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Krepsta and Hagman winners at the WUOC middle distance

Simonas Krepsta and Line Hagman won the middle distance at the World University Championships in Slovakia today. Whereas the Lithuanian Krepsta - who some will remember as the winner of one of the Elitserien races this spring - did a magnificent run, and had nearly 2 minutes margin down to French Philippe Adamski in second spot and Norwegian Stig Alvestad in third spot - the race in the women class was much tigher. The Norwegian Line Hagman - won only 13 seconds before Russian Larisa Stanchenko and 38 seconds before Finish Maria Rantala after a very good last part of the race for Hagman.

Krepsta a coming star
Simonas Krepsta (see runner profile) is a coming star in the orienteering world. Being just outside the podium at the middle distance at both WOC 2005 in Japan and WOC 2006 in Denmark - both times 7th place - he showed that he masters the middle distance by taking this clear victory today. This is a runner we will see more of in the years to come.

"Unknown Norwegian" at the top at the middle distance
Line Hagman (see statistics from norwegian championships) - a Norwegian runner who is not very experienced internationally, and who has also no top 6 positions in norwegian championships at daytime - managed to take the victory in the womens class after a tight finish. After two thirds of the race, Hagman was in fourth position, more than one minute behind Maria Rantala. In the last part of the course Hagman fought her way to the top - to her best international performance until now. Behind Hagman, Stanchenko and Rantala it was also tight, with Karianne Ruud (NOR), Radka Brozkova (CZE) and Iliana Shandurkova (BUL) all finishing within one minute behind Hagman.

Very different terrain
The terrain in todays middle distance was very different from the Karst terrain the runners met in the long distance, but was nevertheless demanding. Map from the middle distance:

Men

Women

Results
Full results are to be found at the official WUOC page.

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