WC at Hovden from 18:00 – live results

Fabien Pasquasy and Becky Carlyle are the first man and woman to head into the forest at this second World Cup race of the year here in the beautiful Norwegian mountains at Bykle/Hovden. Everything is set for a very interesting middle distance race, with most of the absolute world elite present.

The Norwegian runners have an advantage in this terrain, and hope to repair the not-so-good results from this years NOC and the first WC round in Finland. Will Thierry Gueorgiou be able to take the Norwegians Holger Hott (who just let go of the Johansen name) and Anders Nordberg on homeground? Will Marianne Andersen show Simone Niggli-Luder the way in Norwegian terrain? Follow the live results from 18:00 (see link below) to get the answers in an interesting middle distance World Cup race here at Bykle by Hovden.

Just now, the last of the 2400 “normal” orienteers – participating at the Norwegian O-festival – are getting out of the very same forests as the world elite will head into now from 18:00 – and as one of these 2400, I can tell you that the World Elite will meet very interesting mountain terrain – with many open marshes and partly stony ground. The orienteering can for a large part be categorized as quite easy, but if you loose control – the errors may become large. Also, there are some tricky green areas where you have to know which side of the tree and stone you are heading to not loose time.

Maps with courses will be available here after the event.

• Start list Results (will be updated during the race)