11ERC 2014 Estonia - Report and video

11th European Rogaining Championships were held last week-end in South-East corner of Estonia with the event center in Orava village.
612 participants in 289 teams from 15 countries marks the new record number of participants at ERCs.

The terrain was typical for that part of Estonia - pine and spruce dominated forest, relatively flat with some areas of esker formations and higher slopes of Piusa river valley, some large peat bogs and numerous smaller marshes, relatively well developed track and forest ride network.
Good weather conditions and only 4 hours of darkness contributed to the high speed of top teams.

The course-setter had placed 98 controls on the terrain with several controls in picturesque locations.
The high number of controls contributed to a high number of different route plans chosen by the top teams.
While the navigational task was relatively easy (with some more demanding controls), finding of the optimal route plan was a challenge.

One team was able to collect all 98 controls in 23 hours and 8 minutes covering a beeline distance of over 142 km and an actual distance of nearly 170 km. The new European rogaining champions are Timmo Tammemäe and Rait Pallo from Estonia with the maximum score of 358 points. Was the course too short? Well, perhaps not. Simply Timmo and Rait were too good. They are the silver medalists from WRC2013. Rait had earlier won also bronze medals at ERC2010, ERC2011 and WRC2010. Brothers Silver and Rain Eensaar (EST), the World Rogaining Champions from 2012 and 2013 did also a good race covering about 128 km beeline and 160 km actual distance, but had to omit 3 controls and scored 348 points which was worth only silver medals this time. Oleg Kalinin from Russia, a bronze medal winner from WRC2008, WRC2012, WRC2013 and ERC2012, added another bronze medal in his medal collection, pairing up this time with Andrey Shvedov, who is the WRC2012 and WRC2013 winner in XO category. They scored 329 points. The best mixed team was Nadezhda Ermakova and Artem Rostovtsev from Russia with 308 points, and the best women's team Anna Burlinova and Natalia Zimina from Russia scoring 303 points.

The event was organised by an adventure club X-Team.
Full results: http://www.erc2014.com/erc2014-tulemused/
The map and GPS tracks of selected 30 teams: http://sportrec.navirec.com/ui/#19nsspp

12th European Rogaining Championships will be held in June 2015 in the Czech Republic. [Editors note 12ERC 2015 poster is now available]

Report by
Lauri Leppik

 

Editor - Video of the event has been published along with event photographs

11ERC 2014 - Results and - see where some went - Live Tracking

Results for 11ERC2014 Estonia have been published - top ten plus Open top three re  provided below - and you can see where some teams went during the event as the Live Tracking remains available. Congratulations to the athletes and organisers.

 

Place

NR

Class

Name

Members

Time
Points
Penalty

Result

Place in class

1

10

MO

ACE Salomon

Timmo Tammemäe M 29 EST
Rait Pallo M 39 EST

23:07:42
358
0

358

MO:1.

2

72

MO

VAUDE/MATKaSPORT

Rain Eensaar M 39 EST
Silver Eensaar M 35 EST

23:24:29
348
0

348

MO:2.

3

45

MO

Omega-Vipsport.ru

Oleg Kalinin M 39 RUS
Andrey Shvedov M 42 RUS

23:42:06
329
0

329

MO:3.

4

125

MV

Mercury

Margus Klementsov M 42 EST
Mati Korrol M 40 EST

23:45:40
319
0

319

MO:4. MV:1.

5

117

MV

Käbi

Alar Abram M 41 EST
Armo Hiie M 46 EST

23:44:38
317
0

317

MO:5. MV:2.

6

16

MO

Czech Republic

Tomas Udrzal M 34 CZE
Stepan Skripnik M 34 CZE

23:30:31
314
0

314

MO:6.

7

26

MO

Ilmäraeksimatud

Sander Mirme M 33 EST
Ilmar Ansko M 41 EST

23:41:41
309
0

309

MO:7.

8

76

MO

Võsaneks V

Märt Roosaare M 27 EST
Riivo Roose M 26 EST

23:35:15
308
0

308

MO:8.

9

247

XO

Salomon RusXO

Nadezhda Ermakova W 25 RUS
Artem Rostovtsev M 36 RUS

23:54:30
308
0

308

XO:1.

10

9

MO

Aarain

Tanel Kalm M 29 EST
Ain Fjodorov M 41 EST

24:00:28
309
-1

308

MO:9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

156

WO

Blondie

Natalia Zimina W 35 RUS
Anna Burlinova W 34 RUS

23:41:07
303
0

303

WO:1.

16

248

XO

Sine

Neeme Loorits M 45 EST
Sirli Parm W 32 EST

23:53:09
300
0

300

XO:2.

20

294

XV

R24.LV

Valters Kaminskis M 46 LAT
Anita Liepina W 46 LAT

23:47:11
295
0

295

XO:3. XV:1.

28

197

WV

SPLAV - X-Race.info

Nina Mikheeva W 45 RUS
Marina Galkina W 46 RUS

23:55:37
287
0

287

WO:2. WV:1.

39

167

WO

Ozona Unda

Alda Brazune W 32 LAT
Aiva Jakovela W 37 LAT

23:12:31
269
0

269

WO:3.

 

17th Czech Rogaining Championship (CRC) - Krivoklat Castle - CZE

The following information was received from Jan Tojar, IRF WRC Manager of the Czech Republic regarding the 17th running of the Czech Rogaining Championship - CRC -"Beautiful landscape surrounding the Krivoklat castle (50 km W from
Prague) hosted the 17th Czech Rogaining Championships. Deep forest
there is going to be declared a National Park in close future.

The race attracted 293 participants from 8 countries (Australia,
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland and
Slovakia), 64 of them were newcomers. 6 hour race enjoyed more than
ten firefighters from the hash house village Broumy - all of them were
excited :-). The three oldest firemen including their Major
estabilished team "Triostar" and absolved the race in T-shirt made on
the occassion of the rogaine:

https://plus.google.com/photos/106210818202318735165/albums/5895337379791959297/5895339380676765618?banner=pwa&pid=5895339380676765618&oid=106210818202318735165

Final results, map and photos can be found on the race website:
http://www.rogaining2013.cz/ "

 
 

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