Ramblers Orienteering Club

REPORT: Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park – September 9, 2007

It was great weather for Orienteering: not too hot, not too cold, and no rain. There wasn’t a large turnout of participants but almost all of the 60 persons (including children) who took part successfully completed their course and there were no mispunches on any control cards.

Most of our Club’s best Orienteers were present to take part on COURSE 4, the ‘Long-Advanced’ and fast finish times were expected – and were achieved: 4^th place went to Stephen Novosad 1:13:58; 3^rd – Dmitri Golovanov, 1:08:54; 2^nd – Thomas Kneubühler, 0:59:40, but 1st place couldn’t have been foretold, unless we knew a little more about the tall Swede who was in Montreal for only a short business stay.

Andreas Johansson is a world ranked Orienteer with many years of experience. He has placed near the top at several WRE (World Ranking Events) in Europe this year, winning one and placing 3^rd in another. Our event must have appeared pretty easy. Even so, he did remark that he liked our map and the 7.5 km course – even if he spent only 49 minutes and 47 secs enjoying it (!) Andreas expended another 30½ minutes of energy later on to run the 5 km #3 ‘Short-Advanced’ course.

The International O Federation statistics currently rank Andreas 137^th in the World amongst elite competitors. Mike Smith, Canadian Champion, is ranked 201. Amongst the top women Canadian, Pam James, is 56^th – pretty darn good for a North American!!

Official leaders on our COURSE 3 (Andreas’ time, being a second run, was unofficial) were 3 more Ramblers members: André Fekecs (1:17:03), Oliver Cordoba (1:18:48) and Jeff Blezius (1:25:43). Jessica Auer, a first time Orienteer, led the field on the 4 km COURSE 2, completing it in 0:58:30. 2^nd was the family team of Pierre Mauger and Anne Emard, with 13-months old, Elizabeth, in a backpack.

Stanley Lee ran COURSE ONE in 0:37:30, followed by family, Sylvain Harel and Marie-France Desrosiers with their 5-year old daughter, Catherine (0:47:00).

THANKS to Bruce G, Elaine S, Stephen N and Christian Reber, who helped with the meet, mainly with timing and flag pick-ups.

J

ORIENTEERING RESULTS
Parc Nature Bois-de-Liesse — September 9, 2007
	4 — LONG-ADVANCED 7.45 km (22 controls)
			O-Club	Time
1	Andreas	Johansson	Goteborg-Majorna O.K.	00:49:47
2	Thomas	Kneubühler	Ramblers	00:59:40
3	Dmitri	Golovanov	Ramblers	01:08:54
4	Stephen	Novosad	Ramblers	01:13:58
5	Bruce	Glen	Ramblers	01:19:06
6	Ralph	Seyfert	—	01:21:39
7	Pierre	Mauger (2nd course)	Ramblers	01:22:25
8	Bertrand	Lemaitre	—	01:46:13
9	Sylvain	Harel	Ramblers	01:51:25
10	Monica	Kolstein	—	03:20:54
	3 — Short-Advanced 5.0 km (14 controls)
1	André	Fekecs	Ramblers	01:17:03
2	Oliver	Cordoba	Ramblers	01:18:48
3	Jeff	Blezius	Ramblers	01:25:43
4	Raymond	Roy	—	01:27:32
5	Andreas	Rutkauskas	—	01:37:25
6	Elaine	S	Ramblers	02:32:26
7	Josée & François	Beaudet	—	03:24:00
.	Andreas	Johansson (2nd course)	Goteborg-Majorna O.K.	00:30:30
	2 — Intermediate 4.0 km (14 controls)
1	Jessica	Auer		00:58:30
2	Pierre	Mauger &	Ramblers	01:20:20
	Anne	Emard + baby Elizabeth
3	Céline	Périer		01:37:12
4	Vickie	Mortensen &	Ramblers	01:43:12
	Bernard	Meehan
5	Marie-Hélène	Tremblay &		01:43:15
	Alain	Gauthier
6	Marc	Davignon		01:52:54
7	Les	Davis		01:55:51
8	Thomas	Perrault		01:58:50
10	Dénis	Prévost &	Ramblers	02:17:22
	Johanne	Corbeil + children: 13,10,8
11	Chantal	Pharand &	Ramblers	02:19:10
	Marc	De Laplante + 2 child: 8 &5
12	Michele	Merette &		02:36:00
	Dominic	Maheu &
	Johanne	Lefebvre
13	Jean-Pierre	Valois &		not timed
	Chantal	Maillot
.	Sylvie	Perrault		DNF
	1 — Novice 2.8 km (12 controls)
1	Stanley	Lee	Ramblers	00:37:30
2	Sylvain	Harel &	Ramblers	00:47:00
	Marie-France	Desrosiers + Catherine, 5
3	Lucia	Cantore &		01:00:00
	Nathalie	Brazeau
4	Kerry	Daniels		01:06:01
5	George	Kiss + Daniel, 5		01:15:20
6	Daniel	Brodeur		01:24:14
7	Anna	Bratulic		01:27:31
8	Alain	Sin-Chan &	Ramblers	01:49:00
	Jo Anne	Sia + children: 8, 5 & 3
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