World of O News
Voting for the “The Orienteering Achievement of 2008″ has now opened – and will be open from November 28th until December 9th. The past week all nominated runners have been presented at World of O and Ultimate Orienteering – and now everything is ready to name the Orienteering Achievement of 2008. Now it is up to you! Please help spreading the news – and give all these great achievements by the worlds finest orienteers their deserved honor!
- Follow this link to go to the voting page
- 10 prizes from Trimtex will be drawn among all voting
Nominees “The Orienteering Achievement of 2008″
| Men | Women |
Tero Förh, Finland Francois Gonon, France Thierry Gueorgiou, France Daniel Hubmann, Switzerland Andrey Khramov, Russia Anders Nordberg, Norway Michal Smola, Czech Republic Jamie Stevenson, Great Britain Dimitry Tsvektov, Russia Emil Wingsted, Sweden |
Marianne Andersen, Norway Annika Billstam, Sweden Dana Brožková, Czech Republic Radka Brožková, Czech Republic Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norway Minna Kauppi, Finland Helena Jansson, Sweden Vroni König-Salmi, Switzerland Merja Rantanen, Finland Signe Søes, Denmark |
The Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008: Runesson and Falk
Johan Runesson and Beata Falk – both from Sweden – were named “The Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008″ in the mens and womens class, respectively! Runesson took 40% of the votes – nearly twice as many as Timo Sild in second spot. In the womens class it was a lot tighter, Falk taking 33% of the votes compared to 26.7% for Emma Klingenberg in second spot.
The vote was decided by the big international readership of World of O and Ultimate Orienteering – nearly 2000 unique votes from 40 different countries have been delivered, making these results very representative for the worldwide orienteering community. The Swedish Juniors dominated the Junior World Orienteering Champs on home ground in Gothenburg this year – and the dominance was now continued in the “Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008″ poll.
Read more in the Press Release about the Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008 winners.
Rules and prizes for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2008″
The winner in each category is decided in a vote amongst all the readers of World of O and Ultimate Orienteering. Prizes will be drawn among the voters:
- A person can only vote once in each of the categories (if several people share one internet connection, only one can vote, as the IP address is used to identify the voter along with the email-address of the voter).
- Among all people voting, 10 prizes (Trimtex Extreme shirts and Trimtex Extreme pants) will be drawn. We would like to thank Trimtex for making available the prizes.
- The winners will be made public after the poll closes at World of O and Ultimate Orienteering.
Spread the news
Help making the poll as representative for the international orienteering community as possible! Spread the news about the poll, by publishing an article about the election on your website, and encourage people participating. Please use this link:
- http://poll.worldofo.com/poll2008.html (voting will be opened from here)
Of all websites with on average more than 50 visitors/day who link to the poll after it has been opened for voting, five websites will be drawn who will get a free “Sponsored Link” at either World of O or Ultimate Orienteering. Websites with on average more than 200 visitors/day will count triple when linking to the poll. Send an email to Jan@Kocbach.net with the sites address if you want to be part of this draw for free sponsored links. Sponsored links may be to any orienteering related page or product – must necessarily by the website drawn. Please use one of the following images when linking to the poll:
