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Thierrys hattrick

On a very technical and marshy day in Latvia Thierry Gueorgiou took his third EOC gold medal on the middle distance. His margin only 26 seconds to Martins Sirmais. The latvian runner was for the second EOC in a row very close to beating Thierry. Two years ago in Estonia…
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Sirmais was ahead of Gueorgiou until the very last controls. The terrain with low visibility in the large marshes proved tricky and maybe also unusual for many runners. A lot of athletes had direction problems and lost a lot of time. Se the map at Baptiste Rolliers blog. In the womens class Anne Margrethe Hausken was too careful and too slow in todays race, and ended seventh after being caught by Merja Rantanen who took a surprise silver medal. A great finnish day with a complete blue and hvite podium. Jukkola gold and Kauppi bronze- no surprise. The swedes was…

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