World Cup Finals, France

[SIman]

The results of the Sprint are coming in OK - to http://www.wcup2006live.fr/live_S_W.html

[mharky]

Women:

1) Heli Jukkola FIN 17:23
2) Emma Engstrand SWE 17:30
3) Sara Gemperle SUI 18:00

19) Helen Bridle 19:38
23) Mhairi Mackenzie 20:28
27) Rachael Elder 21:03
30) Sarah Rollins 21:16
32) Jo Stevenson 21:20
33) Pippa Whitehouse 21:26

[SIman]

1 GUEORGIOU Thierry 16:03
2 HUBMANN Daniel 16:12
3 HUOVILA Jarkko 16:43
20 GRISTWOOD Graham 17:56
23 DUNCAN Jon 18:02
32 BRICKHILL-JONES David 18:28
48 CHEPELIN Oleg 19:21
53 FRASER Scott 19:42
63 STRAIN Murray 20:43

[HOCOLITE]

Results on men and women a little different to the norm, what sort of terrain is it?

[mat-d]

Very technical terrain...
...probably the best orienteers for the job must be really technically capable (and probably from around the yorkshire area... )

Some grand performances considering the crazy conditions. Well done all!

[Ed]

Sprint sounds a bit different to the middle:

Sprint Final : in a park on a slope, with two distinct parts : one open and one wooded on a slope side.

compared with

Middle Distance Qualification : two different areas: one contains a volcanic lava flow with detailed contours and one faster area in a beech zone. Average density of footpaths.

which in reality looked like this

[mikey]

Middle Distance Qualification : two different areas: one contains a volcanic lava flow with detailed contours and one faster area in a beech zone. Average density of footpaths.

which in reality looked like this

So, a bit like Thetford Chase then. EA orienteers would have excelled on this.

[Meat Market]

one contains a volcanic lava flow with detailed contours

Will there be liquid hot MAGMA too?? Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxcellent...

[ifititches]

these are very long times coming in on the live results, presumably runners are seeded with tthe fastest last? (see Simone is last out of on Women's anyway)

just trying to catch up on this competition,so another naive question, do GBR officially send a team or do top orienteers elect to go themselves (or not as case may be)?

[SIman]

these are very long times coming in on the live results, presumably runners are seeded with tthe fastest last? (see Simone is last out of on Women's anyway)

just trying to catch up on this competition,so another naive question, do GBR officially send a team or do top orienteers elect to go themselves (or not as case may be)?

There are some very long times. I wonder if windblow is an issue.

The runners are seeded by IOF ranking so times should get faster. This is a GBR team, selected by BOF.

[ifititches]

Thanks SIman, looks like a good run from Mhairi then, but some of these 160 minute runs from nationally selected teams must mean it's very rough out there!

[ifititches]

OK, so Simone 2 minutes faster than anyone else to first control; some good result watching coming up..

[SIman]

Women probably finished now

1 NIGGLI-LUDER Simone 75:08 (1)
2 KAUPPI Minna 79:12 (2)
3 ENGSTRAND Emma 82:30 (3)

20 BRIDLE Helen 96:39 (20)
23 MACKENZIE Mhairi 97:52 (23)
34 STEVENSON Jo 108:03 (34)
36 ROLLINS Sarah 108:47 (36)
38 ELDER Rachael 110:18 (38 )
42 O'DONOVAN Toni 113:41 (42)
43 WHITEHOUSE Pippa 114:04 (43)

[ifititches]

continuing my soliloquy.. Theirry is flying, and good another good run from Jon
anyone else watching?

oops. I see you are SIman!

[graeme]

French were rather sure Thierry would win by a large margin. Probably only 4 mins, as Novikov and Lakinen are on board with him. Hott Johansen appears to have missed the train - oops.

Kauppi managed to recatch Simone, so another 4min margin there since Marianne Anderson missed out - these Norwegians really need to learn to read the timetables

Choo choo!

Graeme