Yesterday in Kromeriz town square we had the WUOC Sprint Relay. A nice area with some old town and a large section of parkland which meant fast running and little navigational challenges. The winning team as many predicted was the Swiss team which comprised the two men who were part of the WOC Sprint Relay team, Martin Hubmann and Matthias Kyburz. They never looked in any danger and went into the fouth leg run by M Kyburz over 1 minute in the lead from Sweden.

The Australian team ran as probably expected and finished in 19th position. Some good experience was had from running in this new format at international level.

Mass start- Sprint Relay (Belinda Lawford)

Murray Scown-fourth leg

Bridget Anderson- third leg

Bryan Keely- second leg

Live results

http://splits.racom.cz/wsplits/races/wuoc.htm

More information see

http://news.worldofo.com/2014/08/12/wuoc-2014-all-you-need-to-know/

Today is the Long Distance event and we have all four men and four women competing. A fairly steep area with many changes of vegetation and tracks. A lot of climb on both courses, so it will be a very physical challenge as the long at international events always is.