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Issue 33 - Autumn / Winter 2015 Pictured: Aidan Smith Credit: Porsgrunn O-lag Pictured: Aidan Smith Credit: Porsgrunn FOR JUNIOR ORIENTEERS Inside this Issue: Junior World Orienteering Championships Talent Camps European Youth Orienteering Championships Junior Profiles More People, More Places, More Podiums www.britishorienteering.org.uk/page/ozone Following their weekend preparations at the JWOC 2015 Opening Ceremony. JUNIOR WORLD Credit Porsgrunn O-lag camp, back in the Lakes in May, the British team duly arrived in Rauland, Norway, for the 2015 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) ORIENTEERING and immediately spent two days training on the technical Scandinavian model areas, in excellent weather combined with stunning views of the CHAMPIONSHIPS renowned Telemark region. Hannah Cox in the Sprint, JWOC. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag Left to right, back row: Will Rigg, Dane Blomquist, Aidan Smith, Chris Galloway, Report and photos by Matthew Elkington, Sasha Chepelin. Left to right, front row: Megan Carter Davies, Sarah Jones in the JWOC Middle Aidan Smith in the Sprint at Paul Murgatroyd,Head Julie Emmerson, Sarah Jones, Hannah Cox, Helen Ockenden, Fiona Bunn. Final. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag JWOC. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag Coach for Talent 2015 With little respite the athletes had to recover quickly and then prepare themselves for the Middle finals After a day’s rest and recuperation, with some further The final event of a tough week saw challenging which were run in significantly better conditions than practice on model terrain, the final race in the individual head-to-head racing in the relay races. In the men’s race, Making their debuts competing for Great Britain at this the qualification. Sasha Chepelin was the first Brit off in programme was the Long. Aidan Smith ran a strong favourites Finland took a commanding lead on first leg level were five of the women’s team: Fiona Bunn (Sprint, The following day the athletes went straight into the the A-finals and had a strong final section after some race from the very start to end up claiming an amazing and never looked back; a truly dominant display from the Middle, Relay); Megan Carter-Davies (Sprint, Long, Middle Qualification race in Ådalen, Rauland, with early time loss, to finish in 45th position. Aidan Smith 4th place. This outstanding performance rounded off winners of the overall nations’ competition. Norway 2 and Relay); Hannah Cox (Sprint, Relay); Sarah Jones (Sprint, some technical orienteering challenges expected to be produced another strong result to finish in 19th place, a fantastic week of individual races for this promising Sweden took silver and bronze respectively in a Middle, Relay) and Helen Ockenden (Middle, Long, thrown at them throughout the day. The weather had having qualified in 11th position in his heat. Last starter, young athlete and gives him the best ever men’s result in Scandi-dominated race. Great Britain 2 ran three Relay), with only Julie Emmerson (Middle, Long, Relay) a deteriorated rapidly overnight and the warm heat of the Olli Ojanaho of Finland, won the gold medal having lead the forest for a British athlete at JWOC. consistent legs to finish as 10th nation and ahead of a stalwart of previous campaigns. Sprint was replaced with a more typical mountainous for nearly the entire course. In the Women’s A-final Sarah tired Great Britain 1. climate. The rain set in soon after the first starter and Jones started strongly from third start and after some Alongside this, Sasha (Alexander) Chepelin also errors in the middle section she finished in 41st position. The men’s team had more of a smattering of Junior World temperatures were no more than 10-12 degrees for the performed solidly to come in the top 50, even though There was a lot more drama at the front of the women’s Norway’s Anine Ahlsand took the gold medal on home Orienteering Championships experience, with Alexander entire event. he faded towards the end after giving everything in the race with Sweden coming out on top after a strong soil. Chepelin (Middle, Long, Relay), Chris Galloway (Sprint, energy sapping terrain. Following two days rain, the last-leg from women’s Long champion, Sara Hagstrom. Long, Relay) and Aidan Smith (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay) Sasha Chepelin and Aidan Smith coped well with the marshes became absolute quagmires, making it a very Switzerland finished in 2nd after Simona Aebersold put Britain’s B-finalists all ran well, showing strong resolve being the ‘veterans’ of the group along with Dane Blomquist tricky Nordic terrain, which was a mixture of vague physical challenge for all. William Rigg was content with them back into contention following a strong middle to overcome their disappointments from the previous (Sprint, Long, Relay), Matthew Elkington (Sprint, Middle, contour detail and summer vegetation, making it difficult his 56th and this week has stoked the fires for next leg. Norway took the bronze, having been dominant in day’s heats. Relay) and Will Rigg (Middle, Long, Relay) being there for to differentiate between white and green, and visibility year’s campaign and Dane Blomquist recovered well the early part of the race before fading towards the end. their first time. was low across the forest. Sarah Jones also recovered from early time losses to finish in good shape for the Megan Carter-Davies had a very strong first leg for Great from one or two errors early on and managed to secure Relays. Men’s A Final Britain, coming back in 7th. Sarah Jones unfortunately Racing got underway after several days of preparation with the her A qualification with a fantastic late surge. On the flip- lost time on the middle leg but Julie Emmerson ran side, Fiona Bunn, continuing her impressive JWOC debut, 1st Olli Ojanaho FIN 25:13 In the women’s race, Helen Ockenden finished as best Sprint race in Åmot. The athletes were faced with interesting 2nd Erik Andersson SWE +0:14 strongly on last leg to claw some places back and bring missed out on qualifying for the A final by only 5 seconds. Brit in 54th and has taken a lot of positives from her first route choices from the very start and the longer route choice 3rd Sven Hellmueller SUI +1:03 back Great Britain as 12th nation. legs proved critical for the overall results, with unusual and Will Rigg, Matt Elkington, Helen Ockenden and Julie 19th Aidan Smith GBR +3:34 JWOC as a second year 18. Julie Emmerson found the extreme temperatures adding to the challenge. Aidan Smith, Emmerson were all understandably disappointed with 45th Alexander Chepelin GBR +8:48 going tough, but was still looking forward to anchoring Men competing in his final Junior World Orienteering Championships their results and were left to rue what could have been. the women’s A team in the Relay and Megan Carter- Davies was going so well at the first radio, before a 1st Finland 1 (Raitanen/Niemi/Ojanaho) 1:36:39 and looking in great physical shape, took Britain’s top result, Women’s A Final 2nd Norway 2 (Christiansen/Olaussen/Holter) +1:23 finishing in 7th place, 37 seconds behind Tim Robertson of M20 Heat A SWE 21:14 parallel error on the long leg led to her dropping out of 1st Anine Ahlsand NOR 26:57 3rd Sweden 1 (Granqvist/Andersson/Hector0 +1:42 1st Simon Imark GBR +3:17 contention. New Zealand, who won the Sprint for the 2nd year running. 2nd Johanna Oberg SWE +0:14 15th Great Britain 2 (Elkington/Blomquist/Galloway) +10:48 Aidan Smith +3:42 Dane Blomquist had an excellent debut finishing in 23rd place. 11th GBR 3rd Sandrine Mueller SUI +0:17 [10th Nation] Alexander Chepelin Matthew Elkington finished in 66th place in his JWOC debut 15th 41st Sarah Jones GBR +7:32 Men 20th Great Britain 1 (Chepelin/Rigg/Smith) +16:16 and Chris Galloway, unfortunately struggling with sickness to 1st Olli Ojanaho FIN 1:07:00 finish in 92nd, such a disappointing result for him personally Men’s B Final M20 Heat B SWE 23:41 4th Aidan Smith GBR +2:05 Women after a great domestic season. Megan Carter-Davies was best 1st Erik Andersson GBR +6:26 1st Quentin Rauturier FRA 25:42 45th Alexander Chepelin GBR +11:47 1st Sweden 1 (Svensson/Oberg/Hagstrom) 1:44:17 of a strong Women’s Sprint team, taking a fantastic 17th place. 10th Will Rigg GBR +2:26 56th Will Rigg GBR +13:56 27th Will Rigg 2nd Switzerland 1 (Bachman/Aebersold/Mueller) +2:27 Fiona Bunn finished in 34th, Hannah Cox in 44th, and Sarah 25th Matthew Elkington GBR +6:02 96th Dane Blomquist GBR +22:01 3rd Norway 2 (Martenson/Vassend/Olaussen) +2:52 Jones in 49th place. 15th Great Britain (Carter-Davies/Jones/Emmerson) +15:40 M20 Heat C 24:49 [12th Nation] FIN Women’s B Final Women 32nd Great Britain (Cox/Ockenden/Bunn) +44:13 1st Olli Ojanaho GBR +6:22 M20 1st Kayla Fairbairn NZL 27:44 1st Sara Hagstrom SWE 52:06 NZL 14:31 Matthew Elkington 26th 6th Julie Emmerson GBR +3:01 54th Helen Ockenden GBR +16:42 1st Tim Robertson FIN +0:03 59th Julie Emmerson GBR +18:24 Aleksi Niemi +0:26 8th Helen Ockenden GBR +3:17 2nd LTU 72nd Megan Carter-Davies GBR +22:31 W20 Heat A SUI 25:13 3rd Algirdas Bartkevicius GBR +0:37 1st Sandrine Mueller GBR +9:26 7th Aidan Smith GBR +1:15 Julie Emmerson Dane Blomquist +2:30 27th 23rd GBR 66th Matthew Elkington GBR +3:16 92nd Chris Galloway W20 Heat B FIN 24:39 +8:26 1st Noora Koskinen GBR 21st Fiona Bunn W20 SUI 13:56 1st Simona Aebersold NOR +0:10 W20 Heat C 25:00 2nd Heidi Martensson FIN +0:34 SWE +12:40 Karoliina Ukskoski +1:45 1st Sara Hagstrom GBR FULL RESULTS CAN BE FOUND ON THE JWOC WEBSITE 3rd GBR +15:24 20th Sarah Jones GBR 17th Megan Carter-Davies GBR +2:30 30th Helen Ockenden Ozone Issue 33 03 34th Fiona Bunn GBR +2:46 Hannah Cox +2:51 HTTP://WWW.JWOC2015.ORG 44th GBR Hannah Cox happy after being first starter, 49th Sarah Jones finisher, and race leader in the JWOC Sprint.