JWOC Bulgaria

[afterthought]

With laudable performances no doubt coming and athletes from all over the country, we'll be needing a Junior World Champs thread.

World of O briefing: http://news.worldofo.com/2014/07/21/jwoc-2014-all-you-need-to-know/

British team:

• Women
Lucy Butt (SARUM/UDOC),
Julie Emmerson (OD),
Zoe Harding (SROC),
Megan Carter Davies (MWOC),
Tamsin Moran (SOC/SHUOC),
Katie Reynolds (SBOC/EUOC).
Non Travelling Reserve - Rhona McMillan (MAROC/ShUOC)

• Men
Ciaran Allen (DEE),
Alexander Chepelin (GRAMP),
Christopher Galloway (INT/EUOC),
Adam Potter (BOK),
Aidan Smith (SYO),
Oliver Williams (DEE/SHUOC).
Non-travelling Reserve - Ben Maliphant (BOK/SHUOC).

First race is the Sprint tomorrow (Tuesday.)

[andy]

Live stuff linked from: http://jwoc2014.bg/index.php?name=livecenter

Can't get onto the live results link.

Maps and GPS tracking are viewable now though. Looks like quite a few trap-like 'which side of the uncrossable feature is it on' controls which is a bit sad to see, but decent looking courses otherwise.

[andy]

From the really crappy photo of the printed results on Facebook, looks like a really good 11= for Zoe

25 Lucy
35 Tamsin
49 Julie
72 Rhona (McMillan, reserve, Megan mustn't have gone)
and a mp for Katie

[andy]

28 Aidan Smith
48 Adam Potter
65 Alexander Chepelin
78= Ciaran Allen
80 Olly Williams
96 Chris Galloway

[andy]

Not sure the blokes will be too pleased, but some great results from the girls!

[andy]

Probably a good thing Zoe didn't make the podium, there wouldn't be any space! 5 people with 14:01

[Strider]

From the really crappy photo of the printed results on Facebook, looks like a really good 11= for Zoe

25 Lucy
35 Tamsin
49 Julie
72 Rhona (McMillan, reserve, Megan mustn't have gone)
and a mp for Katie

Yes, Megan withdrew around the time of EYOC

[andy]

Clearly some tough conditions, the photos on the JWOC facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/jwoc2014/timeline

And Olly just tweeted this

Completely clean run with only the odd hesitation, but that counts for nothing when running on ankle deep puddles and ice rink pavements.

[speedy123]

thunderstorm from about 10:30, early start block runners very lucky.

[ER]

A belated to good luck to our JWOC team. The long distance area looks very tough, steep, at altitude and demanding.

[afterthought]

Yes, many congratulations and well done Zoe.

And with the organisers pages not working the Facebook page was the place to find results - there were clues on Twitter too.

In the men's the medallists start positions were 142nd, 132nd and 113th (out of 161.)
In the womens' the medallists start positions were 71st, 45th and 62nd (out of 134.)

Four out of top eight women from Sweden, reminding us it can be harder for GBR runners to get a high placing at JWOC than at WOC, because there are more runners per country.

Best wishes to GBR runners for the long.

[andy]

http://bidwbb.smugmug.com/2014-Journal/ ... G_6635.jpg

someone posted this on attackpoint, pretty brutal! (it's from the sprint, obviously)

[Tatty]

Long Final
25 Aidan
45 Sasha
69 Ciaran
101 Chris
110 Oli

30 Lucy
46 Julie
82 Rhona
90 Tamsin

DNF Zoe, Katie.

Looks like a tough day. Times were long.

[speedy123]

Long Final
25 Aidan
45 Sasha
69 Ciaran
101 Chris
110 Oli

30 Lucy
46 Julie
82 Rhona
90 Tamsin

DNF Zoe, Katie.

Looks like a tough day. Times were long.

Did the Boys not have a full team in the long today ?

[Strider]

Yes, Adam was 72nd