Olav Lundanes and Helena Jansson
were the big winners of the opening stage of the FootO World Cup
2016. The Swedish and Norwegian strength extended to the other top
positions, in a race where the Swiss performed below expectations.
The Foot Orienteering World Cup 2016
started this morning, with a Middle Distance stage on the Ślęża
mountain, Sobotka, about 40 kilometers outside Wroclaw. Extremely
challenging, the courses were attended by 120 runners in the Men
Elite class and 89 in the Women Elite class, having the Norwegian Olav
Lundanes and the Swedish Helena Jansson as the big winners.
In the Men Elite class, Lundanes
performed very consistently, leading from the beginning and finishing
with a time of 35:11. A comfortable 1:09 winning over his team mate
Carl Godager Kaas, with the Swedish Albin Ridefelt finishing third with 36:33. The first non-Norwegian or Swedish in the final standings was
the Swiss Florian Howald, 8th placed at 2:13 from the lead, while the
IOF World Ranking leader and winner of the two last editions of the
FootO World Cup, the Swiss Daniel Hubmann, couldn't get better than
the 19th position, at far 3:57 from Lundanes. Ukranian Ruslan Glibov
took an impressive 8th place, with the same time as Howald. In the
end of his course, Lundanes would say: “I used the main contours
and also ran a lot on compass” [IOF webpage].
As for the Women Elite class, the
Swedish Helena Jansson and Tove Alexandersson, the FootO World Cup
winner in 2014 and 2015, fought hardly for the victory, finishing
separated by two single seconds. The two athletes were changing
positions in the lead along the whole race, but Helena was stronger
than Tove in the last controls, finishing with the time of 38:31. The
fight for the next places was also really tight, with the five next
athletes separated by near 25 seconds. Svetlana Mironova, from
Russia, was third at 1:28 from Jansson, while the Czech Denisa Kosova
confirmed the excellent performances of last weekend, during the EOC
selection races of her country, finishing seventh, at 1:52 from the
lead. “I made some mistakes today. I didn’t expect this to be a
winning race”, Helena Jansson said [IOF webpage].
Results
Men Elite (6,5 Km 240 m 27 C)
1. Olav Lundanes (Norway) 35:19 (+
00:00)
2. Carl Godager Kaas (Norway) 36:28 (+
01:09)
2. Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) 36:33 (+ 01:14)
2. Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) 36:33 (+ 01:14)
4. Johan Runesson (Sweden) 36:40 (+
01:21)
5. Gustav Bergman (Sweden) 36:48 (+
01:29)
6. Magne Dæhli (Norway) 37:21 (+
02:02)
Women Elite (5,4 Km 210 m 23 C)
1. Helena Jansson (Sweden) 38:31 (+
00:00)
2. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) 38:33 (+
00:02)
3. Svetlana Mironova (Russia) 39:59 (+
01:28)
4. Merja Rantanen (Finland) 40:09 (+
01:38)
5. Venla Harju (Finland) 40:14 (+
01:43)
6. Maja Alm (Denmark) 40:22 (+ 01:51)
Joaquim Margarido
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