Belgian runners @ World cup (NOC)

In Finland the first world cup races of the season will take place. Yesterday the runners participated at the NOC long distance race and also 1 Belgian runner was present. Thomas van der Kleij didn't run his best race of the season. He made some mistakes (like many other runners) and finished after 2h17'.



With this result, he was worth a 61th position. But in the resultslist he's disqualified. After checking his splittimes and tracktrack-route, we can't find any mispunched control. So probably he took the butterfly in the wrong direction?

On the gps tracking, you can review the whole race from Thomas again and analyse every little mistake that he made. When he arrived at the butterfly, we can see that he started in the wrong direction. He ran from control 11 immediately towards 24, but we also can see that he realized his mistake and turned back (changed his direction before punching). But maybe this was again the wrong direction?

Mistake of Thomas van der Kleij in the butterfly (click on the photo to enlarge)

Today the runners participated in the NOC relay competition. Sweden was outstanding and won 3 (H21, D21 and H20) out of 4 relay competitions. For Belgium only Thomas was present, so obviously there was no relay team.

Next week Fabien Pasquasy will join him for the real world cup races, so we look forward to their results in sprint (qualificiation and final) and middle distance.

Results long distance

Map long distance (Oystein Kvaal Osterbo)

Video review long distance (orientering.se webb-tv)

Results relay

Map relay (Oystein Kvaal Osterbo)

Video Noc relay (Swedish team)

An interesting link if you want to read more about NOC and WOC:

- orienteering.is: a great new websites with previews and articles written in English

- ultimate orienteering: interesting articles about NOC with inside information