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Ski Orienteering World Cup: first win for Alexandersson, second for Lamov

Posted on | January 18, 2014 | Category: News

Tove Alexandersson was the fastest woman in the forest today. Photo: Erik Borg

Tove Alexandersson, Sweden enjoyed her first success in this season’s World Cup in the mass start Middle distance race today, the first race in the Cup’s second round. The Russian Andrey Lamov, leader in the World Cup standings, won the men’s race after being in front throughout.

Early leader in the women’s race of 8.2 km was the Russian Yuliya Tarasenko, but both she and Tove Alexandersson lost a lot of time up to the 3.0 km mark at which point Alexandersson was 15th, 3 minutes down on the new leader Tatyana Rvacheva who won all the individual races in the first round. Rvacheva still led after 5.0 km, but the situation was dramatically changed after 6.3 km where Alexandersson had taken a lead that she gradually extended on her way to the finish. Rvacheva finished 1.10 down in second place, and there was then a big gap of 2.13 to third placer Hana Hanciková, Czech Republic.

Andrey Lamov enjoyed a controlled race where he never looked in serious danger of being caught. He had built up a lead of 1.16 at the 5.0 km mark, and this was whittled down to 13 seconds at the end after Lamov lost a little time on one of the final sections of the race, his closest contender being home athlete Hans Jørgen Kvåle. Norway impressed with four finishers in the first six.

The next race is tomorrow, a Sprint at the same venue.

Stories and pictures from today’s race will be posted later today in the Around the Arena section accessed from the foot of this Home Page.

Leading results

Women

  1. Tove Alexandersson SWE 44:20
  2. Tatyana Rvacheva RUS 45:30
  3. Hana Hanciková CZE 47:43
  4. Sonja Mörsky FIN 47:48
  5. Audhild Bakken Rognstad NOR 47:51
  6. Magdalena Olsson SWE 47:52

Men

  1. Andrey Lamov RUS 49:40
  2. Hans Jørgen Kvåle NOR 49:53
  3. Ove Sætra NOR 50:03
  4. Lars Moholdt NOR 50:39
  5. Erik Rost SWE 50:40
  6. Øyvind Watterdal NOR 50:51

 

 

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