Ultimax Stingers 5 Days
3rd - 7th January 2007, Orange, Australia.
The Ultimax Stingers
and Goldseekers OC, invite you to come and enjoy five days of high
quality and enjoyable orienteering in some of the best Granite Terrain
Australia has to offer. The courses will be set by the JWOC 2007 course
planners and will provide an excellent opportunity to prepare for the
Junior World Champs. All orienteers, be they Australian or from abroad,
will love the orienteering we have to offer.
Ultimax Stingers 5 Day - Day 2 & 3 Report
Friday, 5 January 2007
Day 2 of the Ultimax 5 days saw competitors
return to Kahli’s Rocks but venture into different terrain with a
different format. All classes had mass starts with ‘A’ classes also having
hageby style loops. That is two loops beginning and ending at central pivot
control with half the field doing each loop then swapping. The last 4 controls
were common allowing for a spectacular finish.
The
long first leg spread the 80+ men’s field with NZ’s Ross Morrison taking the
award for first there to the control. Many of the favourites were on the same looping and were
battling strongly until Julian Dent made a mistake taking Kerrin Rattray with
him. At this point Carsten Jorgensen took the lead opening up a gap over Dave
Shepherd and fellow Dane Rune Olsen. With a small lead Carsten chose the safe
route around the clearing to the second-last control and Dave and Rune pounced.
Dave was slightly ahead of Rune heading up to the last control while the spectators were
treated to a ding-dong battle. As they jumped the fence Rune drew alongside using
his superior speed and had the better approach to punch the last control first and
secure the victory. Carsten came in third with a trio of juniors taking 4th,
5th and 6th. Czech Jan Benes, Danish hopeful Christian
Bobach and Aussie JWOC gun Simon Uphill.
Susanne
Casanova looked set to take a comfortable victory in the women’s class with a 1
½ minute lead with three controls to go. It all came unstuck however when, at
the next control, an error allowed Norwegian Guro Flatekval to get a sniff of
the lead. The mistake seemed to dampen Susanne’s pace and Guro was able to
sneak ahead to finish three seconds ahead. Day 1 winner, Grace Elson, had a
break earlier in the race but got lost amongst the rocks and blew any chance of
a double. She showed her class however in recovering to third place. Jasmine
Neve was next with NZ’s Lizzie Ingham leading a big group to come 5th
ahead of Anna Sheldon.
Gumble
Creek played host to Day 3, a middle distance set by Dave Shepherd. Competitors
were immediately thrown into technical granite with low-visibility undergrowth and
it took some early victims. Julian Dent was out of the blocks fast and had the
lead before he made a two-minute error allowing Swede Mats Troeng to pounce. He
didn’t relinquish the lead and held on for a 30 second victory. Dent in second
was 1:15 ahead of current
Junior World Champion Saaren Bobach who was very fast but lost small amounts of
time at a number of controls.
Jasmine
Neve came out firing as she raced to the lead over the first three legs, it was
short lived though as she lost 40 seconds at the fourth dropping her down the
field. The ever present Grace Elson was there to take the lead and was looking
good for the win when a lapse in concentration cost her two minutes and Mali Fjogstad Nilsen flew
home for a 25 second victory
Results - Day 2
Results - Day 3 Spilts on Winsplits Dave Meyer
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