WMOC: Sprint golds to thirteen nations
Posted on | August 8, 2016 | Category: Arena, News
Athletes from thirteen different nations have won gold medals in the WMOC Sprint Final which took place in the Old Town Quarter in Tallinn, Estonia today.
Fourty-two nations in all are represented at the Championships, which are being held in Estonia for the first time. Only one of today’s winners has held on to his crown from last year – Tzvetan Todorov from Bulgaria in M50. Both Ebba-Lisa Flyger, Sweden in W80 and Arvo Majoinen, Finland in M90 were class winners in 2014.
Closest result was in W60 where last year’s winner, Unni Strand Karlsen from Norway, was beaten by one second by the Czech athlete Alena Rosecka.
The oldest competitor at the Championships is Astrid Andersson, Sweden who has won ten gold medals in the past and is in her first year in W95. There are two competitors in W90 and seven in M90.
Astrid Andersson SWE, first-year W95 – 11th WMOC gold medal in Sprint Photo: WMOC
Tomorrow is a rest day; the Championships continue with the Long Distance qualification races on Wednesday and Thursday and the Final on Saturday. Full information including full Sprint results are on the event website www.wmoc2016.ee. The site carries live results during the races and video pictures on a Youtube link.
Sprint Champions 2016
W35 Galina Vinogradova RUS
W40 Annika Björk SWE
W45 Natasha Key AUS
W50 Airi Alnek EST
W55 Marje Viirmann EST
W60 Alena Rosecka CZE
W65 Maria Nordwall SWE
W70 Kari Timenes Laugen NOR
W75 Ilse Uus EST
W80 Ebba-Lisa Flyger SWE
W85 Vre Harzenmoser CZE
W90 Elvy Fredin SWE
W95 Astrid Andersson SWE
M35 Dmitry Mihalkin BLR
M40 Petteri Muukkonen FIN
M45 Thomas Jensen DEN
M50 Tzvetan Todorov BUL
M55 Stefan Bolliger CZE
M60 James Crawford GBR
M65 Raimo Hyyryläinen FIN
M70 Olli Lehtinen FIN
M75 Helmut Conrad GER
M80 Jaroslav Havlik CZE
M85 Atsushi Takahashi JPN
M90 Arvo Majoinen FIN
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