Kaleva’s Rasti was fourth best Finnish club. Marika Teini lost the fight in third place to second in the last cross.
17:24 • Updated 6:08 PM
IFK Gothenburg celebrates its first victory in Venlo’s message. Swedish national team navigator, world champion in message design and sprinting Sara Hagström got to the anchor section in three minutes, not looking back.
Hagström anchors his team’s blue-and-white colors to the finish line more than four minutes before the second Swedish club, IFK Lidingö, which ran as an anchor Veronika Kalinina.
– It feels great, we have been looking for a profit for a long time and have been close many times, Hagström was delighted.
Gothenburg has long been close to victory. In the previous two Venlo posts in 2019 and 2021, it ranked second. In 2020, Jukola was not organized.
Gothenburg rose by the second leg Sanna Fasthin with a cannonball to the tip. Victoria Hästad Björstad came in first in 18th place. The difference with the top was 1.22. Fasth’s slipper was eating, and he drove NTNUI Ane Dykornin after the middle of the share caught up and went to their spending.
In the third leg Elin Månsson progressed flawlessly and widened the gap to three minutes.
Kaleva Rasti is the best Finnish team
The best Finnish team was the fourth-placed Kaleva Rasti, who rose from sixth place in the third stage of the podium competition. Miia Niittysen and anchor Marika Teinin with strong performances.
The teenager struggled with OK Kåren for third place in virtually the entire anchor section Lisa Risbyn with. Risby escaped at the end when Teini made a mistake in the second to last cross, and the Swede brought his team to the finish line in three. The Swedish teams took all the podium places.
– I looked at the elevation curves in the wrong direction. The tire began to weigh, and my eyes blurred. Vex. Note that I’ve invested in sprinting, the step felt heavy in the woods, said the teenager aiming for the World Sprint Championships starting a week from now.
In addition to Teini, Kaleva Rast’s team ran Silja Kauppinen, Siiri Silvennoinen, Miia Niittynen.
Lahti Orienteering rose to the second leg of the multiple world champion, who has already officially ended his career. Minna Kaupin, 39, with hard performance third. Lahti Karoliina Ukskoski was 10th in the opening leg and was 54 seconds behind.
The third leg ran Anna Närhi sent a young national team navigator Elisa Mattilan in a hard place in the third anchor section. The difference to Gothenburg was three minutes, but the second to the heavenly IFK Lidingö was only about 30 seconds.
However, Mattila fell into error when he left 90 degrees in the wrong direction from the eighth cross.
It has been 12 years since the Finnish team won. The Pyrene of Tampere rose to the highest podium in 2010.
NTNUI, who came in at the top of the first leg and led the second leg for a long time, was disqualified when Ane Dykorn, a runner in the second leg, marked the wrong cross.
1. IFK Gothenburg, SWE, Victoria Hästad Björstad, Sanna Fasth, Elin Månsson, Sara Hagström 3.05.48
2. IFK Lidingö, SWE, Alice Hugosson, Emma Bjessmo, Adela Finstrlova, Veronika Kalinina +4.23
3. OK Kåre, SWE, Vilma Von Krusenstierna, Martina Ruch, Kajsa Risby, Lisa Risby +5.49
4. Kalevan Rasti, +6.17
5. Nydalens SK, NOR, +9.02
6. Lahti Orienteering, +9.06
7. Tampereen Pyrinto, +10.14
8. SK Pohjantähti, +10.20
9. Paimion Rasti, +10.59
10. Helsinki Orienters, +12.02