Bulletin #4 Additional Event Information
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Bulletin #4 Additional event information 17th World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships WMTBOC World Mountain Bike Orienteering World Cup Round 2 WCup 12th Junior World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships JWMTBOC 26th July – 4th August 2019 Viborg, Denmark http://wmtboc2019.dk [email protected] Facebook: @WMTBOC2019 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 Support Partners page 2 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 Additional event information Dear all, Please find the final additional event information in this bulletin #4. The Danish Orienteering Federation, Viborg Municipality, Sport Event Denmark and all partners welcome you to the WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 in Viborg. Welcome! JØRN SVENSEN Event Director page 3 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 Patrons Welcome to Welcome to Viborg Syddjurs Dear participants Dear participants, and guests, sponsors and visitors at the World In Viborg, we are Championships, looking forward to welcoming you to On behalf of the the MTBO municipality of Championships 2019. Syddjurs, I wish you all welcome to Together with the Danish Orienteering Federation, Syddjurs and we are proud to be part of the World Mountain bike especially to Ebeltoft, home of one of the World Orienteering Championship and the Junior World Championships distances. Mountain bike Orienteering Championship. As you will discover, Ebeltoft is a special place, a well preserved borough with cobbled streets and You will experience extensive heath areas, hilly beautiful houses. Here you will also find an and dramatic landscapes, an amazing game internationally renowned glass museum and a reserve and a multitude of parks and recreational museum for the national treasure The Frigate areas. Jutland – both worth a visit. Viborg Municipality is, geographically, the second Ebeltoft lies on the outskirts of one of Denmark’s largest municipality in Denmark and the area offers many exciting natural resorts suited for most beautiful national parks, Mols Bjerge National outdoor sports. These days, we are constructing a Park. It stretches all the way from Ebeltoft to the 100 kilometers mountain bike trail leading through medieval ruin at Kalø on the coast near Aarhus. five forests and natural resorts. The heartland of Mols Bjerge National Park is Mols Bjerge with its grassy and hilly landscape offers On the route, there are plenty of opportunities to spectacular views across the bay. And for the combine exercises with cultural history as the trail biologically interested you can find a wide range of passes bunkers, churches, drainage channels, rare flowers, plants and insects. heath areas and a working museum. The history of the area is defined by our beautiful All in all: We are crazy about sports! Every year we coastline. Right from the Viking age, during the host many large sports and cultural events – and middle ages, up till today, the connection between we always strive to create the best possible settings and to give our guests the best possible sea and land has formed the development of towns experiences. and cities. I hope that you will enjoy the nature in our area, and that the weather will be warm and We will make effort to ensure that you get the sunny, so you can have a swim in the clear water opportunity to experience the beautiful nature of of the bay. the Viborg area – the woods, the lakes, and (hopefully) Danish summer at its best. We I wish you all good luck in the competition and a recommend that you make time for a stroll in the nice stay in our municipality and the city of cosy streets of Viborg and experience our cultural Ebeltoft. history as well as the excellent shopping possibilities. Sincerely, I hope you have a fantastic championship in Viborg OLE BOLLESEN and wish all participants good luck! Mayor of Syddjurs Municipality ULRIK WILBEK Mayor of Viborg Municipality page 4 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 Content Subject page Subject page General information Competition information 1. Organisation 6 22. Quarantine rules 14 2. Venue | Event centre 6 23. Starting order 14 3. General map | embargoed areas 7 24. Starting procedure 14-15 4. Embargoed areas 7-8 25. Red & orange start groups 15-16 5. Special rules | Riding off tracks 9 26. Model event SPRINT 17 6. Program in headlines 9 27. SPRINT 18-22 7. Accommodation | meals 10 28. Model event FOREST 23 8. Official transport 10 29. MIDDLE 24-26 9. Climate 10 30. LONG 27-28 10. Media services 10 31. Rest day | Open MTBO meeting 29 11. Anti-doping 10 32. MASS START 30-31 12. Health care 11 33. RELAY 32-33 13. Team officials’ meeting 11 34. Entry overview 34 14. Complaints | Protests 11 15. Jury 11 16. Clothing 12 17. Prizes 12 18. Time keeping system 12 19. GPS tracking 12 20. Legal & illegal GNSS devices 13 21. Additional information 13 page 5 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 1. Organisation | Officials 2. Venue | Event centre Danish Orienteering Federation The event centre is situated at ASMILDKLOSTER Idraettens Hus, Broendby Stadion 20, AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, with top facilities in DK-2605 Broendby order to host the World MTBO Championships. E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: www.do-f.dk It is right near the town centre of Viborg and easily Tel. +45 4326 2740 accessible by car and public transport. Event office | Event centre Within 1 km, you will find super markets, several Asmildkloster Agriculture School restaurants and shops. Asmildklostervej 1, DK-8800 Viborg Nearest super market (Netto) is just app 400 m E-mail: [email protected] away. Open all week from 07-22 hrs. Tel. +45 2018 4123 Leader: Wilbert Lyngsø Free Wi-Fi at the event centre. Network: FreeInternet Event Director | Point of contact media Password: asmildkloster Jørn Svensen Bike storage: At the event centre, follow signs. E-mail: [email protected] Bring own lock for (extra) safety. Tel. +45 4044 6999 Bike wash: At the event centre. Competition Director Event office opening hours in general Michael Lindholm Arrival days: Until 2100 hrs E-mail: [email protected] Tel. +45 2636 7570 Race days: 0730-0930 EC IOF Senior Event Advisor 1000-1400 Arenas Magnus Wallenborg (SWE) 1700-1900 EC E-mail: [email protected] Other days: 0900-1200 & 1500-1900 Tel. +46 72231 44 22 Changes may occur, look at the door. National Controller Claus Poulsen E-mail: [email protected] Tel. +45 2139 8730 page 6 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 3. General map Århus Airport is situated 90 km from the event center and with connective Aalborg Airport is situated 90 km from the event center and with flights from Copenhagen. connective flights from Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The city of Viborg will host the 2019 WMTBOC & JWMTBOC. Karup Airport is situated 30 km from the event center and with connective flights from Copenhagen. Billund Airport is situated 100 km from the event center and with more than 40 international Copenhagen Airport destinations. is situated 325 km from the event center. All major road networks of Europe connect to Jutland through Germany and highways from the rest of Europe ends as close as 40 km from Viborg. 4. Embargoed areas The embargo is in place until after the WMTBOC 2019 in July/August 2019. The areas marked on the map are embargoed for all orienteering activities, unless specifically permitted by the organizers. The embargoed areas are out of bounds for all potential participants and team members, including competitors, team coaches, manager or anyone associated the team/individual. Viborg City Centre is totally embargoed until after the sprint competition! Any permission for access into embargoed areas must be requested from the organizers, if needed and before access. This includes also if there are any MTB events taking place in the embargoed areas and potential competitors wish to participate. The embargo includes the use of drones in or about the terrain. Old orienteering maps (MTBO or Foot) are available on the website along the specific embargoed areas. page 7 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 See fully embargoed areas on the website. Undallslund Stråsø Ebeltoft Viborg City Centre Finderup page 8 WMTBOC | JWMTBOC | 2019 Bulletin #4 1.1 24/07/2019 5. Rules The 2019 Championships will be organized in accordance with the Competition Rules for IOF MTB Orienteering Events, valid from 1st January 2019 and the Special Rules for the World Cup. All Competition Rules for IOF MTBO are available here: https://orienteering.sport/ Controls situated outside paths/tracks | Riding off track In the SPRINT, LONG and RELAY competitions, controls will occur outside the tracks. In general riding off the tracks will only be permitted in the relay competition. In all other competitions; riding, running and walking off the tracks will be strictly forbidden, except in rideable area 2 – orange colour as shown in ISMTBOM 2010, appendix 1 (p. 16). Race control: Marshalls will be present in the competitions. Special features MTB tracks will be drawn as on the image below. 25 % grey colour under the black line, in order to show the rider, here is a MTB track. The MTBO commission has permitted this, through the IOF Senior Event Adviser. The signature will occur at middle, long and mass start maps. The signature was used during 2019 MTBO camp and slightly adjusted with a lighter grey colour. Use of BLACK/YELLOW ribbon The use of BLACK/YELLOW ribbon indicates that “this is not a track – and riding is prohibited”. It will be used/seen in places where the organisers might think that riders could be misled to believe there is a track or misunderstand the mapping.