No surprises in Worldcup

Different terrain but same winners in the World Cup in Norway today. In the womens class, it was once again 'Simone Niggli-Show'. Straight from the start she took the lead. And with amazing speed she overclassed her opponents. After 1/3th of the race she already caught up Heli Jukola with two minutes. Jukola was able to run at the same speed, wich resulted in a second place. Third spot was for the Russian Julia Novikova closely followed by Emma Engstrand.

Thierry Gueorgiou at World Cup 2006 - orienteeringtoday.com

The mens class was a different story. The whole race was a close fight between Novikov and Gueorgiou. On the second radio control, Novikov had a 30 seconds lead on Gueorgiou. But in the end it was once again Gueorgiou who won. Mats Haldin proved one more time his very good shape this season with a second place. Vice worldchampion Marc Lauenstein, became third.

The Belgian proud Fabien Pasquasy did not make his best race, but still finished on a respectable 41st place. With John Are Myhren on the 42th place, Belgium was again best in the Benelux. The other Belgians run a close race in the B-final. In the slipstream of Torben Wendler, Van gasse was the fastest of them with a 8th place. Joost Talloen was 9th and Christophe Bernard 13th, all finishing in nearly the same minute.

Men, A-final

1	Guerorgiou, Thierry	FRA	37:55	(20:35:55)
2	Haldin, Mats	FIN	39:10	(20:35:10)
3	Lauenstein, Marc	SUI	39:16	(19:27:16)
4	Föhr, Tero	FIN	39:19	(20:29:19)
5	Gonon, Francois	FRA	39:38	(20:33:38)
6	Renard, Damien	FRA	39:42	(20:23:42)

Women, A-final

1	Niggli, Simone	SUI	34:07	(20:13:07)
2	Jukkola, Heli	FIN	36:07	(20:13:07)
3	Novikova, Yulia	RUS	37:18	(20:12:18)
4	Engstrand, Emma	SWE	37:31	(20:04:31)
5	Brozkova, Dana	CZE	38:10	(20:07:10)
6	Riabkina, Tatyana	RUS	38:22	(20:11:22)

Results
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