The JWOC team have been having a patchy week up in Poland starting with a pleasing set of results in the Sprints, which saw Max Neve 29th Lachlan Dow 37th and Ian Lawford 41st in the men’s races, and Belinda Lawford the best Australian women in 46th. The Long Distance race saw a set of unremarkable but solid results with Lachlan Dow in 50th and the rest of the men’s team bunched towards the middle of the field. In a race dominated by Danish Ida Bobach and Emma Klingenberg, Belinda Lawford was unable to repeat her success of the Sprints finishing 88th behind best placed Australian Krystal Neumann in 82.
The Middle Distance qualification races provided some real frustrations, with none of the women’s team making it into the A Finals and two key members of the men’s team, Josh Blatchford and Ian Lawford, missing out on qualification by one place and sixteen seconds between them. The two qualifiers from the Australian team had better fortune in the finals, with Lachlan Dow finishing in 36th and Oscar McNulty in 58th. There were some confidence building runs in the B finals, with Belinda Lawford 3rd and Claire Butler 19th in the womens race and Oliver Poland 6th in the mens race. The competition finishes on the 8th July with the relays. Full results can be found here.
