Odense, day 3: Sweden takes 2 x team gold
21 Aug 2009 at 21:04 | Published by: JJM | Views: 10410 | News search
Men and women of Sweden after the medal ceremony. (Photo by Hans Bergström 2009)
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German women’s seven straight years on the gold podium (2002–2008)
ended to a bronze position in Odense 2009, as Sweden took gold and Austria
took the silver medals. Sweden was the best team on both minigolf courses in Odense,
felt and eternite, leaving no questions about who deserves to be minigolf
world champion 2009.
Switzerland and Netherlands had realistic medal hopes before the last 2 rounds,
both of them only 14 points behind Germany. Netherlands fell from the medal battle
to 6th place in the final day, with two quite catastrophic black team rounds. Switzerland
stayed in the pace of Germans during the eternite round in the morning, but
in the final felt round Germans went their way, and left Switzerland far behind to 4th place.
WOMEN’S TEAMS, final standings:
1. 71 106 68 114 71 101 68 115 = 714 Sweden
2. 77 125 68 107 77 112 72 121 = 759 Austria
3. 76 115 69 133 70 122 76 113 = 774 Germany
4. 87 120 78 125 72 117 76 127 = 802 Switzerland
5. 78 127 83 110 86 126 87 118 = 815 Italy
6. 78 137 77 120 77 110 91 135 = 825 Netherlands
7. 87 144 88 144 76 131 82 143 = 895 Denmark
8. 104 162 95 146 106 132 96 131 = 972 Japan
Also in men’s competition Sweden was the best team on both minigolf courses, felt and eternite.
After two days Sweden looked like it was marching to a win margin around 100 points,
but Germany fought back in the final day, winning Sweden in both last rounds,
and reducing the score difference to 60 points "only". Austrians had some silver hopes before the last
day, but the excellent game of Germany in the last day simply didn't leave much chances for Austrians.
MEN’S TEAMS, final standings:
1. 191 129 184 143 181 138 199 139 = 1304 Sweden
2. 214 139 206 135 199 146 190 135 = 1364 Germany
3. 208 144 207 149 213 137 201 133 = 1392 Austria
4. 225 147 199 154 236 135 224 137 = 1457 Switzerland
5. 230 150 212 147 211 154 243 152 = 1499 Finland
6. 222 146 219 160 229 153 237 146 = 1512 Italy
7. 253 160 251 150 237 147 228 149 = 1575 Denmark
8. 245 164 241 169 242 156 243 166 = 1626 Netherlands
9. 262 169 265 174 247 179 253 174 = 1723 Slovakia
10. 283 199 286 174 289 179 313 208 = 1931 Russia
11. 401 310 436 315 379 325 405 273 = 2844 China » results of men’s team competition » results of women’s team competition » photos from the competition
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