WOC Middle Quali

[denzil53]

Qualification today for the WOC Middle race.

British team start times:
Claire 14:16, Rachael 14:28, Hollie 14:46,
Oli 15:26, Matt 15:46, Graham 16:12.

These are French times - take 1 hour off for UK.

[Spookster]

Claire is in but 8 mins down, so maybe not good enough, but Rach just finished less than 3 mins down, should be fine.

[ba-ba]

Hollie's about 2mins down through radio1, could be tight?

and the easy way to get all results at once if you haven't seen it yet: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jvtmuukk/woc2011/

[ER]

How many qualify from each heat? Hope they all do.

[ba-ba]

15 from each heat-> final
Claire's out of it - just dropped into 16th, but at least she's got the long final to focus on - Bagstevold (Nor) in her heat is also in danger of missing out, which would be a shock, currently in 14th!

Hollie's into 7th, which is where Rachael now is in her heat, both looking good to qualify.

[andypat]

Looks like Claire outside top 15 but Hollie and Rachael looking good

[Spookster]

Yes, two of the three girls go through.

Oli going ok at the first radio...

[ba-ba]

OJ into 3rd (+20secs) in heat A. I'm expecting Craney to have been through the 1st radio (Bostrom 2mins before went through ages ago) but he's nowhere to be seen yet :S

[ba-ba]

ah, there we go, through in 6th, +2minish. Live results must be a bit sluggish.

[ba-ba]

Craney into 6th place, 3.41 down but in the toughest heat but *should* be OK to qualify looking at those starting after him. Might be a bit tighter with Oli but hopefully OK.
GG should be through radio1 soon.

[ba-ba]

GG through in 3rd place, +40secsish - his heat looks pretty tough as well. Actually they all do...

[Spookster]

Crossing fingers for Oli now. His radio 1 time is 12th best, with 31 runners through.

Matt's time looks ok, and GG started well.

[ba-ba]

Oli's 1st radio time was OK, but Fohr and others behind him there leap-frogged him to the finish. However, the Tue Lassen/Valentin Novikov train appears to have misspunched, so may just squeak in?

[ba-ba]

Ah, they've now been re-instated, so Oli's down in 16th.
Oh well, Long to focus on!

[ba-ba]

GG and Craney through in 12 and 10th respectively.
At least Claire and Oli have the long finals to focus on.
3 Italians through in the mens!

MASSIVE surprise in the Men's - Pasi Ikonen missed out, finishing in 16th! John Are Mhyren also missed out in the same heat.