2012 World Orienteering Championships

The 29th World Orienteering Championships was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 14 to 21 July 2012.[1][2]

World Orienteering Championships 2012
Host cityLausanne
Country Switzerland
Nations46
Opening14 July 2012 (2012-07-14)
Closing21 July 2012 (2012-07-21)
Websitewoc2012.ch

Medalists edit

Men edit

EventGoldSilverBronze
Sprint
details
Matthias Kyburz
 Switzerland
Matthias Merz
 Switzerland
Matthias Müller
 Switzerland
Middle distance
details
Edgars Bertuks
 Latvia
Valentin Novikov
 Russia
Fabian Hertner
 Switzerland
Long distance
details
Olav Lundanes
 Norway
Matthias Merz
 Switzerland
Edgars Bertuks
 Latvia
Relay
details
 Czech Republic
Tomáš Dlabaja
Jan Šedivý
Jan Procházka
 Norway
Magne Daehli
Carl Waaler Kaas
Olav Lundanes
 Sweden
Jonas Leandersson
Peter Öberg
Anders Holmberg

Women edit

EventGoldSilverBronze
Sprint
details
Simone Niggli-Luder
 Switzerland
Maja Alm
 Denmark
Annika Billstam
 Sweden
Middle distance
details
Minna Kauppi
 Finland
Tove Alexandersson
 Sweden
Tatyana Riabkina
 Russia
Long distance
details
Simone Niggli-Luder
 Switzerland
Minna Kauppi
 Finland
Annika Billstam
 Sweden
Relay
details
 Switzerland
Ines Brodmann
Judith Wyder
Simone Niggli-Luder
 Sweden
Annika Billstam
Helena Jansson
Tove Alexandersson
 Norway
Silje Ekroll Jahren
Mari Fasting
Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg

Participating countries edit

A total of 46 countries participated at this World Championships.[3]

Results edit

Sprint edit

The sprint finals were held on 14 July 2012 at Lausanne-Ouchy.[4]

Men's sprint edit

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Men (4.2 km)[1][4]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Matthias Kyburz  Switzerland15:32.0
Matthias Merz  Switzerland15:49.5
Matthias Müller  Switzerland15:59.0
4Scott Fraser  Great Britain16:11.2
5Andrey Khramov  Russia16:22.7
6Tuomo Mäkelä  Finland16:32.9
7Jonas Vytautas Gvildys  Lithuania16:33.8
8Zsolt Lenkei  Hungary16:39.5
9Søren Bobach  Denmark16:43.7
10Vojtìch Král  Czech Republic16:45.0
11Murray Strain  Great Britain16:46.1
12Anders Holmberg  Sweden16:49.9
13Jerker Lysell  Sweden16:51.2
14Ionut Zinca  Romania16:52.7
15Jonas Leandersson  Sweden16:59.2
16Tomáš Dlabaja  Czech Republic16:59.5
17Wojciech Kowalski  Poland17:02.5
18Vincent Coupat  France17:04.2
19Alexey Sidorov  Russia17:05.2
20Rasmus Thrane Hansen  Denmark17:07.7
21Robert Merl  Austria17:08.2
22Ádám Kovács  Hungary17:12.7
23Tuomas Tervo  Finland17:15.4
24Andreu Blanes Reig  Spain17:21.0
25Vilius Aleliunas  Lithuania17:28.1
26Jan Procházka  Czech Republic17:30.0
27Nicolas Simonin  Ireland17:35.2
28Alexander Lubina  Germany17:37.4
29Ulf Forseth Indgaard  Norway17:38.0
30Antonio Martínez  Spain17:42.2
31Yannick Michiels  Belgium17:43.1
32Julian Dent  Australia17:50.3
33Tim Robertson  New Zealand17:51.7
34Simonas Krepsta  Lithuania17:52.4
35Ivaylo Kamenarov  Bulgaria17:54.4
36Patrick Goeres  Canada17:54.7
36Ross Morrison  New Zealand17:54.7
38Dmitry Nakonechny  Russia17:55.4
39David Brickhill-Jones  Australia18:00.6
40Wolfgang Siegert  Austria18:01.2
41Robert Krüger  Germany18:11.0
42Klaus Schgaguler  Italy18:13.2
43Michael Crone  South Africa18:41.3
99Kiril Nikolov  Bulgariamiss 1 punch
99Frederic Tranchand  Francemiss 1 punch

Women's sprint edit

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Women (3.7 km)[1][4]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Simone Niggli-Luder  Switzerland15:43.7
Maja Alm  Denmark16:20.2
Annika Billstam  Sweden16:28.0
4Helena Jansson  Sweden16:30.2
5Rahel Friederich  Switzerland16:33.1
6Venla Niemi  Finland16:39.4
7Claire Ward  Great Britain16:49.4
8Lena Eliasson  Sweden16:56.9
9Lizzie Ingham  New Zealand17:07.2
10Silje Ekroll Jahren  Norway17:12.8
11Tessa Hill  Great Britain17:14.4
12Signe Klinting  Denmark17:18.2
13Shuangyan Hao  China17:25.4
14Fanni Gyurkó  Hungary17:33.6
14Marika Teini  Finland17:33.6
16Judith Wyder  Switzerland17:36.7
17Heidi Østlid Bagstevold  Norway17:37.1
18Iveta Duchová  Czech Republic17:39.0
19Ausrine Kutkaite  Lithuania17:44.9
20Alison Crocker  United States17:47.3
21Svetlana Mironova  Russia17:47.7
22Ursula Kadan  Austria18:01.2
23Anastasiya Tikhonova  Russia18:02.9
24Greta Knarston  New Zealand18:05.0
25Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg  Norway18:06.3
26Inga Kazlauskaite  Lithuania18:19.1
27Kim Geypen  Belgium18:26.9
28Ildikó Szerencsi  Hungary18:31.1
29Hanna Wisniewska  Poland18:33.8
30Daria Lajn  Poland18:35.1
31Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova  Bulgaria18:37.8
32Gabija Ražaityte  Lithuania18:39.9
33Sofia Haajanen  Finland18:46.9
34Mikiko Minagawa  Japan18:52.8
35Celine Dodin  France19:05.8
36Lea Vercellotti  France19:07.5
37Mingyue Zhu  China19:24.1
38Catherine Taylor  Great Britain19:29.4
39Amélie Chataing  France19:40.5
40Esther Doetsch  Germany20:03.7
41Yingwei Wang  China20:28.6
42Raquel Costa  Portugal21:19.7
43Nataliya Dimitrova  Bulgaria23:10.0
99Eva Jureníková  Czech Republicmiss 1 punch
99Annika Rihma  Estoniamiss 1 punch

Middle distance edit

The middle distance finals were held on 17 July 2012 at St-Cergue / La Givrine.[5]

Men's middle distance edit

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Men (6.5 km)[1][5]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Edgars Bertuks  Latvia36:45
Valentin Novikov  Russia36:50
Fabian Hertner  Switzerland37:10
4Thierry Gueorgiou  France37:15
5Francois Gonon  France37:18
6Peter Öberg  Sweden37:22
7Magne Daehli  Norway38:08
8Gustav Bergman  Sweden38:33
9Marc Lauenstein  Switzerland38:48
10Jan Procházka  Czech Republic39:01
11Hannu Airila  Finland39:02
11Oleksandr Kratov  Ukraine39:02
13Kalvis Mihailovs  Latvia39:10
14Olav Lundanes  Norway39:19
15Philippe Adamski  France39:26
16Lauri Sild  Estonia39:42
17Pasi Ikonen  Finland39:46
18Johan Runesson  Sweden39:49
19Leonid Novikov  Russia40:01
20Gernot Kerschbaumer  Austria40:19
21Mārtiņš Sirmais  Latvia40:22
22Carl Waaler Kaas  Norway40:24
23Pavlo Ushkvarok  Ukraine40:25
24Lucas Basset  France40:30
25Tue Lassen  Denmark40:33
26Robert Merl  Austria41:03
27Olle Kärner  Estonia41:05
27Štanfel Matjaž  Croatia41:05
29Jonas Vytautas Gvildys  Lithuania41:07
30Mikhail Mamleev  Italy41:11
31Vojtìch Král  Czech Republic41:21
32Zsolt Lenkei  Hungary41:40
33Simonas Krėpšta  Lithuania41:42
34Jarkko Huovila  Finland42:27
34Michal Krajčík  Slovakia42:27
36Graham Gristwood  Great Britain42:48
37Aleksei Alekseyonok  Belarus43:28
38Ionut Zinca  Romania43:37
39Ross Morrison  New Zealand44:04
40Bjarne Friedrichs  Germany45:53
41Ivaylo Kamenarov  Bulgaria46:41
42Yury Tambasov  Belarus47:25
43Fabien Pasquasy  Belgium51:15
99Søren Bobach  Denmarkdropout (dnf)
99Baptiste Rollier  Switzerlanddropout (dnf)

Women's middle distance edit

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Women (5.5 km)[1][5]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Minna Kauppi  Finland37:37
Tove Alexandersson  Sweden38:09
Tatyana Riabkina  Russia39:03
4Ida Bobach  Denmark39:52
5Simone Niggli-Luder  Switzerland40:00
6Annika Billstam  Sweden40:07
7Sara Lüscher  Switzerland40:53
8Merja Rantanen  Finland41:03
9Inga Dambe  Latvia41:15
10Saila Kinni  Finland41:24
11Lina Strand  Sweden42:04
12Kristina Rybakovaitė  Lithuania43:17
12Dana Šafka Brožková  Czech Republic43:17
14Fanni Gyurkó  Hungary43:38
15Anastasia Trubkina  Russia43:46
16Nadiya Volynska  Ukraine43:51
17Heidi Østlid Bagstevold  Norway44:17
18Amélie Chataing  France44:33
19Iveta Duchová  Czech Republic44:37
20Judith Wyder  Switzerland44:41
21Rachael Rothman  Great Britain45:22
22Signe Klinting  Denmark45:26
22Claire Ward  Great Britain45:26
24Aija Skrastiņa  Latvia45:29
25Gabija Ražaitytė  Lithuania45:46
26Helen Palmer  Great Britain45:58
27Inga Kazlauskaite  Lithuania46:10
28Maja Alm  Denmark47:22
29Mari Fasting  Norway47:24
30Ida Marie Ness Bjorgul  Norway47:47
31Vanessa Round  Australia47:58
32Ursula Kadan  Austria47:59
33Anna Serrallonga Arqués  Spain48:26
33Elisa Elstner  Austria48:26
35Kirti Rebane  Estonia50:11
36Anja Arbter  Austria50:50
37Shuangyan Hao  China50:59
38Hanna Wisniewska  Poland51:13
39Lizzie Ingham  New Zealand53:01
40Ona Rafols Perramón  Spain53:14
41Louise Oram  Canada53:31
42Liis Johanson  Estonia53:58
43Christine Kirchlechner  Italy54:34
44Iliana Shandurkova  Bulgaria54:53
45Christiane Tröße  Germany55:10

Long distance edit

The long distance finals were held on 19 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.[6]

Men's long distance edit

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Men (18.3 km)[1][6]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Olav Lundanes  Norway1:34:42
Matthias Merz  Switzerland1:37:34
Edgars Bertuks  Latvia1:39:13
4Philippe Adamski  France1:40:19
5Anders Holmberg  Sweden1:41:46
6Kiril Nikolov  Bulgaria1:41:48
7Dmitriy Tsvetkov  Russia1:43:20
8Frederic Tranchand  France1:43:55
9Tue Lassen  Denmark1:44:46
10Anders Nordberg  Norway1:44:51
11Yury Tambasov  Belarus1:44:57
12Jan Šedivý  Czech Republic1:45:08
13Mikhail Mamleev  Italy1:45:11
14Fredric Portin  Finland1:45:23
15Gernot Kerschbaumer  Austria1:45:39
16Kalvis Mihailovs  Latvia1:46:32
17Hans Gunnar Omdal  Norway1:47:18
18Tomáš Dlabaja  Czech Republic1:47:24
19Matthias Kyburz  Switzerland1:47:28
20Scott Fraser  Great Britain1:48:31
21Vytautas Beliūnas  Lithuania1:48:59
22Ádám Kovács  Hungary1:49:22
23Rasmus Djurhuus  Denmark1:50:06
24Ionut Zinca  Romania1:50:37
25Vilius Aleliunas  Lithuania1:51:36
26Bartosz Pawlak  Poland1:52:02
27Pavlo Ushkvarok  Ukraine1:52:04
28Erik Rost  Sweden1:52:22
29Rasmus Thrane Hansen  Denmark1:52:52
30Julian Dent  Australia1:54:18
31Tuomas Tervo  Finland1:54:42
32Stepan Kodeda  Czech Republic1:55:21
33Diogo Miguel  Portugal1:55:24
34Alessio Tenani  Italy1:55:48
35Aleksei Alekseyonok  Belarus1:56:42
36Yannick Michiels  Belgium1:57:21
37Artem Panchenko  Ukraine1:57:43
38Peeter Pihl  Estonia1:57:50
39Nicolas Simonin  Ireland1:58:54
99Gustav Bergman  Swedenmiss 1 punch
99Fabian Hertner  Switzerlandpunch 1 wrong
99Andrey Khramov  Russiadropout (dnf)
99Wojciech Kowalski  Polandmiss 1 punch
99Valentin Novikov  Russiadropout (dnf)
99Lauri Sild  Estoniamiss 1 punch

Women's long distance edit

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Women (12.4 km)[1][6]
RankCompetitorNationTime
Simone Niggli-Luder  Switzerland1:15:07
Minna Kauppi  Finland1:16.38
Annika Billstam  Sweden1:17:13
4Tatyana Riabkina  Russia1:19:17
5Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg  Norway1:20:05
6Eva Juřeníková  Czech Republic1:21:10
7Merja Rantanen  Finland1:22:51
8Ida Bobach  Denmark1:23:22
9Ines Brodmann  Switzerland1:23:23
10Venla Niemi  Finland1:23:35
11Sara Lüscher  Switzerland1:24:04
12Lina Strand  Sweden1:25:15
13Svetlana Mironova  Russia1:25:38
14Mari Fasting  Norway1:26:10
15Fanni Gyurkó  Hungary1:26:38
16Celine Dodin  France1:27:31
17Vendula Klechová  Czech Republic1:28:40
18Tone Wigemyr  Norway1:28:52
19Dana Šafka Brožková  Czech Republic1:29:03
20Signe Klinting  Denmark1:29:26
21Inga Dambe  Latvia1:29:30
22Ursula Kadan  Austria1:29:43
23Daria Lajn  Poland1:31:36
24Annika Rihma  Estonia1:32:04
25Claire Ward  Great Britain1:32:17
26Anastasiya Tikhonova  Russia1:32:19
27Ausrine Kutkaite  Lithuania1:32:41
28Ildikó Szerencsi  Hungary1:35:08
29Nadiya Volynska  Ukraine1:35:11
30Kristina Rybakovaitė  Lithuania1:35:21
31Olga Sluta  Ukraine1:35:50
32Miek Fabré  Belgium1:36:26
33Louise Oram  Canada1:37:48
34Lea Vercellotti  France1:38:38
35Aislinn Prendergast  Australia1:39:58
36Helen Bridle  Great Britain1:41:01
37Sarah Rollins  Great Britain1:41:02
38Inga Kazlauskaite  Lithuania1:41:23
39Anna Serrallonga Arqués  Spain1:41:32
40Samantha Saeger  United States1:41:39
41Kim Geypen  Belgium1:43:48
42Kirti Rebane  Estonia1:48:38
43Elisa Elstner  Austria1:52:08
44Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova  Bulgaria1:56:52
99Lena Eliasson  Swedendropout (dnf)

Relay edit

The relay events were held on 21 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.[7]

Men's relay edit

WOC 2012 – Relay – Men (6.9 + 6.9 + 6.9 km)[1][7]
RankNationCompetitorsTime
 Czech RepublicTomáš Dlabaja, Jan Šedivý, Jan Procházka1:40:00
 NorwayMagne Daehli, Carl Waaler Kaas, Olav Lundanes1:40:06
 SwedenJonas Leandersson, Peter Öberg, Anders Holmberg1:40:11
4  SwitzerlandFabian Hertner, Matthias Müller, Matthias Merz1:41:21
5  FrancePhilippe Adamski, Thierry Gueorgiou, Francois Gonon1:42:56
6  DenmarkSøren Bobach, Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Tue Lassen1:43:08
7  LatviaMārtiņš Sirmais, Kalvis Mihailovs, Edgars Bertuks1:45:31
8  LithuaniaVilius Aleliunas, Simonas Krėpšta, Jonas Vytautas Gvildys1:45:42
9  UkrainePavlo Ushkvarok, Oleksandr Kratov, Denys Shcherbakov1:47:01
10  PolandBartosz Pawlak, Michal Olejnik, Wojciech Kowalski1:47:58
11  ItalyKlaus Schgaguler, Alessio Tenani, Mikhail Mamleev1:48:08
12  AustriaRobert Merl, Helmut Gremmel, Gernot Kerschbaumer1:48:38
13  BelgiumTomas Hendrickx, Fabien Pasquasy, Yannick Michiels1:49:34
14  SlovakiaPavol Bukovác, Michal Krajčík, Marián Dávidík1:49:53
15  FinlandTuomas Tervo, Hannu Airila, Fredric Portin1:50:09
16  Great BritainMark Nixon, Matthew Speake, Scott Fraser1:50:45
17  EstoniaPeeter Pihl, Olle Kärner, Lauri Sild1:51:02
18  SpainAntonio Martínez, Luis Nogueira de La Muela, Andreu Blanes Reig1:52:00
19  HungaryMáté Baumholczer, Zsolt Lenkei, Ádám Kovács1:53:39
20  BelarusYury Tambasov, Aleksei Alekseyonok, Dmitry Mikhalkin1:53:53
21  BulgariaKiril Nikolov, Ivaylo Kamenarov, Ivan Sirakov1:54:21
22  AustraliaDavid Brickhill-Jones, Simon Uppill, Julian Dent1:55:45
23  GermanyChristoph Brandt, Bjarne Friedrichs, Sören Lösch1:57:29
24  PortugalMiguel Silva, Diogo Miguel, Manuel Horta2:00:58
25  New ZealandRoss Morrison, Thomas Reynolds, Toby Scott2:04:42
26  IrelandNicolas Simonin, Colm Hill, Darren Burke2:07:12
27  BrazilLeandro Pereira Pasturiza, Fábio Kuczkoski, Ronaldo Almeida2:11:35
28  CanadaPatrick Goeres, Robbie Anderson, Will Critchley2:18:01
29  USAEric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Giacomo Barbone2:22:11
30  TurkeyAhmet Kaçmaz, Musa Erdoğan, Fatih Bodur2:23:32
31  JapanShigeyuki Koizumi, Toshiyuki Matsuzawa, Wataru Teragauchi2:25:30
32  ChinaXiyuan Liang, Zhihui Yi, Qiaoping Li2:40:32
33  Hong KongChi Kin Man, Gerald Yip, Chun Kit Tang3:13:09
99  RussiaAndrey Khramov, Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Valentin Novikovdisqualified
99  South KoreaByung-Gu Ryu, Geun-Hee Hong, Jong-Hyun Parkdisqualified

Women's relay edit

WOC 2012 – Relay – Women (5.9 + 5.9 + 5.9 km)[1][7]
RankNationCompetitorsTime
 SwitzerlandInes Brodmann, Judith Wyder, Simone Niggli-Luder1:44:54
 SwedenAnnika Billstam, Helena Jansson, Tove Alexandersson1:47:18
 NorwaySilje Ekroll Jahren, Mari Fasting, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg1:48:11
4  RussiaAnastasiya Tikhonova, Svetlana Mironova, Tatyana Riabkina1:48:38
5  FinlandVenla Niemi, Merja Rantanen, Minna Kauppi1:51:41
6  DenmarkEmma Klingenberg, Ida Bobach, Maja Alm1:52:21
7  FranceCeline Dodin, Lea Vercellotti, Amélie Chataing1:53:13
8  Czech RepublicIveta Duchova, Dana Šafka Brožková, Eva Juřeníková1:59:54
9  EstoniaKirti Rebane, Liis Johanson, Annika Rihma2:00:24
10  Great BritainSarah Rollins, Claire Ward, Catherine Taylor2:00:33
11  UkraineAnastasiia Danylova, Nadiya Volynska, Olga Reznichenko2:01:02
12  PolandPaulina Faron, Daria Lajn, Hanna Wisniewska2:03:38
13  LithuaniaKristina Rybakovaitė, Gabija Ražaitytė, Ausrine Kutkaite2:03:52
14  HungaryFanni Gyurkó, Éva Novai, Ildikó Szerencsi2:04:06
15  USAAlison Crocker, Sandra Lauenstein, Samantha Saeger2:05:19
16  AustriaUrsula Kadan, Elisa Elstner, Anja Arbter2:07:16
17  ChinaMingyue Zhu, Yingwei Wang, Shuangyan Hao2:09:39
18  GermanyEsther Doetsch, Christiane Tröße, Sieglinde Kundisch2:09:56
19  New ZealandLizzie Ingham, Kate Morrison, Amber Morrison2:14:34
20  ItalyCarlotta Scalet, Maria Novella Sbaraglia, Christine Kirchlechner2:14:47
21  BulgariaNataliya Dimitrova, Iliana Shandurkova, Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova2:15:56
22  AustraliaRachel Effeney, Aislinn Prendergast, Vanessa Round2:17:53
23  SpainOna Rafols Perramón, Berta Meseguer Flaqué, Anna Serrallonga Arqués2:21:15
24  TurkeyTuğba Cın, Selvihan Günaydin, Şengűl Űzen2:57:58
25  Hong KongTsz Ying Yu, Pui Fung Chan, Yuen Ki Hilda Cheng3:20:15
99  BelarusNastsia Klapouskaya, Maria Alekseyonok, Irina Yurokdisqualified
99  LatviaLaura Vīķe, Aija Skrastiņa, Inga Dambedisqualified

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