Starts in the long distance, sprint and tech race - and between the races, Ole sends us a relaxed summary: "So the first day was pretty exhausting with all the heats for the tech race and the 200 metre sprint. So six races in total, which I realised in the evening. I went to bed early to prepare for the LD. The organisation here is great, all the starts run perfectly and to the second. In the long distance race itself, I got off to a good start and was able to maintain my position in the leading group.
The speed was high, around 10.5 km/h
Everyone kept doing a bit of lead work, so the pace was correspondingly high, around 10.5 kilometres per hour. In the last two kilometres, Manuel and I were able to pull away slightly. Manuel upped the pace again at the end, but I could barely keep up and had enough of a gap to third place to take the silver medal. Today I'm back for the 200 metres in the B final. I'm happy to have got this far as my focus this year is more on the long distance races. On Saturday I'll see what happens in the A final in the tech race."
Congratulations on being runner-up in the European Championships and we wish you continued success!
Results to date:
Open Men
1st Manuel Hoyuela ESP 47:44.84
2. Ole Schwarz GER +10.52
3rd Christian Andersen DEN +18.54
Open Women
1st Natalia Novitskaia AIN 54:24.30
2nd Reka Slekta HUN +3.49
3rd Kyriaki Logotheti GRE +5.80
Junior Men
1st Zeno Szabo HUN 50:50.05
2nd Marlon Daskiran GER +24.06
3rd Nikolaos Malekakis GRE +44.77
Junior Women
1st Csillag Kocsis HUN 54:07.94
2nd Skadi Langbein GER +1:32.20
3rd Sveva Sabato ITA +1:36.36
Masters Men
1st Geogrios Fragkos GRE 50:01.93
2. Martin Teichmann GER +1.89
3rd Gabor Szabo HUN +1:58.27
Masters Women
1st Vira Lemekha ITA 57:25.43
2nd Penny Tsaoutou GRE +38.80
3rd Katerina Trdlova CZE +1:03.31
