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World Orienteering Championship 2005 Aichi Japan
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We officially correct the result of the long qualification as follows;
| Original result | Corrected result | |||||||
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| Men heat A | 28. | Kim Kyon-Seo | 3:26:52 | Kim Kyon-Seo | 3:26:52 (no placing) | |||
| Men heat B | 27. | Lee Hyun-Don | 2:45:13 | Lee Hyun-Don | 2:45:13 (no placing) | |||
| 28. | Naigang Zang | 2:51:21 | Naigang Zan | 2:51:21 (no placing) | ||||
| Men heat C | 17. | Tarvo Avaste | 1:14:42 | 17. | Ivaylo Kamenar | 1:14:52 | ||
| 18. | Ivaylo Kamena | 1:14:52 | 18. | Axel Fischer | 1:15:17 | |||
| 19. | Axel Fischer | 1:15:17 | 19. | Tarvo Avaste | 1:15:23 | |||
| Women heat A | 15. | Antoniya Grigor | 1:05:18 | 15. | Antoniya Grigor | 1:05:42 | ||
| Women heat B | 23. | Wei Dai | 2:07:53 | Wei Dai | 2:07:53 (no placing) | |||
| Women heat C | 1. | Vroni Konig Salmi | 48:23 | 1. | Vroni Konig Salmi | 48:24 | ||
| 25. | Choi Hyang-Ok | 2:10:57 | Choi Hyang-Ok | 2:10:57 (no placing) | ||||
The corrections do not affect the overall placings.
The reason for the correction.
In qualification races, we used signals from electric finish line to get finish time. We put runners' numbers in manually. Sometimes, the electric finish line outputs a wrong signal because a spectator or press passed the line etc. We checked wrong signals and manually corrected them so that the runners were assigned to the correct signals. We also split signals in small groups so that wrong signals do not affect all the data. In the group in question, there were four signals for three runners, but a mistake was made on correcting a false signal. Consequently, the wrong signals were assigned to the runners mentioned above. We have checked similar possibilities in other qualification races and found there was no such possibility. In the final, we used two timing systems and this type of mistake cannot be happen. We are very sorry about this error.