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Russians Rule at the World Rogaining Championships

15.09.2008

The 8th World Rogaining Championships were held in Estonia last weekend, when 784 competitors started from the competition centre for a demanding 24 hour course. At the sharp end of the race the top teams collceted “only� 304 points out of the maximum 345. So, let’s congratulate the new World Champions from Russia – the partnership of Evgeny Dombrovskiy & Pavel Shestakov!

In short the race was dominated by Russian teams achieving first (Dombrovskiy-Shestakov) and third (Kalinin-Yachenko) place in the overall ranking leaving the expected trophy candidates of Forne-Monchy from New Zealand and Seidl-Boranek from the Czech Republic to second and sixth positions respectively.

The local hopes, the brothers Eensaar, lost out in the race for a podium place in a tight competition finishing with the same points total as Kalinin-Yachenko from Russia, but in a longer time. (Both scored 288 points.)

Top Positions

1. Evgeny Dombrovskiy, Pavel Shestakov (RUS) - 23:45:41 – 304 pts
2. Dennis de Monchy, Chris Forne (NZL) - 23:46:12 – 300 pts
3. Oleg Kalinin, Sergey Yaschenko (RUS) - 23:26:05 – 288 pts
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7. (mixed) Irina Safronova, Pavel Sysoev (RUS) - 23:22:45 – 280 pts
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21.(women) Alida Abola, Baiba Ozola (LAT) - 23:34:22 – 251 pts

The champions in veteran classes came from Estonia (men and mixed) and Latvia (women).

The rest of the results plus the splits and the map can be found from the official web site: at http://8wrc2008.rogain.ee/index.php. There you can also see the latest news and the after-race forum.

A full report of the race will follow in a few days time.

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