
01:14)
9. Sofie Bachmann (Switzerland) 15:12
(01:16 +)
9. Emma Bjessmo (Sweden) 15:12 (+
01:16)
(...)
82. Carolina Delgado (Portugal) 18:15
(+ 04:19)
83. Joana Fernandes (Portugal) 18:20 (+
04:24)
Complete results and further
information at http://www.jwoc2015.org/.
[Photo: Jan Kocbach /
twitter.com/worldofo]
Joaquim Margarido
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