Victory in Icebug 24!

Silva Gerber Adventure with Aaron Prince and Mattias Nyström won despite tough competition from the Czech team "Hannah" and the Russian team KAHT-Omega.

Silva Gerber Adventure
Photo: Anders Lidman. Beautiful views and weather in this years edition of Icebug 24.

Silva Gerber lead from start to finish. When the team arrived at the night camp at 05:44 they had punched all of the controls northwest of the camp and all controls surrounding North Fjällnäs. The Czech team Hannah came to the night camp 07:12 and the Russian team KAHT-Omega 07:47 but both trailing teams had taken 3 controls less, each worth one point.

Silva Gerber Adventure collected a total of 50 points in 23 h 39 min 40 sek. Hannah kept their second place to the finish with 43 points in 23:02:42 and KAHT-Omega came third, also with 43 points but with a tine of 23:55:04.

On www.icebug24.com you find more pictures and results.

Photo: Anders Lidman. Aaron and Mattias go in the lead directly from the start.
Photo: Anders Lidman. Aaron and Mattias go in the lead directly from the start.

Photo: Anders Lidman. Aaron on one of the snowfields.
Photo: Anders Lidman. Aaron on one of the snowfields.

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