2018 World Masters Orienteering Championships

The World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018 was the 23rd World Masters Orienteering Championships(WMOC) organised and held in Denmark with 4200 participants from 45 countries.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The WMOC is an annual international orienteering competition and the official world championship for orienteering runners above the age of 35. This is the largest orienteering event ever held on Danish soil. The champions were coming from 23 countries.^[7]^[8]^[9] The Danish organizers were using the WMOC as a promotional opportunity and arranged around the event several local competitions for the Danish public, which attracted participation in all ages.^[10]

Sprint

The sprint competitions took place in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen (qualifications) and in central Copenhagen (finals).^[11] ^[12]25 champions were celebrated the first final day 8 July 2018.^[13]

MEN M35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Tomas Hendrickx	Roman Ryapolov	Dmitry Krapivko	3.9 km, 22 controls

WOMEN W35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Katarina Lamiova	Samantha Saeger	Emelie Eklof	3.3 km, 17 controls

MEN M40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Rune Olsen	Roman Efimov	Nick Barrable	3.7 km, 24 controls

WOMEN W40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Simone Niggli	Sarah Rollins	Elli Virta	3.2 km, 18 controls

MEN M45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Thomas Greve Jensen	Casper Giding	Matthias Niggli	3.4 km, 23 controls

WOMEN W45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Natasha Key	Kirti Rebane	Silvia Chupekova	3.1 km, 16 controls

MEN M50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Michael Finkenstaedt	Piotr Cych	Jens Knud Maarup	3.3 km, 17 controls

WOMEN W50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Liselotte Freuler	Sirra Toivonen	Anna Gornicka Antonowicz	2.7 km, 17 controls

MEN M55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Lukas Jenzer	Graham Patten	Pekka Kiljunen	3.0 km, 17 controls

WOMEN W55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Laila Hoglund	Jana Smutna	Veronique Guinot	2.6 km, 13 controls

MEN M60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	John Embrey	Keith Tonkin	Ivanas Ziaziulia	3.1 km, 16 controls

WOMEN W60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Gillian Ingham	Arlette Piguet	Katalin Karman	2.5 km, 12 controls

MEN M65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sigurd Daehli	Keld Johnsen	Mikko Sani	2.3 km, 13 controls

WOMEN W65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Unni Strand Karlsen	Maria Nordwall	Christine Kiddier	2.1 km, 12 controls

MEN M70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Janne Brunstedt	Freddy Sillien	Veikko Loukonen	2.3 km, 17 controls

WOMEN W70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Tamara Ovsiannikova	Mara Plaude	Sheila Carey	1.7 km, 13 controls

MEN M75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Helmut Conrad	Goran Andersson	Knud Soerensen	1.9 km, 11 controls

WOMEN W75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Torid Kvaal	Leena Paatero	Erika Lemnitzer	1.5 km, 11 controls

MEN M80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Alois Laznicka	Jon Tyldum	Roland Karlsson	1.5 km, 11 controls

WOMEN W80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Inge Madsen	Ilse Uus	Gunnel Borjesson	1.4 km, 10 controls

MEN M85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Martin Hutzli	Peo Bengtsson	Atsushi Takahashi	1.4 km, 10 controls

WOMEN W85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Guldborg Sovik	Clarie Ek	Bernice Antonsson	1.1 km, 9 controls

MEN M90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Karleric Fransso	Hermann Wehner	Curth Svensson	1.1 km, 9 controls

WOMEN W90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sole Nieminen	Signe Nyman		1.0 km, 11 controls

MEN M95

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Unto Nyystila			1.0 km, 11 controls

Middle distance

Middle Final took place in Tisvilde Hegn situated on the north coast of the island Zealand. Famous from numerous big events throughout the history, Tisvilde Hegn is legendary in Danish Orienteering for its special vegetation and characteristic contour features. 24 champions were celebrated the second final day 11 July 2018.^[14]

MEN M35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Roman Ryapolov	Pavel Krasko	Ondrej Pijak	5.9 km, 24 controls

WOMEN W35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Emelie Eklof	Rebecka Lindberg	Maria Andersson	4.7 km, 19 controls

MEN M40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Jakob Eng	Petteri Muukkonen	Nick Barrable	5.8 km, 24 controls

WOMEN W40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Simone Niggli	Elli Virta	Anna Quayle	4.6 km, 19 controls

MEN M45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Casper Giding	Thomas Greve Jensen	Matthias Niggli	4.9 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Kirti Rebane	Tenna Norgaard Landsperg	Heidi Salonen	3.9 km, 19 controls

MEN M50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Christian Vogelsang	Jens Knud Maarup	Risto Haikonen	4.6 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sirra Toivonen	Annika Viilo	Marianne Lynge Krogh	3.8 km, 17 controls

MEN M55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Håkan Eriksson	Petr Henych	Anton Bjartnes	4.4 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sara Snogerup Linse	Laila Hoglund	Anne Nurmi	3.6 km, 17 controls

MEN M60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Rolf Lund	Per Magnusson	Sixten Westlund	4.3 km, 18 controls

WOMEN W60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Viktoriia Fershalova	Anne Pelto Huikko	Grete S Borge Hovi	3.5 km, 16 controls

MEN M65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sigurd Daehli	Tom Arild Karlsen	Olof Olofsson	3.8 km, 18 controls

WOMEN W65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Unni Strand Karlsen	Eva Tykesson	Pirkko Kalliola	3.3 km, 15 controls

MEN M70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Freddy Sillien	Pertti Nieminen	Kjell Winther	3.7 km, 18 controls

WOMEN W70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Karin Gustafsson	Sharon Crawford	Eeva Liisa Korkeakangas	3.0 km, 15 controls

MEN M75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Juhani Makinen	Helmut Conrad	Ernst Odermatt	3.2 km, 15 controls

WOMEN W75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Torid Kvaal	Gudrun Broman	Britt Rangert	2.4 km, 14 controls

MEN M80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Roland Karlsson	Jørgen Jensen	Tapio Patana	2.8 km, 15 controls

WOMEN W80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Asta Sjoeberg	Ilse Uus	Eivor Steen Olsson	1.6 km, 9 controls

MEN M85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Peo Bengtsson	Martin Hutzli	Arvo Hyvonen	1.8 km, 10 controls

WOMEN W85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Clarie Ek	Verena Harzenmoser	Aasa Nilsson	1.4 km, 8 controls

MEN M90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Karleric Fransso	Arvo Majoinen	Curth Svensson	1.6 km, 10 controls

WOMEN W90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Signe Nyman	Sole Nieminen		1.1 km, 7 controls

Long distance

The long distance final took place in the classic Grib forest, which is one of the largest in Denmark. The terrain is typical for eastern Denmark and yet challenging due to its complex varieties of vegetation – from thick spruce forest to hilly, yet fast old beech forest areas. Despite the fact that wood cutting has been extensive over the previous years, large areas of old spruce still provides for fast running. 24 champions were celebrated the third final day 13 July 2018.^[15]

MEN M35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Roman Ryapolov	Ondrej Pijak	Vladyslav Laskarzhevsky	13.5 km, 31 controls

WOMEN W35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Rebecka Lindberg	Emelie Eklof	Tiina Vaere	8.2 km, 19 controls

MEN M40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Petteri Muukkonen	Nick Barrable	Jakob Eng	12.0 km, 25 controls

WOMEN W40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Simone Niggli	Irita Pukite	Elli Virta	7.2 km, 21 controls

MEN M45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Casper Giding	Manu Mutka	Tommy Lindberg	10.3 km, 21 controls

WOMEN W45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Kirti Rebane	Hanka Straube	Charlotte Flansbjer	6.3 km, 16 controls

MEN M50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Jens Knud Maarup	Christian Vogelsang	Nils Schmiedeberg	9.4 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Anna Gornicka Antonowicz	Annika Viilo	Marie Morlon	6.1 km, 14 controls

MEN M55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Håkan Eriksson	Petr Henych	Kent Kragh	8.1 km, 18 controls

WOMEN W55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sara Snogerup Linse	Laila Hoglund	Jana Smutna	5.9 km, 15 controls

MEN M60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sixten Westlund	Rolf Lund	Eero Junkala	7.7 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Veronika Lange	Danute Vilkeliene	Katalin Karman	6.0 km, 16 controls

MEN M65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Sigurd Daehli	Mykola Bozhko	Ken Ragnarsson	7.1 km, 18 controls

WOMEN W65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	IngMarie Aasenlund	Christina Hjertson	Christine Kiddier	5.2 km, 14 controls

MEN M70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Freddy Sillien	Veikko Loukonen	Christer Sandh	6.6 km, 19 controls

WOMEN W70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Karin Gustafsson	Kari Timenes Laugen	Tamara Ovsiannikova	5.0 km, 15 controls

MEN M75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Helmut Conrad	Reijo Haaja	Helge Bjaaland	5.8 km, 15 controls

WOMEN W75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Birgitta Olsson	Helen Andertoft	Torid Kvaal	4.2 km, 13 controls

MEN M80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Roland Karlsson	Jurii Grishanov	Rune Carlsson	5.0 km, 14 controls

WOMEN W80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Asta Sjoeberg	Eivor Steen Olsson	Inge Madsen	2.7 km, 10 controls

MEN M85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Peo Bengtsson	Goran Larsson	Martin Hutzli	3.2 km, 15 controls

WOMEN W85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Bernice Antonsson	Clarie Ek	Guldborg Sovik	2.3 km, 9 controls

MEN M90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Karleric Fransso	Arvo Majoinen	Brynjulf Forseth	2.9 km, 13 controls

WOMEN W90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2018	Signe Nyman	Sole Nieminen		1.9 km, 9 controls

References

^ "Veteran VM kommer til Danmark". Retrieved 2018-10-13.
^ "WMOC 2018 i Nordsjælland". Retrieved 2018-10-13.
^ Taidal, Lærke (2018-06-29). "Veteran-VM indtager Lorryland: Den ældste deltager er 100 år". Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ Quvang, Thomas. "Verdens bedste veteraner dyster i skoven". Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ Timm, Morten. "4200 kommer til VM-stævne i Hørsholm". Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ Taidal, Lærke (2018-07-08). "Tusindvis af veteranløbere dyster om VM-medaljer". Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ "Ett gäng svenska veteran-VM medaljörer". Skogssport (in Swedish) (6/2018): 42. ISSN 0346-1297.
^ "31 svenska guld i Danmark". Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ "14 o-løbere fra Køge klar til veteran-VM". 2018-06-30. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ "Kulturmetropolens ByOrienteringsløb melder succes" (in Danish). Retrieved 2018-10-13.
^ "Maps from sprint finals". Retrieved 2018-07-09.
^ "World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final Results". Retrieved 2018-10-13.
^ "Results – WMOC Sprint Final 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-07-09.
^ "Results - WMOC Forest Middle Final 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-07-12.
^ "Results – WMOC Forest Long Final 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2018-07-13.

External links

Official website

[1] "Veteran VM kommer til Danmark". Retrieved 2018-10-13.

[2] "WMOC 2018 i Nordsjælland". Retrieved 2018-10-13.

[3] Taidal, Lærke (2018-06-29). "Veteran-VM indtager Lorryland: Den ældste deltager er 100 år". Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[4] Quvang, Thomas. "Verdens bedste veteraner dyster i skoven". Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[5] Timm, Morten. "4200 kommer til VM-stævne i Hørsholm". Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[6] Taidal, Lærke (2018-07-08). "Tusindvis af veteranløbere dyster om VM-medaljer". Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[7] "Ett gäng svenska veteran-VM medaljörer". Skogssport (in Swedish) (6/2018): 42. ISSN 0346-1297.

[8] "31 svenska guld i Danmark". Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[9] "14 o-løbere fra Køge klar til veteran-VM". 2018-06-30. Retrieved 2018-10-15.

[10] "Kulturmetropolens ByOrienteringsløb melder succes" (in Danish). Retrieved 2018-10-13.

[11] "Maps from sprint finals". Retrieved 2018-07-09.

[12] "World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final Results". Retrieved 2018-10-13.

[13] "Results – WMOC Sprint Final 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-07-09.

[14] "Results - WMOC Forest Middle Final 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-07-12.

[15] "Results – WMOC Forest Long Final 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2018-07-13.

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