World Cup Finals: Impressive victory for Tove Alexandersson
Posted on | October 1, 2011 | Category: News
Helena Jansson, Tove Alexandersson and Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul celebrate their success.
Photo: Erik Borg
Still a junior, Tove Alexandersson turned out in the senior ranks for Sweden today and won the middle distance race in the final round of the World Cup by 1 minute and 29 seconds. Thierry Gueorgiou followed up his brilliant World Championships form with a narrow win over Daniel Hubmann.
Tove Alexandersson has already shown that she can be up with the best seniors, and today was perhaps her best-ever result in her short orienteering career. Helena Jansson, also Sweden, was second and Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul, Norway took a very creditable third place. Annika Billstam, leader in the women’s standings before this race, finished fifteenth and now leads by only 45 points (with double points awarded in the final Sprint tomorrow).
Thierry Gueorgiou won by 13 seconds over World Cup leader Hubmann, and Hubmann’s fellow countryman Fabian Hertner was third. Hubmann still leads the standings by a very comfortable 128 points.
Further reports on the middle distance race are in the ‘Around the Arena’ section, lower on this Home Page.
Leading results
Women
1. Tove Alexandersson SWE 33.16
2. Helena Jansson SWE 34.45
3. Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul NOR 34.50
4. Minna Kauppi FIN 34.59
5. Linnea Martinsson SWE 35.43
6. Dana Brozkova CZE 35.46
Men
1. Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 35.52
2. Daniel Hubmann SUI 36.05
3. Fabian Hertner SUI 36.43
4. Pasi Ikonen FIN 36.46
5. Peter Őberg SWE 36.56
6. Baptiste Rollier SUI 37.10
Leading World Cup standings
Women
1. Annika Billstam SWE 425
2. Helena Jansson SWE 380
3. Maja Alm DEN 330
4. Dana Brozkova CZE 327
5. Merja Rantanen FIN 325
6. Lena Eliasson SWE 318
Men
1. Daniel Hubmann 588
2. Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 460
3. Matthias Merz SUI 385
4. Pasi Ikonen FIN 308
5. Matthias Müller SUI 280
6. Matthias Kyburz SUI 271
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