Results WC Qualification Race

Todat the Worldcup finally started. The first competition was a sprint qualifciation race in Finland. The men run today, in 3 qualification heats, a track from 3km. The distance of the women race was 2,5km. Results are visible below.

The Belgian results: no one is qualified for A-final. Fabien Pasquasy was very close, but 8'' too slow (he run the fastest time on 4 different legs). But pitty, he made also a few mistakes of 10'' each time. Also Etienne Vangasse run 2 fastest leg-times, but made a big mistake to his 3th control. Here he lost 2'10 and his A-final! Now they have to try te get in top5 in B-final, if they want to run a A-final in the 2nd WC-race in Norway. But that won't be easy, because in this case they have to beat runners like Martin Johansson, Jonne Lakanen, Oystein Kristiansen, Kaas Carl Waaler, Tomas Dlabaja, Marc Lauenstein, Stig Alvestad, Tue Lassen and Olle Kärner (all of them will run B-final).

The women A-final will start at 17.15, the men A-final will start at 18.45 (the favourits will start at the end ofcourse). Afterwards the B-finals will take place.

Women:
Heat A:
1 Paula Iso-Markku 12:01
2 Minna Kauppi 12:09 +8
3 Sara Gemperle 12:12 +11
4 Emma Engstrand 12:21 +20
5 Paula Haapakoski 12:24 +23
6 Marianne Andersen 12:26 +25

Heat B:
1 Simone Niggli-Luder 10:57
2 Helena Jansson 11:00 +3
3 Dana Brozkova 11:24 +27
4 Seline Stalder 11:37 +40
5 Elin A-Skantze 11:47 +50
6 Pippa Whitehouse 11:50 +53

Heat C:
1Lena Eliasson 11:18
2 Heli Jukkola 11:38 +20
3 Sirkka-Liisa Huusari 11:46 +28
4 Julia Novikova 11:49 +31
5 Maria Bergkvist 11:50 +32
6 Lina Persson 11:57 +39

Men:
Heat A:
1 Audun Hultgreen Weltzien 12:19
2 Mårten Boström 12:32 +13
3 Jon Duncan 12:34 +15
4 Michal Smola 12:42 +23
5 Valentin Novikov 12:44 +25
6 Anders Holmberg 12:48 +29
35 Joost Talloen 15:38 +3:19

Heat B:
1 Thierry Gueorgiou 12:17
2 Emil Wingstedt 12:39 +22
3 Jani Lakanen 12:45 +28
4 Vesa Taanila 12:51 +34
Graham Gristwood 12:51 +34
6 Mattias Millinger 12:59 +42
Baptiste Rollier 12:59 +42
19 Fabien Pasquasy 13:28 +1:11

Heat C:
1 Mats Haldin 12:30
2 Jonas Pilblad 12:46 +16
3 Jan Troeng 12:47 +17
4 Jarkko Huovila 12:51 +21
5 Roman Efimov 12:58 +28
6 Claus Bloch 13:03 +33
34 Gasse Etienne Van 15:28 +2:58

All results
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