The first Kenyan Sprint Orienteering Championships has been relocated to an alternative competition terrain due to the political unrest in the country – but now everything is ready for the race. It is now only three days away! The Bushtrekkers-Kenya orienteering club is organizing the first Kenyan Sprint Orienteering Championships ...

The World of O Wall Calendar 2008 – “12 runners – 12 countries” – is now ready for download! Compared to the preview version from December, more than 80 new competitions are included – including all WRE competitions. Thanks a lot for everybody contributing to making World of O Calendar ...

The runner chosen for November is Anne Margrethe Hausken from Norway. Hausken was a very promising junior – but overstrained her body after her first international season in 1998 and was completely without training for two years. In 2001 she did her comeback very carefully, focusing on the short races ...

Today will be your last chance to add events to the WoO Wall Calender 2008! More than 50 events have been added the last 10 days since the preview of the WoO Wall Calender 2008 started – but there is still room for more! Especially September (only 3 events!), October, ...

The runner chosen for December is Klaus Schgaguler from Italy. Back in 2005, Schgaguler made his best international result until now with his 19th place over the middle distance at the World Orienteering Championships in Japan. After being in at least one A-final in the WOC every year since 2003 ...

The runner chosen for September is Leif Bader from Germany. Leif has improved steadily the last years – even if he had to fight with some injuries. His best WOC results until now is the 22nd place at the Long distance at the World Orienteering Champs in Kiev, Ukraine in ...

The runner chosen for October is Vyacheslav Mukhidinov from Ukraine. Vyacheslav was one of the big surprises at the World Orienteering Champs in Ukraine in 2007, with his very strong 5th spot on the though and hot Long distance race. Back on home ground 7 years later, he surprised everybody… ...

The runner chosen for April is Kiril Nikolov from Bulgaria. In Norway Kiril Nikolov is known as “The flying Bulgarian”, due to Geir Nilsen of OPN.no winning the price “The Orienteering Picture of the Year” with a picture of Kiril Nikolov entitled “The flying Bulgarian”. See Asplövets version of the ...

The runner chosen for August is Mats Haldin from Finland. Mats Haldin has been a very important man in Halden SKs Tiomila and Jukola success the last years – and will be missed when he travels over the border to Sweden and IFK Göteborg next year. Already in 2002 he ...

The runner chosen for March is Jonn Are Myhren running for The Netherlands in 2007 – and changing to Norway in 2008. – After two years in The Netherlands I change back to Norway. Why do I do it? The reason is obvious. I was offered a place in one ...