After Great Britain's success in the middle qualifiers yesterday, spirits were high heading into the finals in Susch-Lavin writes Sarah Jones. 

 

A drop in temperature overnight, helped the athletes feel just like they were back in Britain, although the snow appearing on the surrounding mountains was not something we expected to witness in July! 

 

The athletes were faced with well planned middle courses with tricky controls, meaning even the top runners couldn't be completely clean.

 

Daniel Stansfield described the area as 'a shock and completely unexpected, nothing like the model areas' which we had visited earlier in the week.

 

Megan Carter-Davies (pictured above) continued an incredible week, finishing in 4th position. She said of her run 'it was a really good and safe run' and after her injury earlier in the year, and minimal time for training and racing in forests she knew she 'had to be careful' so she 'didn't worry about the running and spiked most of the controls, which paid off'.

 

Jenny Ricketts also executed a safe run and delivered a solid 43rd position at her first JWOC.

 

Fiona Bunn planned to do the same as in the qualifier. She 'took number 1 carefully, but unfortunately 'lost concentration on the downhill section to a tricky number 2.' After her first experience in a middle final, she was disappointed but has moved on and is 'ready to smash the relay' 

 

Another impressive GB run came from Alexander Chepelin (pictured above), whose 'slow and steady' strategy gave him a clean run for 16th.

 

The relays tomorrow will be the final competition of the week and the team are buzzing, lessons learnt from the other disciplines will be taken forward into Tarasp, for what will hopefully be a successful day in the forest.

 

Today's results can be found here.

 

Photo credit and thanks to Wendy Carlyle.