It was a really intense battle.
Halden SK's girls took the helm and led the barge almost to the end.
But it was OK Pan Århus and Nydalens SK who sprinted for the
victory. In the last leg, Maja Alm got to the Danish team its second
victory in the last three editions of 10MILA.
The
clock showed 2:15 pm when in Falun - Borlänge started the Damkavlen,
the 10MILA 2016's Women Relay. On the start line, 323 teams of five
members each handed out to another great adventure with the ultimate
goal of achieving the best possible result, which means, for the best
world teams, to think exclusively in the possibility of crossing the
finish line in the first place. As usual, all really well
balanced in the first leg, with the strong Norwegian team of Halden
SK getting the leadership by the Swiss Elena Roos, with less than one
minute on eleven other teams, including the defending 10MILA
Damkavlen winners, the Swedish from Domnarvets GoIF. Recovering of a
less good start on the second leg, Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul did a
really consistent race, expanding in the end the Halden's advantage
to 1:35 over Koovee, 1:37 over Fossum IF and 1:38 over Domnarvets
GoIF.
With a really strong start on the third
leg, Hollie Orr came to give to Halden a three minutes advantage over
the second placed, but some mistakes next the finnish allowed Judith Wyder (Göteborg-Majorna OK) to draw nearer Orr, shortening the
difference to narrow 35 seconds at the start for the 4th leg. In this
moment, the teams of IFK Lidingö SOK, Nydalens SK and Koovee ran
approximately 1:30 after the lead and Domnarvets GoIF was sixth
placed, with 2:02 more than the leader. The shortest leg is here and
the duel is now between Anni-Maija Fincke (Halden SK) and Viktoria
Ernstsson (Göteborg-Majorna OK). A small mistake of Fincke is enough
to Ernstsson to take the lead, but the last part of the race is quite
dramatic to the Swedish team, with Ernstsson loosing time after time
and finishing 1:49 away from Anni-Maija Fincke. Will it be enough to
Halden SK to get back to 2012 and recover the 10MILA scepter?
Inappropriate for cardiacs
The start field for the last leg is
amazingly strong and the Swiss Sabine Hauswirth will have everything but
easiness to keep the first place. Lina Strand (Göteborg-Majorna OK),
Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg (Nydalens SK), Maja Alm (OK Pan
Århus), Anna Bachman (IFK Lidingö SOK), Svetlana Mironova (Koovee)
or Emma Johansson (Domnarvets GoIF) are just some of the major names
expecting for a mistake in the lead. And Sabine Hauswirth breaks.
With half of the last leg completed, she falls to the 7th position,
while Lina Strand gets the lead now. But Lina seems also breaking in
the decisive part of the race and, with few controls to the finish,
there's four teams separated by 9 seconds: Strand, Bachman, Nordberg
or Alm? Göteborg-Majorna OK, IFK Lidingö SOK, Nydalens SK or OK Pan
Århus? Who will be the winner?
We are approaching to the Prewarn and
the Finish line and Lina Strand and Anna Bachmann lost in the
meanwhile precious seconds. In the lead, Alm and Hausken Nordberg
fight shoulder by shoulder for the victory. It's a duel inappropriate
for cardiacs. The winner will be found in the final sprint and, here,
Alm's greater youth will be decisive. The Danish girls of OK Pan
Århus are jumping again to the top place of the podium, like they
did two years ago. Cecilie Friberg Klysner, Josefine Lind, Signe
Søes, Ida Bobach and Maja Alm reached the first place with the
overall time of 3:57:36, 5 seconds before Nydalens SK and Anne
Margrethe Hausken Nordberg. With more 42 seconds
than the winners, Göteborg-Majorna OK was third.
Results
1. OK Pan Århus (C.F. Klysner, J. Lind, S. Søes, I. Bobach, M. Alm) 3:57:36 (+ 00:00)
2. Nydalens SK (M. Sørensen, T. Lye,
S. Ulvestad, A. Ulvestad, A.M.H. Nordberg) 3:57:41 (+ 00:05)
3. Göteborg-Majorna OK (K. Berglia, A.
Forsberg, J. Wyder, V. Ernstsson, L. Strand) 3:58:18 (+ 00:42)
4. IFK Lidingö SOK (J. Sanderi, A.
Hugosson, H. Karlsson, A. Gustafsson, A. Bachman) 3:58:22 (+ 00:46)
5. Domnarvets GoIF (J. Tullie, K.
Højsgaard, D.S. Brozkova, J. Lindberg, E. Johansson) 4:00:13 (+
2:37)
6. Alfta-Ösa OK (G. Vinogradova, J.
Engström, S. Eskilsson, Y. Kindlundh, N. Vinogradova) 4:01:00 (+
03:24)
7. Koovee (J. Huikkonen, M. Niittynen,
M. Niittynen, U. Uotila, S. Mironova) 4:01:01 (+ 03:25)
8. Halden SK (E. Roos, I.M.N. Bjørgul,
H. Orr, A.-M. Fincke, S. Hauswirth) 4:01:36 (+ 04:00)
9. Järla Orientering (I. Myhre, E.
Jansson, E. Klingenberg, S. Klinting, K. Ohlsson) 4:05:22 (+ 07:46)
10. Fredrikstad SK (M.R. Kahrs, M.
Kahrs, E. Johansson, L.M. Solberg, H.Ø. Bagstevold) 4:06:07 (+
08:31)
For further information, please visit
the event's webpage at http://www.10mila.se/index.php/en/.
[Photo: Svensk Orientering / facebook.com/svenskorientering]
Joaquim Margarido
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