TrailO 5 Days of Italy 2016: Remo Madella is the winner

After a hard fight along five challenging days, Remo Madella was the overall winner of TrailO 5 Days of Italy 2016. In an event where the balance was the common denominator, Emil Kacin and Krešo Keresteš got the immediate positions.

Castello Tesino and Cinte Tesino hosted the last stages of TrailO 5 Days of Italy 2016, in which participated 52 competitors from 12 different countries. The event offered two PreO stages, two TempO stages and one TrailO Relay stage, with the sum of all correct answers being the main factor to find the event’s winner. A quick look on the results lets to realize how balanced were all stages, with the doubt regarding the winner to be solved on the last stage only.

With four wrong answers in the first stage, Remo Madella (Vivaio ITA) could improve his results in the second stage – getting there the Italian Championships gold in TempO – and shortening the distance to the lead. After that, he performed quite well in the TrailO Relay and got the third place twice in the last stages, PreO and TempO ones. Krešo Keresteš (OK Trzin SLO) and Emil Kacin (OK Azimut) got one victory each in the two opening stages, both scoring for the Unofficial European Cup in Trail Orienteering 2016, keeping top positions until the last journey. There, Madella was slightly faster and accurate, finishing with 99 points, against 98 from Kacin and 96 from Keresteš. One last word to Lars Jakob Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) and Antonin Forst (MatFyz Praha CZE) that won the fourth and fifth stages, and for the Slovenian team (Krešo Keresteš, Emil Kacin and Marco Giovannini), the TrailO Relay’s winners.

Results

Stage #3

TrailO Relay

1. SLO (Marco Giovannini, Emil Kacin, Krešo Keresteš) 529 seconds

2. NOR (Ole-Johan Waaler, Martin Aarholt Waaler, Lars Jakob Waaler) 562 seconds

3. ITA (Remo Madella, Stefano Galletti, Alessio Tenani) 699 seconds

4. NOR/GBR (Sigurd Daehli, Wydar Taxth Loland, Charles Bromley Gardner) 758 seconds

5. CZE (Antonin Forst, Lenka Forstova, Libor Forst) 762 seconds

Stage #4

PreO

1. Lars Jakob Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 23/23 points (9 seconds)

2. Sigurd Daehli (Loten Orienteringslag NOR) 23/23 points (10 seconds)

3. Remo Madella (Vivaio ITA) 23/23 points (11 seconds)

4. Martin Aarholt Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 23/23 points (12 seconds)

5. Emil Kacin (OK Azimut SLO) 23/23 points (18 seconds)

6. Markéta Šimková (Sportovní klub Los Mělník CZE) 22/23 points (20 seconds)

7. Wydar Taxth Loland (Hisoy Orienteringsklubb NOR) 22/23 points (21,5 seconds)

8. Charles Bromley Gardner (British Army Orienteering Club GBR) 22/23 points (25 seconds)

9. Antonin Forst (MatFyz Praha CZE) 22/23 points (32 seconds)

10. Mateja Keresteš (OK Trzin SLO) 22/23 points (78 seconds)

Stage #5

TempO

1. Antonin Forst (MatFyz Praha CZE) 381 seconds

2. Lars Jakob Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 396 seconds

3. Remo Madella (Vivaio ITA) 403 seconds

4. Emil Kacin (OK Azimut SLO) 420 seconds

5. Zoltán Miháczi (Tipo Orienteering Club HUN) 425 seconds

6. Dušan Furucz (Farmaceut Bratislava SVK) 445 seconds

7. Sigurd Daehli (Loten Orienteringslag NOR) 450 seconds

8. Alessio Tenani (Gruppo Sportivo Forestale ITA) 476 seconds

9. Martin Aarholt Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 496 seconds

10. Alberto Grilli (Punto Nord ITA) 498 seconds

TrailO 5 Days of Italy 2016

Overall standings

1. Remo Madella (Vivaio ITA) 99 points (205,5 seconds)

2. Emil Kacin (OK Azimut SLO) 98 points (158 seconds)

3. Krešo Keresteš (OK Trzin SLO) 96 points (150 seconds)

4. Libor Forst (MatFyz Praha CZE) 96 points (188 seconds)

5. Lars Jakob Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 96 points (232 seconds)

6. Alessio Tenani (Gruppo Sportivo Forestale ITA) 95 points (184 seconds)

7. Sigurd Daehli (Loten Orienteringslag NOR) 95 points (289 seconds)

8. Zoltán Miháczi (Tipo Orienteering Club HUN) 94 points (107 seconds)

9. Martin Aarholt Waaler (Porsgrunn Orienteringslag NOR) 92 points (135,5 seconds)

10. Marco Giovannini (OK Trzin SLO) 91 points (158 seconds)

Complete results, maps, solutions and further information at http://www.trailo2016.it/.

[Photo archive]

Joaquim Margarido