Marit Wiksell won the FinTrailO
2016. The Swedish athlete was faster and accurate as any other
competitors in the two PreO stages and took the second place in the
TempO stage. Martin Jullum and Pinja Mäkinen completed the podium.
Muurame and Jyväskylä hosted along
the weekend the FinTrailO 2016, international TrailO competition that
attracted 69 competitors from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Latvia. The
programme started with the TempO stage and then directly with the
PreO's first stage, on Saturday. Today it was time for the PreO's
second stage and the prize giving ceremony. Lauri Kontkanen and Esko
Juntilla were the course setters of the PreO stages, while Lauri
Mäkinen signed the TempO's course setting. Lauri Kontkanen was the
mapper of all stages.
After the victory in the TempO stage
and a second place in the PreO, the Norwegian Martin Jullum (Halden
SK) got the lead in the first day of competition, ahead of the
Swedish Marit Wiksell (Rehns BK) and the Finnish Pinja Mäkinen
(Koo-Vee) and Marko Määtälä (Kaustisen Pohjan-Veikot), all four
with the same number of points (58). Wiksell performed really fast in
TempO but did four mistakes against two mistakes from Jullum, Mäkinen
and Määtälä. In the PreO, she made a “full” of 30/30 points,
as 13 other competitors, but was faster in the timed controls,
finishing the first day 8 seconds behind Jullum, overall.
Today, Marit Wiksell performed again at
the highest level, winning with another “full” of 25/25 points
and spending 8 seconds in the timed controls. Martin Jullum did a
fatal mistake in the final part of the course (as 50 other
competitors in the same control, namely Pinja Mäkinen and Marko
Määtälä) and the winner was founded. Wiksell achieved 83 points
overall, repeating the result in the FinTrailO, after her victory
last year, in Espoo. Martin Jullum was second with 82 points, the
same number of points as Pinja Mäkinen but with an advantage of 70
seconds in the timed controls overall.
Full results, maps and solutions can be
found at http://www.muuramenrasti.fi/fintrailo-2016/.
[Archive photo]
Joaquim Margarido
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