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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Norway and Sweden sprint selection races
Norway and Sweden had sprint selection races today. I looked at the results a bit. A few notes:
Alvdal IL hosted the races. The Norwegians and Swedes ran different courses. I wonder why they didn't just use one set of courses.
Some older runners had very good results. Hakan Eriksson (44, I think) finished 2nd behind Niclass Jonasson. I hope Sweden picks Eriksson for the WOC. Ragnhild Bente Andersen was 4th among the Norwegian women. I'm not sure how old RBA is, but she must be close to 40.
This looks good for fans of North American orienteering:
All of those Norwegians have run World Champs. It really looks good to see Sandy H-J in front of them.
As an O' fan, I like to see orienteers with web pages running well. Among the best results of web-page-maintaining orienteers: Anne Margarete Hausken 1st Norwegian; Emma Engstrand 1st Swede; Oystein Kvaal Osterbo 2nd Norwegian; and Mats Troeng 3rd Swede.
posted by Michael |
9:21 PM