The Draw
Date: 2003-10-22
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The draw for Gothenburg Racketlon World Open 2003 has now been finalized:
National Team Event (upper half,
lower half)
Men Elite
Ladies Elite
Men Veterans
The Timeplan
Please note the registration deadline for the plate tournaments: Saturday,
12:00
Non-Swedish participants are guaranteed a minimum of 3 matches.
If knocked out after two matches they can sign up for their
guaranteed third match at the tournament desk. Space has been
allocated for these matches on Saturday night 19:00-20:00.
A few notes:
- The pages are readable with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 6. We cannot guarantee that other browsers will work. We know for a fact that it will not work at all in Netscape 4! (The blunt advice to you who only get a text list of names instead of a standard graphically laid out match schedule when you click the links above is simply: Download a modern browser!)
- All draws are designed to fit into one A4 page. But you may need to adjust your print margins (File->Page Setup in Microsoft Internet Explorer)
- We are using a classic Peter Landberg setup as used in the Swedish national championships. The matches outlined on the pages above have been numbered and in order to find out when a certain match is going to be played you need to consult the Timeplan.
- No indication of nationality implies that the player is Swedish
- Bold format indicates that a player has been seeded. In general, the following principles have been applied:
Seed #1 has been placed on top of the draw. Seed #2 at the
bottom.
The mutual postions of seed #3 and #4 have been decided through
the drawing of lots.
Other players have been positioned through the drawing of lots.
- In the Men's Elite Class a few extra conditions apply:
In accordance with an IRF requirement 8 players were seeded in accordance with the latest IRF Racketlon Racketlon Ranking:
1 Magnus "Lia" Eliasson
Sweden 4509,66
2 Mikko Kärkkäinen Finland 2506,42
3 Mats Källberg Sweden 1915,42
4 Rickard Persson Sweden 1857,99
5 John O'Donnell England 1521,11
6 Roland Helle Sweden 1485,07
7 Stefan Adamsson Sweden 1477,77
8 Toni Kemppinen Finland 1142,41
9 Nicolas Sene France 1007,68
10 Staffan Ericsson Sweden 949,24
11 Ari-Matti Koskinen Finland 942,88
12 Stefan Larsson Sweden 938,71
In accordance with a second IRF requirement the following
procedures were followed:
The mutual postions of seed #3 and #4 was decided through the
drawing of lots. As were the mutual positions of #5/ #6 as well
as #7/#8.
In addition, 4 challengers were identified. These are:
David Lazarus (Britain's #1
last year)
Holger Stamm (Germany's #1)
Peter Duyck (Belgium's #1? - although untested
in Racketlon)
Steve Thomsson (Rapidly improving Scottish #1)
These challengers were placed so that they have a chance to
challenge seeds #5-8 about a place in the quarter final. Their
mutual postions were decided through the drawing of lots.
- All draws were performed under the supervision of the President of the International Racketlon Federation.
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