Ski Orienteering World Cup: Lamov continues in winning form
Posted on | January 22, 2014 | Category: News
Andrey Lamov on the way to the first control.
It was a Russian double in the first World Cup race over Middle distance at Orsa Grönklitt, Sweden today. Tatyana Rvacheva got the better of home athlete Tove Alexandersson with a 56-second victory in the women’s race, whilst in the men’s it was another win for Andrey Lamov, this time by 30 seconds over Hans Jørgen Kvåle, Norway.
Rvacheva was fastest almost from the start. At a little under half-way she led by 44 seconds, with Finland’s Sonja Mörsky second and Tove Alexandersson 4 seconds slower in third place. At the finish these placings were reversed, with Mörsky having dropped 49 seconds on Alexandersson after the radio control.
Lamov was fastest overall after control 4. At the radio point he was 24 seconds ahead, with Hans Jørgen Kvåle second and Staffan Tunis, Finland third, 27 seconds down. Home athlete Peter Arnesson came through strongly in the second half of the course to finish third.
Tomorrow (Thursday) there are two races: a Sprint prologue (estimated winning times 14 minutes, on a 1:5,000 scale map) followed later by a chasing start shortened Middle distance (35 minutes, 1:10,000). Only the chasing start race results count for World Cup points.
Pictures from today’s race may be found in the picture gallery accessible through the link http://old.orienteering.org/images/main.php?g2_itemId=2271
Leading results
Women, 8.1 km / 60 m climb
- Tatyana Rvacheva RUS 37:32
- Tove Alexandersson SWE 38:28
- Sonja Mörsky FIN 39:13
- Juliya Tarasenko RUS 39:43
- Anastasia Kravchenko RUS 39:50
- Josefine Engström SWE 40:25
Men, 10.4 km / 100 m climb
- Andrey Lamov RUS 42:39
- Hans Jørgen Kvåle NOR 43:09
- Peter Arnesson SWE 43:45
- Stanomir Belomazhev BUL 43:48
- Lars Hol Moholt NOR 44:01
- Erik Rost SWE 44:12
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