Final day of WOC.
After a week of orienteering the WOC week has come to an end.
The relay today will see Jeremy leading out the South African team followed by Nicholas with Michael listed as the final runner. Starting at 13h30 Jeremy hopes to better Michaels' performance from last year before handing over to Nick.
live coverage is available at http://www.woc2012.ch/en/live-centre.html from 13h30 SA time.
The long qualification saw good runs from both Nicholas ad Jeremy. Jeremy achieving his best ever result in the long distance and Nicholas happy with his run. The points allocated no longer attract an additional 5% for being a WOC qualifier, and therefore some of the results appear not as good in comparison as they were on the day.
The middle distance however was a disaster for all three runners. The third of the qualifying races in consecutive days, Jeremy was battling with fatigue, and the terrain was much tougher than anticipated. Even the winning times were longer than the organizers had predicted. 'This is my worst world ranking run in 8 years.' says Nicholas Mulder. Perhaps a longer training week in the terrain would have improved things ponders Mulder. Jeremy finished outside the points, but inside the overtime, and Michael scored 55 points, which he is very dissappointed about after 1145 in the sprint qualifier and 918 in the sprint final.
Michael is now the top ranked SA orienteer at 310 in the world. http://iof.6prog.org/WR_Athlete.aspx?aid=RSA32
All South African Runners are viewable here: http://iof.6prog.org/WR_Aths.aspx?how=F&fed=RSA
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The sa team were unfortunitly not allowed to start the relay with an incomplete team. a bit dissapointing.
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