Pasquasy zonder problemen naar finale

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Bart Delobel ging tot het uiterste, maar met twee foutjes van 10 seconden was de finaleplaats gaan vliegen. Ook de andere belgen haalden het niet.
... in which Fabien Pasquasy "took it easy" and won with a 17:51 gap to number 2.
As Fabien indicated, the area was "nice and tricky": the southern area of the map was unmapped before, and was a typical Ardennes style valley. The northern part of the map was already used for the Belgian Championship Long Distance in 2006 and had detailed vegetation, much like the maps used for the Belgian 3 days (also the JEC 2008 maps).
Both areas were difficult, as can be seen on Fabien's map.
As is fashionable these days, most runners received advice from their coaches before the race to start jogging as soon as a mistake was made, since the terrain was obviously too technical and when looking at the splits, it almost seems like everyone made a mistake towards control one, except for Fabien. Reality, of course, was slightly different. Even if you are able to run a good leg, Fabien invariably is 30 seconds faster. Even though most Flemish runners never trained better before than the previous months, everywhere Fabien takes one step, they need two. We are anxiously checking our spam folder for "leg enlargement" proposals, in vain.
Fabien was one of the last runners to start. After our race, we were discussing what time he would be able to run today and our conclusion was somewhere in the low 1h30's. When he arrived, we thought he ran only a small part of the race and took it easy on that part. Wrong.
The battle for the second place was more interesting and was eventually won by Christophe Bernard, who was 2,5 minutes faster than number 3, Jan Oeyen.
In the women's class, Greet Oeyen also confirmed that she's ready for WOC, since she was 7 minutes faster than Aline Hermans and Severine Vandermeulen.
Etienne Van Gasse has been injured for the last month. The national event was going to be a test to see if he was able to run normally again. It does not look that way. He might, however, still be able to run the sprint distance.
Pictures: http://www.orientering.se/
Results: www.gmok.nu/jwoc2008
Johan Runesson (picture: orientering.se)
Wouter Leeuws
C-final men:
1. Jacek Morawski 20.37
2. Matjaz Stanfel 22.38
3. Wouter Leeuws 23.16
8. Gilles Deneyer 25.54
15. Jeremy Genar 28.19
Map A-final men
Map A-final women
More information about the Middle final (results, maps,...)
Tijdens de kwalificatieloop voor de middenafstand op JWOC wisten de Belgische dames zich beiden te kwalificeren voor de A-finales van morgen.
In de C-omloop eindigde Miek Fabré 13e op 5 minuten van winnares Jenny Lönnkvist, die de tegenstand op een hoopje liep. Elisabeth Henkes was 20 seconden trager in dezelfde omloop en werd daarmee 16e.
Ze zorgen hiermee voor de eerste A-finale op de middenafstand sinds Thomas van der Kleij in Zwitserland 2005.
In de herenreeks werd de door blessures geteisterde Jochen Verdeyen 32e in de C omloop, op 6:42 van de winnaar, 2:26 van de A-finale. Hij mag hiermee morgen de B finale lopen.
De rest van het team loopt de C finale. Jeremy Genar werd 49e in de C omloop, Wouter Leeuws 52e in de A omloop en Gilles De Neyer 55e in de B omloop. Ze verslikten zich kennelijk in het moeilijke Zweedse terrein. Het is dan ook uitkijken naar de commentaren achteraf.
Het Franstalige landsgedeelte schrijft over JWOC op de FRSO-site. De VVO selectie gebruikt de VVO-site.
Kaarten en uitslagen zijn ook al terug te vinden. Die van de Dames C-omloop echter op moment van schrijven niet.