Inês Domingues and Cláudio Poiares
were the big winners of the Preo Palmela Invacare 2016. In the last
race before the European Championships, both managed to get tasty
wins, reaching their first victory ever in a PreO competition.
One week before the European Trail
Orienteering Championships ETOC 2016, Palmela hosted the Portuguese
TrailO League Invacare 2016's 7th stage. Organized by ADFA –
Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas and the Portuguese
Orienteering Federation, the event took place in Vale de Barris,
revisiting Serra do Louro and the terrains of the previous European
Championships in this discipline, held in Portugal in April 2014.
In the Open Class, the fight for
victory was really intense, with Inês Domingues (COC) winning with
18 points out of 20 and an overall time of 19 seconds in the timed
controls. World top athlete in the TempO, Inês Domingues comes to
win a Portuguese League's stage for the second time in her career,
the first ever in a PreO competition. The Spanish Miguel Ángel
Garcia (ADOL) managed to meddle in the fight for the victory, ending
his race in a surprising second place with the same points as the
winner, eventually being penalized by the time spending time in the
timed controls. Nuno Pires (Ori-Estarreja) got the third place with
17 points - the same number of points as six other competitors - and
an excellent performance in the timed dontrols. Luís Gonçalves and
João Pedro Valente, both from CPOC - and part of the Portuguese team
that will be heading Jesenik, Czech Republic, in a few days for ETOC
2016 -, finished in the 4th and 6th positions, respectively.
In the Paralympic class, Cláudio
Poiares (DAHP) was the big winner with 15 points out of 20. Having
his first participation on 5th April 2014, in Lisbon, the talented
athlete has been looking for his first win in the Portuguese League
for a long time. Here it is now, with full merit, representing a
valuable prize to his perseverance and resilience. Júlio Guerra
(DAHP) and Alexandre Guedes da Silva (Individual) achieved the
immediate places, both with 13 points. Undisputed leader of the
Portuguese TrailO League Invacare 2016, Ricardo Pinto (DAHP) was far
below the expectations, finishing in the 5th place with the same
points of 2nd placed, but ended up being heavily penalized by a
disastrous performance in the timed controls.
Results
Open class
1. Inês Domingues (COC) 18/20 points
(19 seconds)
2. Miguel Ángel Garcia (ADOL) 18/20
(100 seconds)
3. Nuno Pires (Ori-Estarreja) 17/20
points (20 seconds)
4. Luis Gonçalves (CPOC) 17/20 points
(25 seconds)
5. Nuno Rebelo (Ori-Estarreja) 17/20
points (92 seconds)
6. João Pedro Valente (CPOC) 17/20
points (103 seconds)
Paralympic class
1. Cláudio Poiares (DAHP) 15/20 points
(159 seconds)
2. Júlio Guerra (DAHP) 13/20 points
(27 seconds)
3. Alexandre Guedes da Silva
(Individual) 13/20 points (37 seconds)
4. José Laiginha Leal (DAHP) 13/20
points (125 seconds)
5. Ricardo Pinto (DAHP) 13/20 points
(146 seconds)
6. Ana Paula Marques (DAHP) 6/20 points
(43 seconds)
[Foto: Susana Pereira /
facebook.com/susana.pereira]
Joaquim Margarido
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