2012 World Orienteering Championships

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

Medalists

Men Sprint Matthias Kyburz Matthias Merz Matthias Müller Middle distance Edgars Bertuks Valentin Novikov Fabian Hertner Long distance Olav Lundanes Matthias Merz Edgars Bertuks Relay Tomáš DlabajaJan ŠedivýJan Procházka Magne DaehliCarl Waaler KaasOlav Lundanes Jonas LeanderssonPeter ÖbergAnders Holmberg

Women Sprint Simone Niggli-Luder Maja Alm Annika Billstam Middle distance Minna Kauppi Tove Alexandersson Tatyana Riabkina Long distance Simone Niggli-Luder Minna Kauppi Annika Billstam Relay Ines BrodmannJudith WyderSimone Niggli-Luder Annika BillstamHelena JanssonTove Alexandersson Silje Ekroll JahrenMari Fasting

Participating countries A total of 46 countries participated at this World Championships.

Results

Sprint The sprint finals were held on 14 July 2012 at Lausanne-Ouchy.

Men's sprint + WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Men (4.2 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Matthias Kyburz 15:32.0 Matthias Merz 15:49.5 Matthias Müller 15:59.0 4 Scott Fraser 16:11.2 5 Andrey Khramov 16:22.7 6 Tuomo Mäkelä 16:32.9 7 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 16:33.8 8 Zsolt Lenkei 16:39.5 9 Søren Bobach 16:43.7 10 Vojtìch Král 16:45.0 11 Murray Strain 16:46.1 12 Anders Holmberg 16:49.9 13 Jerker Lysell 16:51.2 14 Ionut Zinca 16:52.7 15 Jonas Leandersson 16:59.2 16 Tomáš Dlabaja 16:59.5 17 Wojciech Kowalski 17:02.5 18 Vincent Coupat 17:04.2 19 Alexey Sidorov 17:05.2 20 Rasmus Thrane Hansen 17:07.7 21 Robert Merl 17:08.2 22 Ádám Kovács 17:12.7 23 Tuomas Tervo 17:15.4 24 Andreu Blanes Reig 17:21.0 25 Vilius Aleliunas 17:28.1 26 Jan Procházka 17:30.0 27 Nicolas Simonin 17:35.2 28 Alexander Lubina 17:37.4 29 Ulf Forseth Indgaard 17:38.0 30 Antonio Martínez 17:42.2 31 Yannick Michiels 17:43.1 32 Julian Dent 17:50.3 33 Tim Robertson 17:51.7 34 Simonas Krepsta 17:52.4 35 Ivaylo Kamenarov 17:54.4 36 Patrick Goeres 17:54.7 36 Ross Morrison 17:54.7 38 Dmitry Nakonechny 17:55.4 39 David Brickhill-Jones 18:00.6 40 Wolfgang Siegert 18:01.2 41 Robert Krüger 18:11.0 42 Klaus Schgaguler 18:13.2 43 Michael Crone 18:41.3 99 Kiril Nikolov miss 1 punch 99 Frederic Tranchand miss 1 punch

Women's sprint + WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Women (3.7 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Simone Niggli-Luder 15:43.7 Maja Alm 16:20.2 Annika Billstam 16:28.0 4 Helena Jansson 16:30.2 5 Rahel Friederich 16:33.1 6 Venla Niemi 16:39.4 7 Claire Ward 16:49.4 8 Lena Eliasson 16:56.9 9 Lizzie Ingham 17:07.2 10 Silje Ekroll Jahren 17:12.8 11 Tessa Hill 17:14.4 12 Signe Klinting 17:18.2 13 Shuangyan Hao 17:25.4 14 Fanni Gyurkó 17:33.6 14 Marika Teini 17:33.6 16 Judith Wyder 17:36.7 17 Heidi Østlid Bagstevold 17:37.1 18 Iveta Duchová 17:39.0 19 Ausrine Kutkaite 17:44.9 20 Alison Crocker 17:47.3 21 Svetlana Mironova 17:47.7 22 Ursula Kadan 18:01.2 23 Anastasiya Tikhonova 18:02.9 24 Greta Knarston 18:05.0 25 Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg 18:06.3 26 Inga Kazlauskaite 18:19.1 27 Kim Geypen 18:26.9 28 Ildikó Szerencsi 18:31.1 29 Hanna Wisniewska 18:33.8 30 Daria Lajn 18:35.1 31 Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova 18:37.8 32 Gabija Ražaityte 18:39.9 33 Sofia Haajanen 18:46.9 34 Mikiko Minagawa 18:52.8 35 Celine Dodin 19:05.8 36 Lea Vercellotti 19:07.5 37 Mingyue Zhu 19:24.1 38 Catherine Taylor 19:29.4 39 Amélie Chataing 19:40.5 40 Esther Doetsch 20:03.7 41 Yingwei Wang 20:28.6 42 Raquel Costa 21:19.7 43 Nataliya Dimitrova 23:10.0 99 Eva Jureníková miss 1 punch 99 Annika Rihma miss 1 punch

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

Men's middle distance + WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Men (6.5 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Edgars Bertuks 36:45 Valentin Novikov 36:50 Fabian Hertner 37:10 4 Thierry Gueorgiou 37:15 5 Francois Gonon 37:18 6 Peter Öberg 37:22 7 Magne Daehli 38:08 8 Gustav Bergman 38:33 9 Marc Lauenstein 38:48 10 Jan Procházka 39:01 11 Hannu Airila 39:02 11 Oleksandr Kratov 39:02 13 Kalvis Mihailovs 39:10 14 Olav Lundanes 39:19 15 Philippe Adamski 39:26 16 Lauri Sild 39:42 17 Pasi Ikonen 39:46 18 Johan Runesson 39:49 19 Leonid Novikov 40:01 20 Gernot Kerschbaumer 40:19 21 Mārtiņš Sirmais 40:22 22 Carl Waaler Kaas 40:24 23 Pavlo Ushkvarok 40:25 24 Lucas Basset 40:30 25 Tue Lassen 40:33 26 Robert Merl 41:03 27 Olle Kärner 41:05 27 Štanfel Matjaž 41:05 29 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 41:07 30 Mikhail Mamleev 41:11 31 Vojtìch Král 41:21 32 Zsolt Lenkei 41:40 33 Simonas Krėpšta 41:42 34 Jarkko Huovila 42:27 34 Michal Krajčík 42:27 36 Graham Gristwood 42:48 37 Aleksei Alekseyonok 43:28 38 Ionut Zinca 43:37 39 Ross Morrison 44:04 40 Bjarne Friedrichs 45:53 41 Ivaylo Kamenarov 46:41 42 Yury Tambasov 47:25 43 Fabien Pasquasy 51:15 99 Søren Bobach dropout (dnf) 99 Baptiste Rollier dropout (dnf)

Women's middle distance + WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Women (5.5 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Minna Kauppi 37:37 Tove Alexandersson 38:09 Tatyana Riabkina 39:03 4 Ida Bobach 39:52 5 Simone Niggli-Luder 40:00 6 Annika Billstam 40:07 7 Sara Lüscher 40:53 8 Merja Rantanen 41:03 9 Inga Dambe 41:15 10 Saila Kinni 41:24 11 Lina Strand 42:04 12 Kristina Rybakovaitė 43:17 12 Dana Šafka Brožková 43:17 14 Fanni Gyurkó 43:38 15 Anastasia Trubkina 43:46 16 Nadiya Volynska 43:51 17 Heidi Østlid Bagstevold 44:17 18 Amélie Chataing 44:33 19 Iveta Duchová 44:37 20 Judith Wyder 44:41 21 Rachael Rothman 45:22 22 Signe Klinting 45:26 22 Claire Ward 45:26 24 Aija Skrastiņa 45:29 25 Gabija Ražaitytė 45:46 26 Helen Palmer 45:58 27 Inga Kazlauskaite 46:10 28 Maja Alm 47:22 29 Mari Fasting 47:24 30 Ida Marie Ness Bjorgul 47:47 31 Vanessa Round 47:58 32 Ursula Kadan 47:59 33 Anna Serrallonga Arqués 48:26 33 Elisa Elstner 48:26 35 Kirti Rebane 50:11 36 Anja Arbter 50:50 37 Shuangyan Hao 50:59 38 Hanna Wisniewska 51:13 39 Lizzie Ingham 53:01 40 Ona Rafols Perramón 53:14 41 Louise Oram 53:31 42 Liis Johanson 53:58 43 Christine Kirchlechner 54:34 44 Iliana Shandurkova 54:53 45 Christiane Tröße 55:10

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

Men's long distance + WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Men (18.3 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Olav Lundanes 1:34:42 Matthias Merz 1:37:34 Edgars Bertuks 1:39:13 4 Philippe Adamski 1:40:19 5 Anders Holmberg 1:41:46 6 Kiril Nikolov 1:41:48 7 Dmitriy Tsvetkov 1:43:20 8 Frederic Tranchand 1:43:55 9 Tue Lassen 1:44:46 10 Anders Nordberg 1:44:51 11 Yury Tambasov 1:44:57 12 Jan Šedivý 1:45:08 13 Mikhail Mamleev 1:45:11 14 Fredric Portin 1:45:23 15 Gernot Kerschbaumer 1:45:39 16 Kalvis Mihailovs 1:46:32 17 Hans Gunnar Omdal 1:47:18 18 Tomáš Dlabaja 1:47:24 19 Matthias Kyburz 1:47:28 20 Scott Fraser 1:48:31 21 Vytautas Beliūnas 1:48:59 22 Ádám Kovács 1:49:22 23 Rasmus Djurhuus 1:50:06 24 Ionut Zinca 1:50:37 25 Vilius Aleliunas 1:51:36 26 Bartosz Pawlak 1:52:02 27 Pavlo Ushkvarok 1:52:04 28 Erik Rost 1:52:22 29 Rasmus Thrane Hansen 1:52:52 30 Julian Dent 1:54:18 31 Tuomas Tervo 1:54:42 32 Stepan Kodeda 1:55:21 33 Diogo Miguel 1:55:24 34 Alessio Tenani 1:55:48 35 Aleksei Alekseyonok 1:56:42 36 Yannick Michiels 1:57:21 37 Artem Panchenko 1:57:43 38 Peeter Pihl 1:57:50 39 Nicolas Simonin 1:58:54 99 Gustav Bergman miss 1 punch 99 Fabian Hertner punch 1 wrong 99 Andrey Khramov dropout (dnf) 99 Wojciech Kowalski miss 1 punch 99 Valentin Novikov dropout (dnf) 99 Lauri Sild miss 1 punch

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

Relay The relay events were held on 21 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.

Men's relay + WOC 2012 – Relay – Men (6.9 + 6.9 + 6.9 km) Rank Nation Competitors Time Tomáš Dlabaja, Jan Šedivý, Jan Procházka 1:40:00 Magne Daehli, Carl Waaler Kaas, Olav Lundanes 1:40:06 Jonas Leandersson, Peter Öberg, Anders Holmberg 1:40:11 4 Fabian Hertner, Matthias Müller, Matthias Merz 1:41:21 5 Philippe Adamski, Thierry Gueorgiou, Francois Gonon 1:42:56 6 Søren Bobach, Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Tue Lassen 1:43:08 7 Mārtiņš Sirmais, Kalvis Mihailovs, Edgars Bertuks 1:45:31 8 Vilius Aleliunas, Simonas Krėpšta, Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 1:45:42 9 Pavlo Ushkvarok, Oleksandr Kratov, Denys Shcherbakov 1:47:01 10 Bartosz Pawlak, Michal Olejnik, Wojciech Kowalski 1:47:58 11 Klaus Schgaguler, Alessio Tenani, Mikhail Mamleev 1:48:08 12 Robert Merl, Helmut Gremmel, Gernot Kerschbaumer 1:48:38 13 Tomas Hendrickx, Fabien Pasquasy, Yannick Michiels 1:49:34 14 Pavol Bukovác, Michal Krajčík, Marián Dávidík 1:49:53 15 Tuomas Tervo, Hannu Airila, Fredric Portin 1:50:09 16 Mark Nixon, Matthew Speake, Scott Fraser 1:50:45 17 Peeter Pihl, Olle Kärner, Lauri Sild 1:51:02 18 Antonio Martínez, Luis Nogueira de La Muela, Andreu Blanes Reig 1:52:00 19 Máté Baumholczer, Zsolt Lenkei, Ádám Kovács 1:53:39 20 Yury Tambasov, Aleksei Alekseyonok, Dmitry Mikhalkin 1:53:53 21 Kiril Nikolov, Ivaylo Kamenarov, Ivan Sirakov 1:54:21 22 David Brickhill-Jones, Simon Uppill, Julian Dent 1:55:45 23 Christoph Brandt, Bjarne Friedrichs, Sören Lösch 1:57:29 24 Miguel Silva, Diogo Miguel, Manuel Horta 2:00:58 25 Ross Morrison, Thomas Reynolds, Toby Scott 2:04:42 26 Nicolas Simonin, Colm Hill, Darren Burke 2:07:12 27 Leandro Pereira Pasturiza, Fábio Kuczkoski, Ronaldo Almeida 2:11:35 28 Patrick Goeres, Robbie Anderson, Will Critchley 2:18:01 29 Eric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Giacomo Barbone 2:22:11 30 Ahmet Kaçmaz, Musa Erdoğan, Fatih Bodur 2:23:32 31 Shigeyuki Koizumi, Toshiyuki Matsuzawa, Wataru Teragauchi 2:25:30 32 Xiyuan Liang, Zhihui Yi, Qiaoping Li 2:40:32 33 Chi Kin Man, Gerald Yip, Chun Kit Tang 3:13:09 99 Andrey Khramov, Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Valentin Novikov disqualified 99 Byung-Gu Ryu, Geun-Hee Hong, Jong-Hyun Park disqualified

Women's relay