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Ski Orienteering World Cup: Novikova and Khrennikov take Sprint titles
First overall winners of the Sprint World Cup, a new competition this year with the best five counting out of six events, are Olga Novikova, Kazakhstan and Eduard Khrennikov, Russia, the former by just 2 points and the latter by the much bigger margin of 38. Neither athlete, however, was victorious in the races today.
Russia’s Natalya Tomilova triumphed in the women’s race with a very impressive 32 second gap down to Marte Reenaas, Norway. Olga Novikova was third today, a further 22 seconds down. Josefine Engström, the leader in the standings before today and competing on home terrain, could only manage 6th place, 1½ minutes down on the winner’s time.
Staffan Tunis, Finland had an 8 second win over Eduard Khrennikov, bringing him up to 2nd place in the overall standings. Third today was the improving Norwegian Eivind Tonna.
Leading Results
Women
1. Natalya Tomilova RUS 15.33
2. Marte Reenaas NOR 16.05
3. Olga Novikova KAZ 16.27
4. Kajsa Rickardsson SWE 16.33
5. Anastasia Kravchenko RUS 16.40
6. Josefine Engström SWE 17.03
Men
1. Staffan Tunis FIN 17.11
2. Eduard Khrennikov RUS 17.19
3. Eivind Tonna NOR 17.29
4. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 17.31
5. Lars Moholdt NOR 17.40
6. Kiril Veselov RUS 17.42
Leading Final Standings
Women
1. Olga Novikova KAZ 196
2. Natalya Tomilova RUS 194
3. Josefine Engström SWE 188
Men
1. Eduard Khrennikov RUS 210
2. Staffan Tunis 172
3. Andrey Grigoriev RUS 166
