Hey King of King Charles and Queen of the noble Aatles

Top summer competitions in Finland on ski roll with a parterre royale that included for once all the best Finnish skaters, biathletes and combinatists with the addition of some guests present at Vuokatti to hold summer training camps.

Thursday 29 June 2017 10 minutes reading time

In a rare joint planning event by the three major Finnish winter disciplines not mentioned in the annals of Suomen Hiihtoliito for many years to this part and in the celebratory centennial of the nation of the thousand lakes the end of June 2017 will be remembered for a An almost historic event that involved cross-country skiing, the Nordic Combined and the biathlon "Made in Finland". This rare sporting event took place in the small town of Vuokatti - the center of the city of Northern Finland - where for once it happened that fenists, combatters and biathletes had national training camps at the same time and that at the end of their camp was placed the most noble competition Finnish summer on skiroll: La Vuokatti Aateli Race. For those who do not chew the language of those parts, we can translate it into noble ". And with the impressive background of Vuokatti Castle, the most noble Finnish athletes of the three disciplines: MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen, Herola, Hirvonen, Heikkinen, Saarinen, Niskanen and Hannu Manninen challenged the three competitions scheduled in the two days of Finnish races. The program included a 2km prologue on the first day skiroll with intervals for both sexes. The next day double engagement with a 3km (4.5k for men) country race mass start and grand finale with gundersen conclusive skating (10km for women and 15km for men) based on the times of the first two races and With final climb of the last 3km of the hill overlooking Vuokatti. Women's competition: In the cross-country racing competitions, the victorious infiltrations of the MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen biathlete can almost no longer be a surprise given the many national titles and the two previous victories in the most prestigious Finnish summer competition. And for the third time in a career, the 34-year-old RistijÃ¤rvi again lifted the scepter reserved for the winner by slamming Finnish specialists. Kaisa was already in the lead after the first day in the prologue with a very convincing test in which he set off Mononen of 7 "and the young talent Eveliina Piippo of 12". The more detached veteran Saarinen 17 "and Kerttu Niskanen to 20" still in rake after the change of personal coach. This morning, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen's defeat at MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen, who took off in the final Saari and Matintalo both with a good past in national athletic competitions. In the afternoon the grand finale with Finland's most victorious biathlete, which started with 17 "on Saarinen in the final gundersen uphill. Always in control from the start and without the will to overcome the two-time winner of the crystal ball kept the 16 "fin on the finish line on a Saarinen who was said to be very satisfied with the current level of its preparation. For the third place only in the last few meters, the rewarding but convincing Marijaana PitkÃ¤nen has surpassed a Piippo ever closer than the top positions. Now for Kaisa Closing Week of Workouts here in Vuokatti and then departure for the Alps where will continue the preparation between Obertilliach and Anterselva before attending the Frassinoro Summer biathlon festival. Final Ranking Women: 1. Kaisa MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen 2. Aino-Kaisa Saarinen +16.7 3. Marjaana PitkÃ¤nen +29.4 4. Evelin Piippo +32.6 5. Anna-Kaisa Island +54.3 8. Laurien Van der Graaf SUI +2.05,6 9. Johanna Matintalo +2.41.8 Men's Competition: After disregarding the noble race of the Kainuu region for a few years and last year's second place Matti Heikkinen started very well the new season that will take him as a protagonist to the Korean Olympics with his first successful career in the Finnish summer competition. For Matti, he was treated to a good test bench to test his condition before continuing on the preparations for the Alpine Alps and then to play the Blink festivalen in Norway at the end of July. Happo had closed in second place for just 2 "behind the" straw fire "HyvÃ¤rinen - did not leave the next day - in two kilometers on the ski roll of the Tuesday prologue. The first act of battle of the other winter sports disciplines of biathletics with Hiihdensalo (32 "), Huhtala (39") Gronman (at 48 "), the most incisive of Ilkka Herola (at 45") Mutru (at 51 ") Hirvonen (53 ') and Manninen (1' '18) evidently still lagging behind in his schedule after Planica's only camp at the beginning of the month. Czech surprise in 4.5km along the dirt rails with victory in Martin Jaks' s mass start race, which had little ahead of Ojansivu and eighteen Remi Lindholm on the finish line. In lightweight Heikkinen finishes 17th to 30th while riders combine with Herola 28 Â°, Mutru 35 Â°, do better than Gronman biathlet at 1 '02 ". He removed the shoe races and fired the skiroll again for Matti Heikkinen just a few kilometers to resume Luusua's nearly thirty years and then hit him in the last 200m where slopes became more 'casual. He closes the podium on the podium of twenty-two with a good junior but never confirmed under 23 Joni MÃ¤ki. In a great sprint on the finishing touch, a brilliant Ilkka Herola, author of a great comeback that sees him close to the 14th final position and again confirms after the excellent athletic tests in the Slovenian camp that next year will have to 'consider very often Its name among the combinatists who will most frequently experience the best skiing time. Also Leevi Mutru finishes 21st and the 26th Gronman biathlete. Hannu Manninen finished 50th with the impression that he had not pulled his neck too much after the remarkable detachment accumulated in the first two segments of the Atelier. Final Ranking Men: 1. Matti Heikkinen 2. Ari Luusua +4.8 3. Joni MÃ¤ki +19.5 4. Anssi Penzinen +21.0 5 Martin Jaks CZE +27,4 9 Lauri Lepisto + 48.0 14 Ilkka Herola + 2 '' 07

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