Engström and Tunis head World Cup standings
Posted on | March 5, 2012 | Category: News
With 9 of the 12 individual races now completed, leaders in the Ski Orienteering World Cup standings are Josefine Engström, Sweden, and Staffan Tunis, Finland, with Russia’s Polina Malchikova and Andrey Grigoriev in second place.
Josefine Engström enjoyed very good results in the European Championships in Ukraine and the just-finished round in Kazakhstan. Engström has built up a lead of 58 points over Malchikova, but both will be looking over their shoulders at third-placed Tove Alexandersson, Sweden, who has completed in three fewer races because she chose to compete in the Junior World Championships in Ukraine. In the six World Cup races she has taken part in, she has won four and been second-placed twice.
Both Staffan Tunis and Andrey Grigoriev have performed consistently well in the two recent rounds. Grigoriev is only 22 points behind Tunis, so has a strong chance of catching him in the final round in Sweden. There is then a gap of 47 points down to Sweden’s Erik Rost in third place, whilst fourth-placed Hans Jørgen Kvåle, Norway, 10 points further down, has taken part in one race fewer than the others.
In the final individual standings it is a competitor’s ten best scores out of the twelve races which will count; the Final, an ultra-long distance race, counts double points.
In the Sprint standings, compiled from individual Sprint and Mixed Sprint Relay results, it is the same top three in the women’s class, whilst Peter Arnesson, Sweden is in third place in the men’s. In the Relay standings the order is the same in both women’s and men’s classes: Russia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway and Kazakhstan are the leading six teams.
Leading standings after three rounds
Women
1. Josefine Engström SWE 423
2. Polina Malchikova RUS 365
3. Tove Alexandersson SWE 340
4. Sonja Mörsky FIN 251
=5. Kajsa Richardsson SWE 238
=5. Carmen Strub SUI 238
Men
1. Staffan Tunis FIN 411
2. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 389
3. Erik Rost SWE 342
4. Hans Jørgen Kvåle NOR 332
5. Peter Arnesson SWE 322
6. Lars Hol Moholdt NOR 287
Sprint – women
1. Josefine Engström SWE 175
2. Polina Malchikova RUS 166
3. Tove Alexandersson SWE 162
4. Sonja Mörsky FIN 137
5. Olga Novikova KAZ 116
6. Carmen Strub SUI 115
Sprint – men
1. Staffan Tunis FIN 176
2. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 169
3. Peter Arnesson SWE 155
4. Erik Rost SWE 125
5. Hans Jørgen Kvåle NOR 123
6. Stanimir Belomazhev BUL 117
Relay – women
1. Russia 165
2. Sweden 136
3. Finland 125
4. Switzerland 64
5. Norway 43
6. Kazakhstan 42
Relay – men
1. Russia 158
2. Sweden 136
3. Finland 132
4. Switzerland 60
5. Norway 43
6. Kazakhstan 42
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