World Masters Orienteering Championships: Most golds to Finland in Long Distance Final
Posted on | August 13, 2016 | Category: Arena, News
Finland with seven and Sweden with six gained the biggest gold medal hauls in the twenty-three competitive classes in today’s Long Distance Final in Estonia. Gold medals went to eleven nations in all.
On a rainy morning, a number of the gold medalists won their classes by quite large margins; both W35 and M35 were won by more than 4 minutes, and the biggest margin was that of Birgitta Olsson, Sweden who was the fastest by 6.17 in W75. Closest race was in M65 where Tapio Peippo, Finland beat the Swiss athlete Pekka Marti by just 15 seconds.
Nine competitors (shown by a * in the results list below) won both the Sprint and the Long in this year’s Championships. In W95 the oldest competitor in the Championships, Astrid Andersson from Sweden, completed her course in a very good time. Four competitors (shown with #) were also class winners in last year’s Long Final.
Next year’s World Masters is in New Zealand in late April, and will be held as part of The World Games.
Long Distance Champions 2016
W35 Elli Virta FIN
W40 Irita Pukite LAT
W45 Natasha Key AUS *
W50 Annika Viilo FIN #
W55 Marja Viirmann EST *
W60 Lidia Shorokhova RUS
W65 Tamara Ovsiannikova RUS
W70 Kari Timenes Laugen NOR *
W75 Birgitta Olsson SWE #
W80 Ebba-Lisa Flygar SWE *
W85 Lisa Hedström SWE
W90 –
W95 Astrid Andersson SWE *#
M35 Dmitry Mihalkin BLR *
M40 Petteri Muukkonen FIN *#
M45 Johan Pettersson SWE
M50 Oleg Anuchkin ITA
M55 Håkan Eriksson SWE
M60 Rolf Lund DEN
M65 Tapio Peippo FIN
M70 Risto Wessman FIN
M75 Helmut Conrad GER *
M80 Rune Carlsson SWE
M85 Pentti Pelkonen FIN
M90 Arvo Majoinen FIN *
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