Krier is the first to beat Olle Kärner in Belgium

Since a month the Estonian national team runner, Olle Karner, started living in Belgium. Up to now he won all races, where he showed up at the startline. But today, at the national middle distance race in Arlon, it turned out differently.

No starttime problems, a technical area, a nice map and use the compass were the ingredients from todays competition. Jean-francois Krier already performed strong some months ago during the Transforestiere 2011 in this same area. Last week, during the long distance champs, he suffered physically during the 2nd part of the race. But today he showed that he can handle a middle distance in his favourit terrain. He ran a really good race and succeeded to take the victory. He was almost 2 minutes faster than the Estonian favourit, Karner. Desmond Franssen finished in 3rd position, 7 seconds behind Karner. Michel Bastin became 4th, Francois Van der Ouderaarde 5th and the revelation from last week, Benjamin Anciaux, became 6th.
An other favourit, Andrei Pijak, show up in his new-Swedish-team-outfit (from OK Tisaren). But he had an offday and finished in 13th position.


Jean-francois Krier during the Belgian relay champs 2011

In womens class some good runners were absent. It was Asub who dominated this class with a victory (Béatrice De Longueville) and a 3rd position (Vinciane Mulpas). Véronique Bastin lost the close fight for the victory and came in as 2nd today.

Results
Splits
Map (with routechoices Desmond Franssen)
Map (with routechoices Michel Bastin)