Runners Quota World Cup 2007

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map "Schootsheide" 2006
De eerste dag vond plaats op "Schootsheide" (Neeroeteren), een bos met steile flanken doortrokken met talrijke rechte paden. Baanlegger Bart Van De Moortel zorgde voor variatie van korte en lange benen, veel richtingswisselingen en wegkeuzes op de flanken.
In de H21 wist de Noor Jarl Magnus Berge meteen een grote kloof (meer dan 5 minuten) te slaan met de concurrentie. Sam Deferm (Borasca - baanlegger 2e dag) volgde op de tweede plaats, en de Zwitser Thomas Popp (OLG Chur)op de derde plaats. Bij de vrouwen in D21 namen de buitenlandse deelnemers eveneens meteen de leiding met Lena Gillgren (Zweden) en Kirti Rebane (Estland) op de eerste en tweede plaats. Miek Fabré (Omega) vervolledigde na een foutloze wedstrijd sterk het podium ondanks pijn aan de voet. In de traditionele sterke strijd in H40 haalde Bart Mellebeek (Hamok) zijn gram met op een kleine minuut Guido Verdeyen (Omega) en Guido Timmers (Hamok). Frans Laenen ging tekeer in de H45 en haalde in een sterke km-tijd de overwinning op dag 1. Traditiegetrouw waren er ook weer een groot aantal daginschrijvingen (53).
(English)This first day of the International Sylvester 5 days took place at "Schootsheide", a map with two hillside and a dense pathnetwork. In the mens 21 class, only few Belgian top runners started. So foreign runners could dominate this first day. Jarl Magnus Berge (photo) showed great shape winning by more then 5 minutes. The Norwegian from IL Tyrving lost some time at the third control, were there was a tricky vegetation border, but he did a steady performance later on the course. Sam Deferm from Borasca won the close battle for the second spot before Thomas Popp and Dries van der Kleij.
H21 , 8340 m , 165 m
1. BERGE Jarl Magnus NOR IL Tyrving 0:48:56
2. DEFERM Sam BEL Borasca 0:54:04
3. POPP Thomas SUI OLG Chur 0:54:24
4. VAN DER KLEIJ Dries BEL hamok 0:54:27
5. POUTIAINEN Harri FIN Turun Metsänkävijät 0:56:16
6. BIRGERSON Jonas SWE Malungs OK Skogsmårdarna 0:56:36Lena Gillgren(photo), the swedish girl from Stora Tuna won the womens 21 class. She was allmost 1 minute faster the Estonian Kirti Rebane. For the third place there was a fight between Miek Fabré and Greet Oeyen. The youngster from omega was 1'20" faster then the current number one in Belgium, Greet Oeyen.
The story continues..
D21 , 6450 m , 120 m
1. GILLGREN Lena SWE Stora Tuna 0:46:06
2. REBANE Kirti EST Saue Tammed 0:46:54
3. FABRÉ Miek BEL Omega 0:49:10
4. OEYEN Greet BEL hamok 0:50:31
5. TULLENEERS Veerle BEL Omega 0:51:32
6. STUCKI Fabienne SUI OLV Hindelbank 0:53:12
map H21
results
splits
thanks to Yves Briers and Dries van der Kleij
Orienteering poll 2006:
De Belgische sportman en sportvrouw van het jaar 2006 zijn reeds verkozen. Dus nu kan de orientatiewereld niet achterblijven en is de vraag: wie wordt internationaal de beste lo(o)p(st)er en beste junior van het afgelopen jaar.
Voor de “Orientatieprestatie van het jaar 2006” zijn de genomineerden: Hanny Allston, Thierry Gueorgiou, Holger Hott Johansen, Minna Kauppi, Jani Lakanen, Simone Niggli, Kajsa Nilsson, Valentin Novikov en Emil Wingstedt. Voor de “Junior van 2006” zijn de genomineerden: Hanny Allston, Søren Bobach, Signe Klinting, Tatiana Kozlova, Mikael Kristensson, Olav Lundanes, Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen, Anders Skarholt en Ingunn Hultgreen Weltzien.
Stemmen is mogelijk op: http://poll.worldofo.com/poll2006.html
As you probably already read, the elections for "Orienteering achievement of the year 2006" and the "Junior of the year 2006" started. The poll is organized by the two major sources for international orienteering news - the website World of O and the magazine Orienteering Today. The poll will be open in the following two categories from December 18th until January 18th.
Flemish Junior Team 2007:
De voorbereiding op JWOC 2008 te Zweden is begonnen. Omdat de JWOC volgend jaar plaats vindt in Australië en dit nogal vrij veel geld kost, is er besloten om te focussen op het juniorenwereldkampioenschap een jaar later in Zweden. Het voordeel is dat er dus veel langer en beter getraind kan worden naar dit evenement toe. Zo ziet het porgramma er vrij goed uit, met verschillende stages in wedstrijdspecifiek terrein. Enige nadeel is dat ze de ervaring van Australië gaan missen en dat de atleten uit 1987 een kans minder hebben om een JWOC te lopen. Hieronder een overzicht van de veschillende atleten: (opvallend: het grote Waalse talent Elisabeth Henkes komt ook onder de hoede van Stefan Thiels. Hij heeft haar zelfs geïntroduceerd bij OMEGA. Mogelijk is de strenger leeftijdsgrens bij de Waalse federatie hiervan de oorzaak?)
The Belgian junior team decided to pass over JWOC 2007 in Australia and to focus on the junior world championship one year later in Sweden. One of the main reasons for this decission is money, it's very expensive to travell to Australia. So it's smarter to train longer and more specific, and try to reach good results one year later in Sweden. The names of the flemmish junior team you can find below:
Women:
Fabré Miek
Henkes Elisabeth
Melis Elien
Sallaerts Saartje
Verdeyen Sien
Verschuren Sanne
Men:
Bruffaerts Jonathan
Deijgers Niel
Ducro Dennis
Genar Jeremy
Limborgs Yves
Leeuws Wouter
Michiels Yannick
Nijsten Tom
Pelckmans Adriaan
Verdeyen Jochen
Wallaert Kim
Discussion about the national championship planning
In de ploegencommissie wordt niet enkel vergaderd over de kritische berichten die op deze site gepost worden, maar er worden ook verschillende voorstellen gedaan. Een ervan gaat over de planning van de nationale kampioenschappen. Op dit moment liggen de kampioenschappen zeer verspreid over het ganse seizoen. Zo wordt in maart reeds begonnen met de eerste belangrijke afspraken, terwijl het Belgsich kampioenschap sprint pas in half oktober wordt gelopen. Zo worden atleten bijna verplicht om het ganse seizoen te presteren en wordt het moeilijk om echt te pieken. Daarom het voorstel van de ploegencommissie om de kampioenschappen te verzamelen in enkele weekends naar voorbeeld van de meer gerenomeerde orientatielanden..
Up to now, the belgian national championships are spread all over the season. The Middle distance is organised in march (25/03) and the national champ sprint takes place at the end of the season (15/10). So the belgian athletes have to be in good shape all the time, and that makes it difficult to peak. Now an important conservative commission made a surprising and renewing proposal to assemble alle the national champs in a few weekends. By example 2 weekends; first weekend (sprint and long distance) and second weekend (middle and relay). Personally, I agree with this proposal for less dispersal and more professionality.
Yesterday evening, one of the most important night-O events of Belgium took place in Lommel, close to the Dutch border. Teams for the relay consist of 3 runners, but with age limits on the second leg and at most one M21 runner. The competitions were of a really high level, with lots of surprises.
Most teams had their fastest runner in the mass start. Top runners like Bart Delobel, Joost Talloen (Omega) and the van der Kleij brothers (hamok) were joined by lesser known, but also very talented runners like Tomas Henriksson, Frans Laenen (Trol) and Bart Mellebeek (hamok). Delobel immediately took the lead, made some mistakes early on, but managed to finish with a 2,5 minute gap to the next team, Omega 4 with Joost Talloen. The next runners to arrive were Frans Laenen and Bart Mellebeek, followed by Tomas Henriksson and Dries van der Kleij. Mellebeek was really satisfied with his race: "My best night race ever", he said.
After the first leg, most top teams were still in the running for the win, with one notable exception: Hamok 3, with Thomas van der Kleij, slightly injured, lost a considerable amount of time at the 4th control (see below for a map). It would be tough for his teammates to help Thomas to win again after his two consecutive victories the last years.
The second leg was shorter, with only 4 km of race. This proved to be the decisive moment of the event. Jeremy Genar, local Catching Features hero, started in third position, after Miek Fabré and Bart van de Moortel. He ran a great race and passed Miek in the open area. There were no real surprises, except that Greet Oeyen brought one of the hamok teams back in sight of the top three.
The third leg would bring some excitement to the waiting crowd. Wim Vervoort, one of the elite runners of the '90's, started first, with a 2 minute gap to Dennis Ducro. Dennis started off fast and had Vervoort in his sights at control 4. There were 3 controls in that area, Vervoort picked the right one, Ducro followed him to the control, but then realized he needed one of the others. Later on he made another mistake at control 8, thereby losing his chances for the first place. This meant that the winner of this Night Relay was Trol 1 (Henriksson, Genar, Vervoort), in front of Omega 3 (Delobel, Fabré, Ducro). The third team to arrive was Borasca 1, but their last leg runner, Sam Deferm did not know that his teammate Noël Nijsten already mispunched a control during the first leg. The spectators had to wait quite a few minutes for the next runners to arrive. The third place was finally taken by Stefan Thiels, the Flemish junior coach for Omega 4 in a tight battle with Martin Beckers for hamok 1. Martin, however, mispunched a control, so his efforts during his leg were of no avail.
The next two teams were both hamok teams at places 4 and 5. No hamok teams made the top three this year, this comes as a surprise, and we've heard of plans to not let that happen again. Perhaps this was a side effect of organizing the event, with excellent course setting work by Wim Hoekx.
Op haar website vindt je ook haar doelen voor 2007 en verder in de toekomst:
2007
1. To win the World Orienteering Championships, Long Distance.
2. To defend my World Orienteering Championship Title, Sprint Distance.
3. To win the Orienteering World Cup Series.
4. To break the Cradle Mountain 82km Ultra Marathon record.
5. To win the Australian Mountain Running Championships.
6. To complete a marathon in under 3 hours.
Long term
1. To run for Australia at an Olympic Games in distance track or marathon.2. To compete for Australia at the World Cross-Country Championships.3. To win the World Mountain Running Championships.
Alvast één van haar doelen bereikt nog voor 2007 begonnen is. Schrijf maar op bij de favorieten voor 2012 in Londen.