Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships: Sweden and Russia take First Golds
Posted on | January 25, 2005 | Category: News
Erik Rost, Sweden and Tatiana Kozlova, Russia were the first gold medal winners in the 2005 Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships being held in S-chanf, in the Engadin valley, Switzerland this week.
Rost’s win was by just 3 seconds ahead of the Russian Stanislav Cheha, with another Swede, Gustav Hall, taking the bronze medal a further 14 seconds behind. Kozlova enjoyed a more convincing victory, finishing 29 seconds faster than her compatriot Anastasia Kravchenko. A third Russian, Alena Trapeznikova, took the bronze medal, another 11 seconds down. There was then a gap of more than one minute – unusual in a sprint race – to the fourth-placed finisher, Emma Olofsson of Sweden. Full results can be seen on the event website, best accessed directly from the home page of the IOF website, www.orienteering.org.
This was the first-ever sprint race in the Junior World Championships, a good start to an intensive week of competition.
| Men: 2.9k, 50m climb, 13 controls | ||||||
| 1. | Erik Rost | SWE | 13.57 | |||
| 2. | Stanislav Cheha | RUS | 14.00 | |||
| 3. | Gustav Hall | SWE | 14.14 | |||
| 4. | Alexey Kojemyakin | RUS | 14.18 | |||
| 5. | Jouko Liuha | FIN | 14.32 | |||
| 6. | Pär Häggström | SWE | 14.41 | |||
| Women: 2.8k, 45m climb, 11 controls | ||||||
| 1. | Tatiana Kozlova | RUS | 14.55 | |||
| 2. | Anastasia Kravchenko | RUS | 15.24 | |||
| 3. | Alena Trapeznikova | RUS | 15.35 | |||
| 4. | Emma Olofsson | SWE | 16.38 | |||
| 5. | Kari Rommen Syvertsen | NOR | 16.40 | |||
| 6. | Anna Holmgren | SWE | 16.55 | |||
The elite sprint races over the same courses were won by Matti Keskinarkaus, FIN and Erja Jokinen, FIN.
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The Russian winner Tatiana Kozlova out in the forest |
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Theres Kläsi from Switzerland was a bit out of the just here. With a big snowfall a couple of days before the start of teh championships in S-chanf it was suddenly a lot of snow and very beautiful winter. |
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Winners Women Sprint: Russia took a triple with Anastasia Kravchenko (left), Tatiana Kozlova and Alena Trapeznikova. |
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Winners Men Sprint: Stanislav Cheha (left), Russia, Erik Rost, Sweden, and Gustav Hall, also Sweden. |
Photos: Erik Borg
Story: Clive Allen
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