Discussion: USA at WMOC

The World Masters Orienteering Championships - with age classes from F/M35+ - was held August 6-13 in Estonia. Twenty six athletes from the US competed. Special note to Sharon Crawford - with 6th place in the long and 7th place in the sprint, Sergey Velichko - with a 7th place finish in the sprint and 18th in the long, and Natalia Deconescu with a 20th place finish in the long!

Link to results: http://wmoc2016.ee/competition/results/

Full sprint results:

Class	Place	Name	Club	Time	%Back
W35-A	15	Cristina Luis	Nydalens SK	0:16:55	33%
M40-A	24	Eric Bone	COC	0:17:07	22%
M40-B	9	Vladimir Gusiatnikov	Omega	0:17:04	22%
W40-A	30	Marie-Josee Parayre	BAOC	0:26:07	85%
M50-A	7	Sergey Velichko	CTOC	0:14:08	9%
M50-A	30	Gregory Balter	DVOA	0:16:07	24%
M55-A	32	Tom Svobodny	MVOC	0:15:53	21%
M55-A	60	Tapio Karras	BAOC	0:17:58	37%
M55-B	17	Tom Hollowell	OK Tyr	0:17:06	13%
M55-C	45	Kean Williams	COC	0:38:39	142%
W55-A	76	Eileen Breseman	COC	0:26:00	90%
W55-B	58	Dorina Nimigean	NEOC	0:30:09	77%
M60-B	33	Rick Breseman	COC	0:16:47	19%
W60-A	24	Natalia Deconescu	CAOC	0:15:21	26%
W60-C	8	Louise Madrid	BAOC	0:21:42	55%
W60-C	16	Susan Hawkes-Teeter	EMPO	0:24:08	72%
W60-C	24	Rhonda Deweese	WCOC	0:30:45	119%
M65-A	48	Jeff Saeger	NEOC	0:16:28	28%
M65-B	54	Charlie Deweese	WCOC	0:19:52	31%
M65-C	1	Dennis Wildfogel	BAOC	0:13:13	0%
M65-C	36	Walter Siegenthaler	COK	0:16:22	24%
M65-D	29	George Minarik	BAOC	0:19:22	35%
M65-E	2	Philip Hawkes-Teeter	EMPO	0:36:25	179%
W65-B	29	Judy Karpinski	NEOC	0:18:40	21%
W65-B	31	Leslie Minarik	BAOC	0:18:57	23%
W70-A	7	Sharon Crawford	RMOC	0:13:34	12%

Full long results:

Class	Place	Name	Club	Time	%Back
W35-A	25	Cristina Luis	Nydalens SK	1:22:39	52%
M40-A	30	Eric Bone	COC	1:21:28	31%
M40-B	13	Vladimir Gusiatnikov	Omega	1:22:10	14%
W40-B	3	Marie-Josee Parayre	BAOC	0:54:20	4%
M50-A	18	Sergey Velichko	CTOC	1:13:46	13%
M50-A	39	Greg Balter	DVOA	1:23:15	28%
M55-B	-	Tapio Karras	BAOC	DNF
M55-C	-	Tom Svobodny	MVOC	0:47:10	8%
M55-C	55	Kean Williiams	COC	1:23:38	92%
W55-B	29	Eileen Breseman	COC	0:54:42	43%
W55-B	54	Dorina Nimigean	NEOC	1:06:58	75%
M60-B	29	Rick Breseman	COC	0:59:58	23%
W60-A	20	Natalia Deconescu	CAOC	0:53:33	39%
W60-C	19	Susan Hawkes-Teeter	EMPO	1:36:11	145%
M65-B	3	Jeff Saeger	NEOC	0:56:49	5%
M65-C	42	Walter Siegenthaler	COK	1:08:40	29%
M65-D	6	Dennis Wildfogel	BAOC	0:50:15	5%
M65-D	66	Charlie Deweese	WCOC	1:31:00	91%
M65-E	-	Philip Hawkes-Teeter	EMPO	1:15:47	107%
M65-E	7	George Minarik	BAOC	1:17:53	113%
W65-B	73	Judy Karpinski	NEOC	1:22:29	95%
W65-C	23	Leslie Minarik	BAOC	1:13:02	88%
W70-A	6	Sharon Crawford	RMOC	0:43:38	16%

Note that next year's World Masters will be in New Zealand in late April:
http://attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_32527

Thanks!

Nice summary, Ian. Lots of fun to follow, but I didn't realize just how many Americans participated until now - awesome!

Great stuff! Congrats to all who went. New Zealand is *highly* tempting for next year!

Hmmm...might have to declare that a training camp event...