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Elitserien/WRE
Bulletin 3, WRE July 25
PM sprint July 27 english
In consideration of the World Orienteering Championships in Trondheim, Norway 2010, we are offering a program with 5 days of orienteering designed to provide an appropriate technical and physical challenge within multiple orienteering disciplines.
Dates and distances:
Sunday July 25th - Long-distance at Arena Kilsbergen Winning time men 75-80 min, women 60-65 min. Start times appointed from apx 9.00am at 3 minute intervals. This stage has IOF status as a World Ranking Event, WRE. Bulletin 1&2
. Bulletin 3, WRE July 25 Monday July 26th - Middle-distance at Arena Dovra Sjöar Winning time men and women 35 min. Start times from 10.00am at 2 minute intervals. The top 10 from the spring eite series and the top 20 from Sunday's competition will be appointed the last 30 start times.
Tuesday July 27th (evening) - Sprint at Arena Stadsparken in the City of Örebro. A town and park sprint and major spectator event. Winning time men and women 13-14 min. PM sprint July 27 english
Wednesday - rest day
Thursday July 29th - Extended Middle Distance at Arena Käglan Winning time men 45 min and women 40 min. Start times from 10.00am at 2 minute intervals. The top 10 from the elite series list and the top 20 overall from the previous races will be appointed the final 30 starts.
Friday July 30th - Chasing start, shortened long-distance at Arena Örebro Universitet. Men start 11.00am and women 12.00. Winning time men 60 min, women 50 min
Martin Johansson vann O-Ringen 2009 i suverän stil. Foto: Mikael Fritzon
Classes 2010
D21E Elitserien
H21E Elitserien
80 start places are available in each class. The top 50 runners from the spring elite series qualify automatically. The Elite organisation will then appoint the remaining places to foreign runners and so called "wild cards".
Runners that do not qualify for these classes will be moved to the long classes, H21L and D21L. If there is more than one long class the runners will be divided based on ranking. The long class L1 will be included in the elite series if runners have been moved down to this class.
Prize money
502 000 SEK will be divided as follows:
Overall winnerin respective classes: 75,000 SEK, 2nd place: 50,000 SEK, 3rd place: 25,000 SEK, 4th place: 20,000 SEK, 5th place: 15,000 SEK, 6th place: 10,000 SEK, 7th place: 8,000 SEK, 8th place: 6,000 SEK, 9th place: 4,000 SEK, 10th place: 2,000 SEK.
On top of this there will be 72,000 SEK in daily prizes.
For stages 1, 2 and 4 the winner will be awarded 4,000 SEK, 2nd place 2,000 SEK and 3rd place 1,000 SEK.
The stage 3 winner will get 5,000 SEK, 2nd place 4,000 SEK, 3rd place 3,000 SEK, 4th place 2,000 SEK and 5th place 1,000 SEK.
Points in Elitserien
O-Ringen will award extra points compared to a normal competition within Elitserien.
The following breakdown will apply: 70 points to the winner, 2nd place = 60 points, 3rd place = 51 points, 4th place = 43 points, 5th place = 36 points, 6th place = 30 points, 7th place = 27 points, 8th place = 25 points, 9th place = 23 points, 10th place = 21 points, 11th place = 20 points, 12th place = 19 points and then one less point per position down to 30th position.
The first 4 stages will also give the opportunity for extra points for the "top 6" for each stage. Stage winner = 7 points, 2nd place = 5 points, 3rd place = 4 points, 4th place = 3 points, 5th place = 2 points and 6th place = 1 point.
This means that if you win all days, and overall 98 points will be awarded.
Long class L1 will count in the elite series if runners have been moved down to this course. The winners of stages 1-4 will be warded 2 points/stage and the top 10 will be awarded points counting down from 10 points based on the overall result. This means that if you win stages 1-4 and overall you will be awarded 18 points.
Special rules:
If a runner does not start, retires or is disqualified they cannot start the following stages. However, they can keep the elite series points and prize money they have already earned.
