Life scientists and physicists dominated DHL relay event

01/09-09 kl. 13:28 Campus
DHL 2009_Lizette Kabré_07 Photo: Lizette Kabré University of Copenhagen runners in the 2009 run

Food scientists from the Faculty of Life Sciences sprinted to University of Copenhagen fun-run glory

by Mike Young

Maybe it was something they ate.

The team from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics (Fødevareøkonomisk Institut - FOI) was the top University of Copenhagen (U of C) team, coming in seventh in the overall placings out of 3969 participating teams on Monday.

The DHL-relay is claimed to be the world’s largest fun-run with 125,000 participants over the course of five days. The U of C had 319 five-person teams taking part Monday.

The five runners from the FOI University of Copenhagen averaged an incredible sub-19 minutes for the five kilometre relay race, which is run on a jam-packed twisty course with little opportunity to pass other runners.

Physicists escaped into other dimension

While the University of Copenhagen food scientists could claim superior knowledge of sports nutrition, the physicists may be holding on to a few secrets too.

Maybe they knew how to escape into another dimension after one kilometre, teleporting themselves to a place just before the finish line.

In any case, the physicists from the Niels Bohr Institute placed second and third among the U of C rankings, just ousting a group of spritely X-ray technicians from Frederiksberg hospital.

See the top 10 U of C teams in the fact box to the right. The first number is the overall placing, the second is the team number, followed by the overall time and name of the team.

You can see the total rankings for all teams, including those who are unlucky enough not to be a part of the University of Copenhagen here.

See picture gallery on our Danish-language sister site here:
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All photos: Lizette Kabré.

miy@adm.ku.dk

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01/09-09 kl. 16:52 Anonymous:

So where to see the ranking of all teams?

03/09-09 kl. 12:49 Mike Young:

here

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Facts

Top 5 University of Copenhagen teams

Placing/time/number/team name
7 01:32:59 2112 KU - FOI 1 KU - Det Biovidenskabelige Fakultet
9 01:35:21 3904 KU/NBI The Black Saturns Niels Bohr Institutet
33 01:43:15 3891 KU/NBI Babyjoggers NBI-Nano Niels Bohr Institutet
42 01:43:57 2691 KU-Xlab Københavns Universitet
50 01:45:02 2368 KU 's Hydrogeologer KU Institut for Geografi og Geologi


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