Wolrd Trail-Orienteering Champs 2011

[JK]

Since there is no WTOC results on the BOF website, here are the results of the top 6 podium places and all GBR performances. Full results and breakdown of scores are on
http://live.woc2011.fr/index.php?id=wto ... ll-results

WTOC Team (16 teams competed):
1. FIN 62pts, 95.5s
2. NOR 61pts, 70s
3. SWE 60pts, 77s
4. GBR 60pts, 205s
5. DEN 59pts, 170s
6. JAP 59pts, 213.5s

WTOC Paralympic Class (39 competitors):
1. Dmitry Kucherenko 40pts, 58s
2. Soren Saxtorph 40pts, 64s
3. Inga Gunnarsson 40pts 114
4. Ola Jansson 40pts, 123.5s
5. Arne Ask 40pts, 125s
6. Michael Johansson 39pts 63.5s
15. John Crosby 36pts, 206.5s

WTOC Open Class (64 competitors):
1. Lauri Kontkanen FIN 43pts, 48.5s
2. Antti Rusanen FIN 43pts, 85s
3. Ivo Tisljar CRO 43pts, 113s
4. Tomas Lestinksy 42pts, 60s
5. Haruo Kimura 42 pts, 121.5s
6. Fruzina Biro 42pts, 173
10. John Kewley GBR 41pts, 108.5s
29. Ian Ditchfield GBR 38pts, 165s
60. Dick Keighley GBR 26pts, 369.5s

World Temp-O Trophy (111 competitors):
1. Martin Jullum 317s
2. Antti Rusanen 337s
3. Lars Jacob Waaler 349s
30. John Kewley 762s
61. Ian Ditchfield 1013s
74. John Crosby 1161s
90. Anne Hinkling 1299s
93. Anne Braggins 1341s
96. Dick Keighley 1363s

[cbg]

Well done John, that's looks like some serious mental stress!

[Scott]

4th team (and not far down at all) seems like a strong performance to me - good work

Here's hoping it's laid the foundations for some medals on home terrain next year

[JK]

CBG: thanks - pretty stressful on the brain, but after Day 1 of O-Ringen (31 controls + 3 timed controls) [all correct!] it seemed quite short. At least I didn't come in > 5 mins late like in Trondheim and throw away 2 points.

I was a bit disappointed on Day 2 with a couple of the controls that I didn't do well at (being in 3rd place overnight added some stress! In fact check out the Day 1 rankings to see how many of the top 10 stayed there for Day 2, I held it together better than most).

Thanks Scott: getting on the World Champs podium was great. All 3 of us had made what we consider were silly mistakes so it could so easily have been a medal, but then again like Foot-O, Trail-O will always have a bit of "what if" or "if only" - and the teams above us would all be the same.

I'll worry about 2012 when I see the Selection criteria as I'll miss one of the 3 selection events as I'll be planning it - now that doesn't happen in many sports!

JK