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 5 Days, Day 4
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Olav Lundanes
today showed why he is one of the favourites to take gold at the Junior World
Champs at Dubbo in July. He dominated the Men’s class, winning by a huge six
and a half minutes. The course was long distance and it certainly was tough
with many of the field not completing the course and Among those that did not
many had ‘clean’ runs. One of those few was Lundanes, he was happy with his run
commenting it was error free. It certainly sends a warming to the juniors out
there that he is comfortable in Australian granite after only 4 runs. Mats
Troeng did challenge him during the course taking a small lead between controls
8 and 12. A mistake on the leg 12th slowed him down and he followed
this with another large error at the 20th. Carsten Jorgensen slotted
into second with a run punctuated with a number of small errors that prevented
him winning. Troeng was third. Simon Uphill continued his good form with a
strong fourth place.
Grace
Elson prevented a Norwegian double when she won her third race of week. Her
performance was as dominant as Lundanes’. The margin of five minutes was
steadily built over the race and she held the lead from the third control
onwards. Yesterday’s winner Mali Fjogstad Nilsen was second after a few hiccups
during the course, her main time loss was on the long leg where she dropped two
minutes to Elson. Ida Maire Naas Bjaargul had her best result of the week so
far finishing third. The European’s results have steadily improved over the
course of the 5 days showing their adaptation to the Aussie terrain. The week
following the 5 days will be a training camp based in Orange and Canberra. This will
give them ample opportunity to become granite confident.
The
NSW Stingers would like to thank the support of all their sponsors including
Ultimax socks, The Robin Hood Hotel , Run for Your Life – running magazine,
AROCSPORT and Basil & Jean Baldwin’s vineyard, Fourjay Farms.
Splits/Results Results on Winsplits
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