Navigation|Stora Tuna took Venloje’s message. Lahti Suunnitajat, represented by Konkari Minna Kaup, was third.
On Saturday the Finnish teams were able to celebrate in Kauhava, when two Finnish teams made it to the top three of the Venlo relay.
Kalevan Rasti won the second place in the competition that progressed yo-yo-like. Lahti Suunnitajat, on the other hand, kept the Finnish audience in suspense until the end, and clocked the last interval in third place.
The Swedish Stora Tuna ran first with a difference of more than four minutes Tove Alexandersson’s under.
Ida Haapala led Kalevan Rasti first to the third change. Left for the third leg Marika Teini was disappointed after his share.
“I had a really bad day physically and it’s a shame that I couldn’t keep the first place when such a great place was offered,” Teini said.
Ran on the anchor section Miia Niittynen had to fight at the top with two Swedes. IFK Göteborg’s first team, which held the top spot in the competition for almost the entire third leg, experienced a collision in the anchor leg when To Ingrid Lundanes an error occurred.
The Gothenburgers ended up in seventh place. Niittynen also said that he made a mistake at the end, but it did not affect the ranking.
“I made a big mistake at the end and I was afraid that teams have now passed from there. Fortunately, others had also made a mistake, so it didn’t hurt,” Niittynen revealed.
The team improved its ranking by a notch, when it took third place last year.
Kalevan Rasti’s team celebrated at the finish line.
Lahti Orientators the team pulled off a trick in the final moments when the 22-year-old Elisa Mattila lifted his team from sixth place to third.
“I just started to catch up with the teams in front, because I didn’t want to be left behind. At the end, there was such a boom, it was quite an exciting moment”, Mattila recalled at the finish.
Orienteering legend Minna Kauppi ran the third leg of the Lahteites. The top three was the team’s goal, but before the relay took off in the last moments, Kaupin’s faith, 41, was shaken.
“So at the end, we didn’t believe in big changes in the results, when we were sixth, and there were obstacles ahead that we didn’t have,” Kauppi explained.
The teammates were happy with Mattila’s final effort.
“It’s been about 17 years since Venlo was last in the top three. But I trusted our young Elisa like a mountain,” said nine-time world champion Kauppi.
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