Mariana Moreira qualified for the
Sprint Final of the WOC 2015, which started today in Scotland. Running the
second heat, the Portuguese athlete occupied the 15th place, spending more 1:44 than the winner, the leader of the IOF
World Ranking, Tove Alexandersson.
After Raquel Costa (Rapperswil, 2003
and Lausanne, 2012), Mariana Moreira is the second Portuguese athlete
to be present in a women's final of the World Orienteering
Championships. Running the second heat of the Sprint qualification, our representative was ranked
15th with a time of 15:15, 1:44 more than the winner, the Swedish
Tove Alexandersson. Carolina Delgado and Patricia Casalinho
performed well, still insufficient to follow their colleague into the
much desired and decisive final. The Danish Maja Alm and the Finnish
Minna Kauppi were the winners of the remaining heats, with Judith
Wyder (Switzerland), the current World Champion, being second placed
in her heat.
In the Men class, the Portuguese Tiago
Romão is worthy of the “unlucky prize”, staying at one single
second to the final, by finishing his course in the 16th position with
the time of 12:39. Tiago Gingão Leal was also very close to stamp
his passport to the decisive race, finishing in the 18th place, seven
seconds away from the time needed. Not as good as his
teammates, João Mega Figueiredo finished in the 24th place at 38
seconds of the Belgian Tomas Hendrickx, ranked 15th in his heat.
Yannick Michiels (Belgium), Kristian Jones (Great Brit ain) and
Jerker Lysell (Sweden) were the winners of the respective heats, as
the current World Champion, the Danish Søren Bobach, was the 4th
place in the second heat. The final will be played on Sunday, at the
seaside town of Nairn. All to follow at http://www.woc2015.org/.
Joaquim Margarido
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