Orienteering World Championships 2005

The 16th World Ski Orienteering Championships were held from 5. March bis 12. March 2005 in the area around Levi in the municipality Kittila , Finland instead.

Men's

sprint

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Matti Keskinarkaus	12:01 min
2	SWE	Bertil Nordqvist	12:02 min
3	SWE	Tobias Åslund	12:03 min
4th	RUS	Eduard Chrennikow	12:04 min
5	SWE	Tomas Löfgren	12:07 min
6th	SWE	Bengt Leandersson	12:13 min

Defending champion: Eduard Chrennikow Length: 3.9 km Elevation gain: 75 Posts: 10 Participants: 63

Middle distance

space	country	athlete	time
1	RUS	Ruslan Grizan	40:53 min
	RUS	Andrei Gruzdew	40:53 min
3	RUS	Eduard Chrennikow	41:13 min
4th	CZE	Ondrej Vodrazka	41:35 min
5	SWE	Peter Arnesson	41:46 min
6th	FIN	Arto Lilja	41:48 min

Defending champion: Tomas Löfgren Length: 12.7 km Elevation gain: 280 Posts: 21 Participants: 63

Long distance

space	country	athlete	time
1	RUS	Eduard Chrennikow	1:35:02 h
2	RUS	Andrei Gruzdew	1:35:15 h
3	FIN	Jukka Lanki	1:35:24 h
4th	RUS	Ruslan Grizan	1:37:19 h
5	SWE	Tobias Åslund	1:37:23 h
6th	NOR	Tommy Olsen	1:37:45 h

Defending champion: Eduard Chrennikow Length: 25.5 km Elevation gain: 790 Posts: 37 Participants: 59

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	RUS	Andrei Gruzdew Ruslan Grizan Eduard Chrennikow	1:15:49 h
2	FIN	Jukka Lanki Arto Lilja Matti Keskinarkaus	1:16:20 h
3	SWE	Tobias Åslund Bertil Nordqvist Peter Arnesson	1:18:23 h
4th	SUI	Peter Mosimann Boris Fischer Pascal Messikommer	1:22:34 h
5	CZE	Jan Lauerman Jan Sedivy Ondrej Vodrazka	1:24:51 h
6th	NOR	Eivind Tonna Anders Hauge Tommy Olsen	2:26:02 h

Defending champion: Wassili Glucharew , Andrei Gruzdew , Ruslan Grizan , Eduard Chrennikow Length: 3 rounds of 7.5 to 7.8 km Elevation meters: 220 positions each: 14 participants each : 15 relays

Ladies

sprint

space	country	athlete	time
1	NOR	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	13:16 min
2	FIN	Erja Jokinen	13:18 min
3	FIN	Katja Rajaniemi	13:33 min
4th	SWE	Ida Wikström-Holmgren	13:35 min
5	SWE	Marie Lund	13:37 min
6th	RUS	Tatyana Vlasova	13:45 min

Defending champion: Tatyana Vlasova Length: 3.6 km Elevation gain: 60 Positions: 10 Participants: 44

Middle distance

space	country	athlete	time
1	RUS	Tatyana Vlasova	37:22 min
2	FIN	Erja Jokinen	37:27 min
3	NOR	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	38:22 min
	SWE	Stina Grenholm	38:22 min
5	RUS	Irina Onishchenko	38:35 min
6th	SWE	Marie Lund	39:39 min

Defending champion: Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik Length: 10.1 km Elevation gain : 175 Posts: 17 Participants: 44

Long distance

space	country	athlete	time
1	RUS	Tatyana Vlasova	1:14:08 h
2	RUS	Natalia Tomilova	1:15:00 h
3	RUS	Olga Shevchenko	1:15:05 h
4th	NOR	Marte Reenaas	1:17:12 h
5	SWE	Marie Lund	1:17:19 h
6th	RUS	Irina Onishchenko	1:18:11 h

Defending champion: Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik Length: 18.1 km Elevation gain : 520 Posts: 26 Participants: 43

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	NOR	Kjersti Reenaas Marte Reenaas Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	1:17:11 h
2	SWE	Marie Lund Ingela Jönsson Stina Grenholm	1:17:50 h
3	FIN	Hannele Valkonen Erja Jokinen Liisa Anttila	1:18:16 h
4th	RUS	Olga Shevchenko Natalia Tomilova Tatiana Vlasova	1:19:51 h
5	CZE	Eva Bohmova Lenka Hruskova Barbora Chunikova	1:28:48 h
6th	SUI	Regula Mühlemann Vroni König-Salmi Yvonne Gantenbein	1:29:07 h

Defending champions: Hannele Valkonen , Erja Jokinen , Liisa Anttila Length: 3 laps of 5.8 to 6.1 km Elevation meters: 185 positions each: 13 participants each : 10 relays

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	6th	2	2	10
2	Norway	2	-	1	3
3	Finland	1	3	3	7th
4th	Sweden	-	2	3	5

Most successful participant

space	Athlete	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Andrei Gruzdew	2	1	-	3
2	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	2	-	1	3
3	Eduard Chrennikow	2	-	-	2
3	Ruslan Grizan	2	-	-	2
3	Tatyana Vlasova	2	-	-	2
6th	Matti Keskinarkaus	1	1	-	2

Web links

• Results on lazarus.elte.hu
• Results on orienteering.org