Hosts again lead the way at WMOC
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Australia
again led the way at the long distance finals at the World Masters Orienteering
Championships today. While the host nation did not dominate to quite the same
extent as they did in the sprint, they still took home six gold medals. Warren
and Natasha Key both repeated their sprint victories in M50 and W35
respectively, as did Hermann Wehner (M85) and Jenny Bourne (W55). Paul Pacque
went one better than the sprint in taking out M55, while the final Australian
gold medallist was Cath Chalmers in W40. The hosts also took six silvers and
three bronzes.
Non-European nations dominated the women’s classes, winning
eight out of ten, with Australia
and the United States
taking three each. The three American gold medals matched Sweden’s
performance.
Two classes which were won by Europeans provided two of the
best races. In M40 Russia’s Alexey Marozov led five within two minutes of the
lead, while M45 was even better, with five within 1.11. Per Magnusson’s loss of
52 seconds at the fourth-last dropped him from first to fourth and was the
exact gap to German gold medallist Michael Thierolf. W50 was also an excellent
contest with 34 seconds covering the medallists (who were only separated by one
second at halfway). Natalia Deconescu took out one of the three American golds,
while Liz Abbott held off a fast-finishing Carey Nazzer for silver.
The gold medallists were:
M35 Carsten
Jorgensen (DEN) M40 Alexey Morozov
(RUS)
M45 Michael
Thierolf (GER)
M50 Warren Key (AUS)
M55 Paul Pacque
(AUS)
M60 Andy Hemsted
(GBR)
M65 Rune Radestrom
(SWE)
M70 Rodrigo Slavins
(LAT)
M75 Sveinung
Bleivkin (NOR)
M80 Helmer Ekberg
(SWE)
M85 Hermann Wehner
(AUS)
W35 Natasha Key
(AUS)
W40 Cath Chalmers
(AUS)
W45 Pavlina
Brautigam (USA)
W50 Natalia
Deconescu (USA)
W55 Jenny Bourne
(AUS)
W60 Patricia Aspin
(NZL)
W65 Sharon Crawford
(USA)
W70 Birgitta Thunell
(SWE)
W75 Nesta Leduc
(CAN)
W80 Pella
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Story: Blair Trewin
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