Home victory for Kazakhstan in Sprint
Posted on | February 29, 2012 | Category: News
On a sunny but cold (-20°C) morning, home supporters were warmed by being able to celebrate victory for their own ski orienteering queen, Olga Novikova, in World Cup Sprint. She committed Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson to her first defeat in this international season, beating her by 1.4 seconds.
All the competitors enjoyed the fine skiing conditions and the technical courses with many small trails and route choices. Quite a lot of the top names made mistakes today, but the two winners, Olga Novikova and Andrey Grigoriev, Russia, had near-perfect races.
In the women’s race third place went to Josefine Engström, continuing her fine season. The rapidly improving Bulgarian Stanimir Belomazhev was second in the men’s race, 8.6 seconds down on Grigoriev, and another relatively new name, Norway’s Hans Jørgen Kvåle, was third, 9.3 seconds down on the winner.
The Kazakhstan round continues with a Long distance race with interval start.
Leading results
Women
1. Olga Novikova KAZ 17:18,3
2. Tove Alexandersson SWE 17:19,7
3. Josefine Engström SWE 17:21,6
4. Polina Malchikova RUS 18:02,8
5. Marjut Turunen FIN 18:05,3
6. Sonja Mörsky FIN 18:12,1
Men
1. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 15:45,0
2. Stanimir Belomazhev BUL 15:53,6
3. Hans Jørgen Kvåle NOR 15:54,3
4. Staffan Tunis FIN 15:57,3
5. Peter Arnesson SWE 16:09,9
6. Erik Rost SWE 16:17,5
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