{"id":7508,"date":"2021-03-13T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2021-03-13T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T17:43:07","slug":"course-records-smashed-at-otillo-swimrun-world-championship-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7508","title":{"rendered":"Course records smashed at \u00d6TILL\u00d6 Swimrun World Championship 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conditions were ideal for a quick pace on the 75km long race course in the Stockholm archipelago but no one had expected the course records in each category men, mixed and women to be crushed with such incredible times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 13th edition of \u00d6TILL\u00d6 saw 159 teams of two from 25 nations tackling the 75 km long course, with 65 km trail running and 10 km open water swimming over and between 24 islands in the Stockholm archipelago. The stunning Stockholm archipelago consists of over 24,000 islands.<\/p>\n

Competitors of the \u00d6TILL\u00d6 Swimrun World Championship run and swim in the Baltic Sea, crossing some of the most beautiful parts of the archipelago, from the sailing mecca of Sandhamn to the \u201cisland of love\u201d, Ut\u00f6. They encounter summer homes and uninhabited islands, they run on slippery rocks, beautiful forest trails and swim with currents.\u00a0Racing with the elements of nature is unique. \u00d6TILL\u00d6 is long and it is painful. As a competitor you need to be well prepared, race it wisely with your team mate to excel and find a pace that will take you all the way to the finish line, making the cut offs before dark.<\/p>\n

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With many aspiring top teams, it was impossible to anticipate who would come out as winner of the 2018 edition of the \u00d6TILL\u00d6 Swimrun World Championship. It proved to be a true nail biter in both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s category with teams racing neck and neck through most of the extremely long course. Only seconds kept the three top men\u2019s teams apart for hours, until\u00a0Fredrik Axeg\u00e5rd\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Flores\u00a0(SWE) finally managed to pull away and set a new incredible record as the fastest team ever around the course with 7 hours, 39 minutes and 25 seconds, meaning 19 minutes faster than last year\u2019s course record!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t even in our wildest fantasies imagine to finish this fast! You don\u2019t really know what the other teams are doing so just have to keep going, even if it\u2019s painful and even if you have the worst cramps. We had decided not to let anyone go. We aimed for sub eight hours and a podium finish but this is just amazing!\u201d\u00a0said the elated team Axeg\u00e5rd and Flores at the finish line.<\/p>\n

The undefeated duo\u00a0Annika Ericsson\u00a0and\u00a0Kristin Larsson\u00a0(SWE) had a fierce battle against second placed women\u2019s team\u00a0Fanny Danckwardt\u00a0andDesir\u00e9e Andersson\u00a0(SWE), who led a big part of the course but finally finished 3,49 minutes after the leaders who beat their own record from 2016 by no less than 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201dToday\u2019s conditions were just perfect, warm water and no wind. We have been able to race properly without being stiff and cold as previous years. We also met really tough competition this year so we had to keep on pushing\u201d,\u00a0said Kristin Larsson at the finish at Ut\u00f6 after the team\u2019s third world championship gold in swimrun and record fast time in the women\u2019s category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0In the mixed category\u00a0Martin Flinta\u00a0(SWE) and\u00a0Helena Erbenova Karaskova\u00a0(CZE) held a comfortable lead over the second mixed team but raced with the top ten men\u2019s teams and finished 8th in total with the impressive time 8:16:15, which is 33 minutes faster than any previous mixed team at \u00d6TILL\u00d6. Flinta and Erbenova Karaskova have been unbeatable in the mixed category all year at the \u00d6TILL\u00d6 Swimrun World Series. They are still wearing the golden bib and if they win at \u00d6TILL\u00d6 1000 Lakes in end of September they will win 33 000 \u20ac (after six wins in a row at the \u00d6TILL\u00d6 World Series).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winners 2018:<\/p>\n

Men:\u00a0Fredrik Axeg\u00e5rd and Alex Flores (SWE), Team Sport Office, 7:39:25
Mixed:\u00a0Martin Flinta (SWE) and Helena Erbenova Karaskova (CZE), Thule Crew\/Wolffwear Swimrun, 8:16:15
Women:\u00a0Kristin Larsson and Annika Ericsson (SWE), Team Outdoor Experten, 8:56:26<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Photographers: Jakob Edholm \/ \u00d6TILL\u00d6 and Pierre Mangez \/ \u00d6TILL\u00d6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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