ULD and European champs Cross Country

Last weekend 2 big competitions in the national and international field took place. In Belgium we had the ULD in Brussels and in Turkey the European championship cross country took place.

At the European championship we had quite some orienteers selected themselves. In the senior men category we had Kasper Fosser (NOR) on a 27^th place, Anreas Bock Bjoernsen 36^th (DEN) and Martin Regborn 44^th (SWE) in a very strong field. There were also some juniors with high expectations in the Swiss camp with Loïc Berger (brother of…) finishing 19^th and Matthieu Bührer on a 32^th place. Another fast junior was Filip Jancik (SVK) but he only finished 93^th but it wasn't his day. Peter Molloy represented Great Brittain in U23 and finished 32^th. Finally Julia Rosen, member of well known OKS represented Sweden in U20 women finished 58^th. Furthermore we had some great results by the Belgian runners, especially in the senior classes with silver and bronze in the team competition for the men and women respectively. Results

On the ultra-long distances in Brussels we had the expected thrilling fight between the 4 best teams. In the end Arnaud Mazy & Mathis Brouwier took the win before Rune de Clerq & Corneel Casier. On a third place we had Lennert Lens & Nico Ceunen. Wouter Leeuws twisted his ankle so he had to abandon the race, Evert kept going and finished just behind the winners but was logically disqualified because he finished without a team mate. Results

Arnaud Mazy

In the moyen distance we had a win for Willem Bakelants & Liam Thiels with a clean and fast race. On second place we had the other favourites Louis & Oscar Bourgeois with a race with too much technical errors. On Strava Oscar wrote: “ca m’avait pas manqué la CO. The third place got taken by Kim Jansen & Jan Oeyen.

On the shortest distance the win got taken by 2 young promising juniors Tim Lemy Storme & Regis Vanschuytbroeck.

Liam Thiels

This weekend Thor will go (together with a lot of other Belgian orienteers) to Fontainebleau for a training camp. In Flanders we have a night competition in Dilsenerbos on Friday and a regional competition at De Beeltjens on Sunday. Next week we have another exciting competition in the Forest Cup with the 3th stage. Will Magalie Verstrepen (D21) and Jeroen Hoekx (H21) try to defend their first place our will most elite runners take rest for the Sylvester the week after?