About to come to an end, the World
MTB Orienteering Championships 2015 saw the last
individual competition of the program being held today. Anton Foliforov and Martina
Tichovska were the big winners of the Long Distance final, fairly achieving the titles of “king” and “queen” of the World
Championships. Oskar Sandberg and Darya Mikryukova won the gold at
the Junior World Championships.
The third and penultimate day of the
competitive program of the World MTB Orienteering Championships 2015
was dedicated to the Long Distance, acclaiming the last individual
World Champions of the season. Extending to a wide area of the
district towns of Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou, in the Czech
Republic, the courses presented very high levels of physical demand
and technical challenge, in a particularly uneven area with a dense
network of paths. In the men's race, the Russian Anton Foliforov
renewed the title of World Champion, by completing his course in
1:42:11. Foliforov finish in the best way a season full of success,
joining to this world title of Long Distance won today, the world
title of Middle Distance reached last Tuesday last and still the
European titles of Middle Distance and Long Distance brought from
Idanha-a -Nova, Portugal, last June. Corollary of that which is his
best season ever, the athlete reinforced his leadership in the IOF
World Ranking, while he won the MTB Orienteering World Cup 2015. The
fight for the second place was exciting, with the Finnish Jussi
Laurila to be the strongest, finishing at 1:30 from Foliforov. In the
third place stayed another of the great revelations of the
Championships, the Italian Luca Dallavalle, who spent more six
seconds than Laurila. Davide Machado was, once again, the best
Portuguese in the competition, achieving a creditable 16th place,
10:12 behind the winner.
In the women's race, the Czech Martina
Tichovska was a much acclaimed winner, completing her course with the
time of 1:31:07 and beating a strong concurrence. After the second
place in the Middle Distance and the gold achieved in the Sprint,
Tichovska closes in the best way her participate in the Championships
where, “playing home”, she was able to give enormous joy to the
many fans that are following closely the competition. For the second
consecutive year, the Russian Svetlana Poverina reached the silver
medal in the Long Distance, ending her course with more 1:06 than the
winner. The Swedish Cecilia Thomasson completed her course in 1:34:04
and was the third ranked, thus repeating the bronze achieved in the
final of Sprint last Wednesday. The best Portuguese athlete in
competition was Susana Pontes, finishing with a time of 2:21:11 to
which correspond the 44th place.
The last reference goes to the Junior
World Championships, which saw also assign the titles of Long
Distance. Succeeding to the Austrian Andreas Waldmann, the Swedish
Oskar Sandberg won the World title by completing his course in
1:26:48. It's him, unavoidably, the brightest star of these Junior
World Championships 2015, having reached the gold in the Middle
Distance course that opened the Championships and was bronze
medallist in the final of Sprint. The Czech Vaclav Snuparek was - as
happened in the European Championships - the second placed, at 56
seconds to the Swedish, while the third place fell to Frenchman
Antoine Vercauteren, with more 1:25 than the winner. In the women's
class, the Russian Darya Mikryukova finally reached the gold after
the third places achieved in the previous finals. European Champion
in this distance but in the W17 class (!), the very young Russian
gave a lesson to the strong concurrence, winning with a time of
1:26:22. The French Lou Denaix completed her race in 1:32:20, earning
her third silver medal in a row. In the third place stayed the
Swedish Elvira Larsson, a few three seconds more than Denaix. A
curious note just for the fact that Darya Mikryukova have established
today a new record, fixing in 5:58 the biggest difference of times
ever between the winner and the runner-up in eight editions of
women's Junior World Championships.
Results
M21
1. Anton Foliforov (Russia) 1:42:11 (+
00:00)
2. Jussi Laurila (Finland) 1:43:41 (+
01:30)
3. Luca Dallavalle (Italy) 1:43:47 (+
01:36)
4. Samuli Saarela (Finland) 1:44:16 (+
02:05)
5. Jiri Hradil (Czech Republic) 1:46:10
(+ 03:59)
6. Marek Pospisek (Czech Republic)
1:46:37 (+ 04:26)
(...)
16. Davide Machado (Portugal) 1:52:23
(+ 10:12)
34. Daniel Marques (Portugal) 2:02:05
(+ 19:54)
45. Carlos Simões (Portugal) 2:10:21
(+ 28:10)
W21
1. Martina Tichovska (Czech Republic)
1:31:07 (+ 00:00)
2. Svetlana Poverina (Russia) 1:32:13
(+ 01:06)
3. Cecilia Thomasson (Sweden) 1:34:04
(+ 02:57)
4. Gaëlle Barlet (France) 1:37:06 (+
05:59)
4. Emily Benham (Britain) 1:37:06 (+
05:59)
6. Camilla Soegaard (Denmark) 1:37:18 (+
06:11)
(...)
44. Susana Pontes (Portugal) 2:21:11
(+ 50:04)
49. Ana Filipa Silva (Portugal) 2:30:30
(+ 59:23)
51. Tânia Covas Costa (Portugal)
2:39:42 (+ 1:08:35)
M20
1. Oskar Sandberg (Sweden) 1:26:48 (+
00:00)
2. Vaclav Snuparek (Czech Republic)
1:22:44 (+ 00:56)
3. Antoine Vercauteren (France) 1:28:13
(+ 01:25)
4. Alexander Kulgaviy (Russia) 1:28:51
(+ 02:03)
5. Sauli Pietikäinen (Finland) 1:29:30
(+ 02:42)
6. Florian Pinsard (France) 1:30:27 (+
03:39)
(...)
38. Paul Roothans (Portugal) 1:55:57 (+
29:09)
43. Duarte Lourenço (Portugal) 2:03:53
(+ 37:05)
45. Diogo Barradas (Portugal) 2:05:09
(+ 38:21)
48. André Ramalho (Portugal) 2:12:04
(+ 45:16)
Afonso Barreiros (Portugal) mp
W20
1. Darya Mikryukova (Russia) 1:26:22 (+
00:00)
2. Lou Denaix (France) 1:32:20 (+
05:58)
3. Elvira Larsson (Sweden) 1:32:23 (+
06:01)
4. Sandrine Muller (Switzerland)
1:34:55 (+ 08:33)
5. Doris Kudre (Estonia) 1:37:04 (+
10:42)
5. Anna Semenova (Russia) 1:38:37 (+
12:15)
Complete results and further
information at http://www.wmtboc2015.cz/.
Joaquim Margarido
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