Junior World Orienteering Championships – Ida Bobach breaks medals record
Posted on | July 4, 2011 | Category: News
Ida Bobach strives towards winning another two gold medals in these Junior World Championships.
Photo: Erik Borg
A new record has been set for the number of medals won by a single person at the Junior World Championships. Ida Bobach won gold for the second day in succession in today’s long distance race, and now has ten medals in all, six of them gold, overtaking the record previously held by Olav Lundanes, Norway and Minna Kauppi, Finland. Ida’s compatriot Emma Klingenberg won her second silver medal of these Championships.
Ida won comfortably, finishing 1.28 quicker than Emma. Third was the very experienced Swede Tove Alexandersson, a further 46 seconds down.
The men’s race was won by the Norwegian Yngve Skogstad, his first medal at this level. His victory was by a convincing margin too – 1.34 ahead of the Austrian Robert Merl. The sprint gold medallist Lucas Basset, France, took the bronze medal today, 13 seconds slower than Merl.
Tuesday is a rest day; the middle distance qualification races are on Wednesday and the middle distance final is on Thursday.
Leading results
Women
1) Ida Bobach DEN 55:23
2) Emma Klingenberg DEN 56:51
3) Tove Alexandersson SWE 57:37
4) Natalia Chepaeva RUS 60:54
5) Anna Närhi FIN 61:14
6) Aušrine Kutkaite LTU 61:21
Men
1) Yngve Skogstad NOR 68:49
2) Robert Merl AUT 70:23
3) Lucas Basset FRA 70:36
4) Florian Howald SUI 72:03
5) Pavel Kubát CZE 72:17
6) Gleb Tikhonov RUS 73:29
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