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Ole Hesselbjerg in the final

Well Toth is now 4th...

http://www.ten7events.com/2018-ec-10/standings-sorted-by-forecasts/

Nope

Some thoughts about the completed competitions on the rest day: In men's sprint, the favourite, the king of sprint, Daniel Hubmann, defended his title. He has now won 3 times and won a total of 9 medals on the distance (both are records). Everything must be good as gold for our mates in New Zealand after Tim Robertson won their first ever medal at a WCH, and the second medal for any athlete outside Europe. The last man on the podium is certainly also a happy fellow. Andreas Kyburz won his first medal at a WCH. He can show it to his brother, and succesfull orienteering-runnner, Matthias Kyburz. Maybe they have started a new family tradition? Side note: Yannick Michiels was only half a second from winning first ever medal! @heywoodu must be so upset about it. In women's sprint, Maja Alm wrote history by winnning her 4th consecutive gold medal on the distance, most by any female runner. She also became the first orienteering-runnner, who has won 4 consecutive WCH gold medals on a induvidual distance in the history of the orienteering world championships. The woman on the second step of the podium, Tove Alexandersson, is also on a historical mission. She can become the first runner to win a medal on every distance (including relay) a the same world championship. She already have 2, only 3 to go. Bronze medallist, Judith Wyder, won her 10th medal at a WCH, She establishes herself as one of Switzerland's most succesfull runner, only behind Daniel Hubmann and the legandary Simone Niggli-Luder. The sprint relay went as expected. No nation was close to the favourites of . Switzerland came second and a nice bronze medal to Denmark. Tomorrow starts the real WCH. Athletes travel from beatiful Riga to Sigulda. The middle distance for men and women is on the program near the magnificent ravine of the Gauja river valley. I will post results and, probably, post some pictures from the competitions. An update could be up already tomorrow evening, otherwise the day after. For now, it is over and out.

Nykyforov just saved me for total failure in predicting long jump (well at least for now ) Howard.. But Smajlaj is in the final

I know the feeling...

And with Thierry Gueorgiou now retired the chance is 0%

ofc I'm joking about forests are overrated Unfortunately as you write they have introduced the mixed relay on the sprint distance... I'm worried that Bach and his corrupt friends will only choose to have the sprint distances at the olympics. I would really like it to become an olympic sport. Long distance for men and women, and relay for men and women in the forest. But we know that's not going to happen. IOC will complain about the lack of gender equality, and it is too hard for new nations to compete with already established orienteering nations.

I agree. But on the other hand, my country's biggest chance of winning medals is on the sprint distances. That's what happens when your country is one of the most farmed in the world. Forests are overrated anyway.

I never thought I would see this. This can only happen on totallympics.

That's what the women are running. For the men it is 16 km through the same, but they are climbing about 700 meters and the winning time is about 95-100 minutes. Doesn't it sound lovely?

What about running 10 km in a dense forest and cross swampy areas while climbing 500 meter?

Well if you are 4 time world champion you can apparently understand these maps and run 3.8 km in 13 minutes.

Women's sprint:

Pictures from 04.08 Men's sprint:

Results 04.08 Women's sprint: Gold: Maja Alm 13:43.1 Silver: Tove Alexandersson 14:00.0 Bronze: Judith Wyder 14:10.3 Full result list: https://www.woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/4.08/results/Final/Results - Women.pdf Men's sprint: Gold:Daniel Hubmann 14:05.9 Silver:Tim Robertson 14:07.0 Bronze:Andreas Kyburz 14:26.0 Full result list: https://www.woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/4.08/results/Final/Results - Men.pdf Results 05.08 Sprint relay: Gold:Sweden (Tove Alexandersson, Emil Svensk, Jonas Leandersson, Karolin Ohlsson) 58:27 Silver:Switzerland (Elena Roos, Florian Howald, Fabian Hertner, Judith Wyder ) 58:58 Bronze:Denmark (Amanda Falck Weber, Tue Lassen, Jakob Edsen, Maja Alm) 59:14 Full result list: https://www.woc2018.lv/resultsWOC/5.08/results/Results.pdf

Hey everyone. I will post results, clips and maybe give some personal thoughts throughout the championship. Official site: https://www.woc2018.lv/

Orienteering IOF World Championships 2018 Riga/Sigulda (LAT) - 4 August 2018 - 11 August 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Final day, Medalists Wrestling Freestyle: -57 kg Gold: Arsen Harutyunyan Silver: Andrii Dzhelep Bronze: Aliabbas Rzazade and Teimuraz Vanishvili -61 kg Gold: Vazgen Tevanyan Silver: Intigam Valizada Bronze: Ihor Nykyforuk and Ramaz Turmanidze -65 kg Gold: Aznaur Tavaev Silver: Nicolai Grahmez Bronze: Mikita Strakh and Gegham Galstyan -70 kg Gold: Chermen Valiev Silver: Khadzhimurad Gadzhiyev Bronze: Stepan Lylyk and Arman Andreasyan -74 kg Gold: Akhmed Shokumov Silver: Dzhemal Rushen Ali Bronze: Piotr Caraseni and Ismail Abdullaev -79 kg Gold: Ramazan Ishak Sari Silver: Andrian Grosul Bronze: Adlan Bataiev and Orkhan Abasov -86 kg Gold: Arif Ozen Silver: Patrik Szurovszki Bronze:Uri Kalashnikov and Demur Megeneishvili -92 kg Gold: Azamat Zakuev Silver: Askhab Hamzatov Bronze: Erhan Yaylaci and Ertugrul Agca -97 kg Gold: Zuriko Urtashvili Silver: Feyzullah Akturk Bronze: Yaraslau Slavikouski and Alen Khubulov -125 kg Gold: Hovhannes Maghakyan Silver: Yurii Idzinskyi Bronze: Rahid Hamidli and Oktay Gungor

Another Slovak makes it a great week for Slovakian tennis. Another Martin, with the first name Andrej, won the challenger tournament in Liberec .

A recap of the final day of the WCH and some thoughts about the whole championship: Men's singles: Kento Momota defeated Shi Yuqi (21-11, 21-13) Women's singles: Carolina Marín defeated P. V. Sindhu (21-19, 21-10) Men's Doubles: LI Junhui and Liu Yuchen defeated Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda (21-12, 21-19) Women's Doubles: Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara defeated Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota (19-21, 21-19, 22-20) Mixed Doubles: Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong defeated Wang Yilü and Huang Dongping (21-17, 21-19) Most of the favourites in the finals won, with the exception of the women's doubles. All of the winners, except women's singles, won their first gold medals at a WCH. Kento Momota became the first Japanese to win men's singles. In women's doubles, Japan broke China's dominance. China had won women's doubles every time since they first participated in 1983, except 1995 (South Korea won) and now 2018. Another historical achievement is Carolina Marín's victory in women's singles. Marín became the first European player in any category to win 3 gold medals at the World championships! The final medal table: China again won the medal table, like they have done since 2001. Japan won a record of 6 medals at a WCH. It's clear that Japan wants to make it shower with medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2 years in badminton. To some more negative facts, my country, Denmark, disappointed at this world championship by not winning any medals. This has only happened twice before. Though, there is one country where Nanjing was their Waterloo, and that is South Korea. South Korea has won a least one medal since they entered for the first time in 1983, but this edition became the end of that statistic. I guess it is time for South Korea to self-reflect on how to comeback to the top of international badminton again. On an end note, I will reflect a bit on the next edition. The WCH is coming back to Europe again. For the second time Switzerland is hosting the WCH (Lausanne 1995), and for the first time Basel is the host. Some of the questions for the next edition could be; Will more European nations compete for a place on the podium? Will China continue their dominance away from home soil? Will Japan continue their uprising in international badminton? Will India finally win a gold medal? Will Carolina Marín write a new chapter to her legendary status? Is South Korea no longer invited to the party of top nations in badminton? If not, who will then take their place in the spotlight? We will know much more in about a year after the finals have been played at 2019 BWF World championship in Basel. Zài jiàn Nanjing, and gruetzi Basel!

Results from day 4: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I3hPZeQIUDwqyPgqJ-UwJsdzP8pb8Gta Women's javelin https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14MmWNWCzyhoBRiqsIzL-erSefrzDvNSR