Ski Orienteering World Cup, Event 2: Sprint victories for Novikova and Veselov
Posted on | January 16, 2010 | Category: News
The first session of a busy day for the world’s leading ski orienteers ended with wins in the individual sprint race for Olga Novikova, now representing Kazakhstan, and home athlete Kiril Veselov. This afternoon there is a 2-person sprint relay.
Novikova’s win was by 1.8 seconds over the Russian Alena Chukareva, who achieved her best-ever result at top international level – she was Long distance Champion in the Junior World Championships in 2008. Third came the much-improved Swede Josefine Engström, almost 12 seconds slower than Chukareva. Yesterday’s winner Natalya Tomilova was fourth.
Kiril Veselov powered round the course 11.2 seconds quicker than Peter Arnesson, the experienced Swede who was second overall in the World Cup in 2008. Third in this race was another Russian, Vadim Tolstopyatov, 9 seconds slower than Arnesson. Olli-Markus Taivainen couldn’t maintain yesterday’s winning form and finished eleventh.
Home athletes dominated in both races, with 4 Russians in the first 6 in the men’s race and 3 in the first 6 in the women’s.
Leading results
Women
1. Olga Novikova KAZ 13:14,7
2. Alena Chukareva RUS 13:16,5
3. Josefine Engström SWE 13:27,4
4. Natalya Tomilova RUS 13:27,9
5. Marttiina Joensuu FIN 13:28,1
6. Olga Trifanova RUS 13:32,6
Men
1. Kiril Veselov RUS 13:03,0
2. Peter Arnesson SWE 13:14,2
3. Vadim Tolstopyatov RUS 13:23,2
4. Oyvind Watterdal NOR 13:27,4
5. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 13:28,7
6. Andrei Gruzdev RUS 13:30,0
For online results and live video please visit the organisers’ homepage .
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