Denmark was strong in the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships relay in Portugal on Saturday, fighting for gold in both classes. At the end, Anton Foliforov was able to secure men’s victory to Russia, with Lasse Brun Pedersen from Denmark finishing a half a minute later, but in the women’s class Denmark won the relay title before Finland on the second place.

Also Czech Republic had a good relay day: they won bronze in both women’s and men’s class, and gold in the Junior World MTB Orienteering Championships in both classes.

Leading results

Women

1) Denmark (Ann-Dorthe Lisbygd, Line Brun Stallkne, Rikke Kornvig) 2:56:56
2) Finland (Kaisa Pirkonen, Ingrid Stengård, Marika Hara) 3:01:46
3) Czech Republic (Barbora Chudikova, Hana La Carbonara, Martina Tichovsk) 3:01:58

Men

1) Russia (Ruslan Gritsan, Valeri Glukhov, Anton Foliforov) 2:45:34
2) Denmark (Bjarke Refslund, Erik Skovgaard Knudsen, Lasse Brun Pedersen) 2:46:09
3) Czech Republic (Radek Laciga, Jan Lauerman, Marek Pospisek) 2:48:10

Junior MTB Orienteering Championships

Women 20

1) Czech Republic (Martina Lamichova, Marie Brezinova, Magdalena Seifertova) 2:30:46
2) Russia (Tatiana Repina, Anastasia Bolshova, Olga Vinogradova) 3:02:03
3) Austria (Tamara Haindl, Julia Ritter, Christina Traint) 3:25:31

Men 20

1) Czech Republic (Kristof Bogar, Martin Tisnovski, Vojtech Stranski) 2:57:16
2) Russia (Mikhail Utkin, Grigory Medvedev, Petr Ryabinin) 3:02:01
3) Finland (Tuomo Lahtinen, Joakim Höstman, Samuel Pökälä) 3:02:29