European Ski Orienteering Championships: Sprint golds for Vlasova and Arnesson
Posted on | February 4, 2011 | Category: News
Two very experienced and successful ski orienteers demonstrated their class today with victories in the European Ski Orienteering Championships sprint. Tatiana Vlasova, Russia and Peter Arnesson, Sweden were today’s gold medal winners.
Vlasova, silver medallist in the long distance race two days ago, took the women’s sprint title by just 3 seconds from her compatriot Polina Malchinkova, who achieved her best-ever result in international ski orienteering. The bronze medal went to Josefine Engström, Sweden, who was 10 seconds down on the winner.
Arnesson’s win was more comfortable – a margin of 19 seconds to silver medallist Staffan Tunis, Finland. Olli-Markus Taivainen, Finland, long distance silver medallist on Wednesday, took the bronze a further 6 seconds down.
The Junior World Championships sprint produced exactly the same 6 medallists as in the long distance, plus Tuomas Kotro, Finland: there was a tie for the men’s bronze medal. Gold medallists this time were Tove Alexandersson, Sweden and Gleb Tikhonov, Russia.
Leading results, European Championships sprint
Women
1) Tatiana Vlasova RUS 16:07
2) Polina Malchikova RUS 16:10
3) Josefine Engström SWE 16:17
4) Hannele Tonna FIN & Marte Reenaas NOR 16:38
6) Tatyana Kozlova RUS 16:43
Men
1) Peter Arnesson SWE 17:04
2) Staffan Tunis FIN 17:23
3) Olli-Markus Taivainen FIN 17:29
4) Andrey Grigoryev RUS 17:32
5) Erik Rost SWE 17:33
6) Vadim Tolstopyatov RUS 17:36
Junior World Championships sprint medal winners
Women
Gold: Tove Alexandersson SWE 14:48
Silver: Barbro Kvåle NOR 15:07
Bronze: Marjut Turunen FIN 15:15
Men
Gold: Gleb Tikhonov RUS 16:52
Silver: Tuomas Kotro FIN 16:58
Bronze: Daniel Svensson SWE & Anton Sjökvist SWE 17:02
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