Discussion: JWOC

Links from the Live Center do not appear to be working. Sprints have been in progress for almost 20 minutes.

My browser is reporting scripts (presumably the ones which retrieve the results) are not responding.

There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and IT problems on the first day of a major international orienteering event.

There is a new link to online results at https://www.facebook.com/jwoc2014

Which at least has some results, but (a) it's as slow as my finish chute splits and (b) the auto-update still crashes my browser.

Have got results now, but I still can't get tracking to work.

Anyone like to post results here? I can't get things to load

They posted on the JWOC FB page that the rain is very strong and may cause internet problems.

The only thing I've seen is Barb's tweeted photo of the men's results. Perhaps she'll do that again soon. Austin looks good!

What is barbs twitter name? only saw her # and a search for them is dying on my phone haha

she's posting under #ousajrs and #JWOC2014

Stupid live website. I've got nothing.

Pouring rain here for the last 45 minutes. Calm now

Tim is in the lead. Few left to catch him.

GPS tracking now working!

Not for me - "Access to event is denied - will show after 2hrs 9mins".

something that seems to be working
http://live.jwoc2014.bg/index.php?name=comp&e=...

Facebook page (see link on my earlier post - is still the only reliable source of news. It now has a link to womens official results (which i haven't tried yet!).

Live results now working

and doesn't work!

Neither does andreais' link.

Will Hubsch 59th 16:11
Ethan Childs 68. 16:22
Austin Fowler 124. 18:06
Mates Sebo 128. 18:33
Michael Laraia 134. 18:41
Connor Frost 156. ???
CAN
Michael Svboda 123. 18:05
Adam woods 121. 17:53
Alexander Bergstrom 138. 18:52
Trevor Bray 139. 18:53
Robbie Graham 146. 19:41

it worked a few seconds ago, I should have printed to pdf.... gone now

Izzy was in 69th, Katrina a few places down from that...

who won??

JWOC website has gone down. They MUST do better on Wednesday!

Women
Izzy Bryant 69. 15:49
Katrina Weinmann 75. 16:02
Evalin Brautigam 103. 17:08
Elina Breton 115. 18:22
Melanie Sergiev 119. 18:48
Anne Wilkinson 121. 119:11
CAN
Pia Blake 96. 16:49

Sweden won re: tweet earlier. Sara Hagstrom 13:15

All the men are at the finish now.
Here are the winners:
1. Tim Robertson NZL 14:41
2. Piotr Parfianowicz POL 14:47
3. Anton Johanson SWE 14:51
via fb site .

MEN:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRDCOkD_DiPRHdFR...

WOMEN:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRDCOkD_DiPNDY1Y...

from FB:
1. Tim Robertson NZL 14:41
2. Piotr Parfianowicz POL 14:47
3. Anton Johanson SWE 14:51

1. Sara Hagstrom SWE 13:15
2. Heidi Martensson NOR 13:20
3. Miri Thrane Odum DEN 13:22

Hey MJ, this started out as an OZ post!

Didn't know that. Sorry. Love results down now, too. :(

good result by Oscar - 18th and only 53 seconds behind Tim.

Follow A.Child link above

OK :-)
Oscar 18th, Brodie 21st, Matt 30th, Henry 65th, Olle 78th, Ash 112th.

A.Child do you have a link to the womens results?

updated post above.

Updated results above for USA and can men

Thanks!

Asha 79, Anna 86, Nicola 90, Lanita 92, Olivia 100, Michele 113,

Good result for Oscar, but I reckon the splits might tell a story. 10 seconds down at radio 1, only lost 3 seconds to Tim from radio 2 to finish, but lost 40 seconds between radio 1 and 2.

Congratulation to the Aussies and of course Tim Robertston from NZ. Tim appeared to even have time for a mistake on the way to 12 according to the GPS track.

You had working GPS trace? I lost the results part way through and the gps tracking was giving me a countdown to some time that it still hasn't reached :(

@fletch - seems from a quick look that between R1 and R2 was the breaker. A few seemed to lose time/places there. Well done to the Aussie boys and to Kiwi winner. Solid result for Aussie girls - looking good for Middle?

really awful weather that changed through the start blocks made things pretty difficult and a bit of a lottery from what I've heard on twitter.

The long leg from 8-9 looks like it may have sorted them out. Although it is far from obvious I suspect that the right hand route may have been faster.

@andrewd - that's why you need good weather forecasts (and to plan your start blocks accordingly). Worked very nicely for me at World Uni Champs in 1994...

Congrats to Tim and all of NZ for another JWOC medal!

Question: how did you do it? What is making NZ so successful at JWOC?

Probably the question I've been asked most often since I moved to Aus ;)

In all honesty, our federation gives very little support. We lack a high performance structure, and don't have much/any money to work with.
The results we're seeing are athlete driven. Working together as both juniors and seniors: The passing and sharing around of experience and enthusiasm, which has seen increased motivation and competition at both national and regional junior and elite level. That's built on top of a good schools system, particularly where the juniors get good experience racing 'overseas', in Aussie, in the years prior to JWOC.

Incredibly proud of Tim and our whole team! Bring on the rest of the week!

First step is a strong schools scene - consistently strong in some regions, comes and goes in others but NZ and North Island school champs have been consistently among the biggest events on our calendar for some years. Then an annually selected team that competes against either Australian state school teams or in Oceania champs years against an Australian national school team both gives the kids a real goal to work towards, and those who make it, the experience of competing against stronger deeper fields in unfamiliar terrain.

However to go from that base to what we've seen in the last few years, comes down to the level of personal commitment and peer support that Lizzie describes above. Matt's 2012 gold was a direct result of a group of Auckland based young orienteers deciding that they weren't going to let a lack of Scandinavian style club training support stop them from making full use of the perfect terrain park on their doorstep with help of training ideas culled from the internet and customised maps with the help of OCAD. We're starting to see a culture change with other groups around the country following similar models in their own ways (it's no coincidence the 3 most highly rated guys going into this year's junior team are all Wellington derived, and we're starting to see a similar slightly younger group arise in Christchurch) In other words these guys are fully deserving of their success because they have put the work in themselves to make it happen.

anyone getting live results or tracking working for the long?

Live results, No.

Tracking is working for me
M:
http://tracksport.eu/map/map.html?id=98784

F:
http://tracksport.eu/map/map.html?id=98786

Live results seem to be working for the women (though auto-refresh isn't), it's just that radio 1 is a fair way into the course so only 3 people have registered times to date. I'm assuming that no men have yet reached radio 1.

thank you! I had to change my computer to sofia time

no butterfly for the women?

Does anyone in Oz get the gps coverage? I can only seem to get the live updates.

change your computer time to bulgaria time and it will work

does not seem to work - just does not want to load - what url is anyone using?

winning times may be longer ? seems like a tough day

two danish girls are not finishing?

Live results working. I used link from JWOC 2014 page. When Live Results page comes up, click on Lomg Distance.

Can't get tracking to work using my time or Bulgaria time. :(

not sure if it matters but I changed from IE to Chrome and live results seems to be working better

Interesting how the women's long was totally dominated by just 4 countries. ALL of the top 10 and 16 of the top 20 were from Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Finland. And 2 more of the top 20 from Lithuania. That is a pretty impressive grouping.

It would be so great to hear from the Juniors themselves about their races from the past two days. Especially since the tracking has not worked. Dave's photo's are great, as always, and Barb's video of Anne W. was great. For those of you who are there, please share it with the rest of us! :)
And, those USA uniforms make the juniors look fast even when they're standing still!

JWOC Sprint and Long maps are available here
http://www.jwoc2014.bg/index.php?name=maps