Bulgaria was the great winner of the
South East European Orienteering Championships SEEOC & SEEMOC
2015, that took place at Bansko. Individually, the Bulgarian Ivan
Sirakov and the Romanian Andra Cecilia Anghel were prominent names.
Particularly known for its qualities as
a snow resort, the Bulgarian town of Bansko, at the foot of the Pirin
Mountains, hosted the 5th edition of the South East European
Orienteering Championships SEEOC 2015 and the 4th edition of the
South East European Masters Orienteering Championships SEEMOC 2015.
Held in the classes of M/W Elite, M/W16, M/W18 and M/W20, the SEEOC
2015 had the participation of 193 athletes representing ten national
teams. As for SEEMOC 2015, it joined the M/W35 class until the M/W75 class, with
the participation of 144 athletes from ten different nations. At the
same time, took place the Bansko Cup 2015, open event which brought
together a total of 635 participants and called to the competition,
in addition to the athletes belonging to the affiliated Federations in
SEEOA - South East European Orienteering Association, representatives
from New Zealand, Norway and Russia.
Counting for the IOF World Ranking, the
individual races relied on six different winners in male and female
Elite. The Sprint that started the competition saw the Bulgarian Ivan
Sirakov and Antonia Grigorova as big winners. The Romanian Ionut
Zinca and the Moldovan Galina Ribediuc won the Long Distance, while
the victories in the Middle Distance went to the Bulgarian Ivaylo
Kamenarov and the Romanian Andra Cecilia Anghel. Bulgaria also won
the male and female Relay, in the first case with a team composed by Teodor Yordanov, Ivaylo Kamenarov and Ivan Sirakov and in the women
by Antoniya Grigorova, Liudmila Gotseva and Liliana Gotseva. In the
sum of the results, Ivan Sirakov and Andra Cecilia Anghel eventually
beat the concurrence, with Ionut Zinca and Galina Ribediuc to stay in
the second position and the Turkish Ozgur Fettah and the Romanian
Veronica Minoiu concluding in the third place on the respective
classes. As for the youngsters, the Bulgarian Boyan Ivandjikov (M16)
and Apostol Atanasov (M20) were the featured figures, with two wins
and one second place achieved in the three races.
Bulgaria also wins in Veterans
The competition of Veterans SEEMOC 2015
was distributed by 18 different classes and saw the Bulgarian
athletes rise to the top of the podium for 21 times in the sum of the
three individual courses. Featured notes for the Turkish Tatiana
Kalenderoglu (W40), the Romanian Istvan Sebestyen (M40), the
Serbs Života Tasic (M60) and Miodrag Radisavljevic (M75), the
Moldovan Larisa Pogorletscaia (W70) and the Bulgarian Mariana
Zhecheva (W50), Petya Koleva (W55), Marusya Danailova (W60) and
Nikola Bedelev (M70), reaching three wins in as many races. Overall,
Bulgaria secured the top spot in eight classes, followed by Moldova
with four wins, Serbia and Romania with two wins each and Turkey and
Croatia, with a triumph each.
In the end, Bulgaria was the winner of
SEEOC 2015 with a total of 1682 points, having mastered six of the
eight competition classes. Under 242 points, Romania occupied the
second place, leaving the third place to Turkey with 1310 points.
Regarding the SEEMOC 2015, the victory of Bulgaria was overwhelming,
providing a total of 3206 points against 1496 points of Moldova,
second placed and 1472 points from Serbia, which occupied the third
place.
Results
Men Elite
1. Ivan Sirakov (Bulgaria) 118 points
2. Ionut Zinca (Romania) 109 points
3. Ozgur Fettah (Turkey) 76 points
4. Jernej Nejc Zorman (Slovenia) 72
points
5. Milovan Milic (Serbia) 62 points
6. Sergiu Fala (Moldova) 56 points
Women Elite
1. Andra Cecilia Anghel (Romania) 123
points
2. Galina Ribediuc (Moldova) 109 points
3. Veronica Minoiu (Romania) 92 points
4. Liliana Gotseva (Bulgaria) 91 points
5. Ajda Flashker (Slovenia) 82 points
6. Antonia Grigorova (Bulgaria) 75
points
Other classes' winners
M/W16 - Boyan Ivandjikov (Bulgaria) and
Niya Georgieva (Bulgaria)
M/W18 - Mihai Tintar (Romania) and Elif
Gokce Avci (Turkey)
M/W20 - Apostol Atanosov (Bulgaria) and
Andreya Dyaksova (Bulgaria)
M/W35 - Eugeniu Borsci (Moldova) and
Veselina Zasheva (Bulgaria)
M/W40 - Istvan Sebestyen (Romania) and
Tatiana Kalenderoglu (Turkey)
M/W45 - Robert Orehoci (Croatia) and
Olga Cecan (Moldova)
M/W50 - Boyko Stoyanov (Bulgaria) and
Mariana Zhecheva (Bulgaria)
M/W55 - Victor Ursu (Moldova) and Petya
Koleva (Bulgaria)
M/W60 - Života Tasic (Serbia) and
Marusya Danailova (Bulgaria)
M/W65 - Lucian Gălăţeanu (Romania)
and Todorka Vaseva (Bulgaria)
M/W70 - Nikola Bedelev (Bulgaria) and
Larisa Pogosrletscaia (Moldova)
M/W75 - Miodrag Radisavljevic (Serbia)
and Anna Cholakova (Bulgaria)
Complete results and further
information at http://seeoc2015.orienteering.bg/.
Joaquim Margarido
