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New Championships weekend with Live GPS Tracking

Get ready for a new weekend with live GPS tracking and interesting orienteering competitions. For the Finnish Champs Middle distance on Saturday September 19th, there will be live GPS tracking of the last 20 men and 20 women starting at about 14:35 finnish time. The Finnish Champs weekend continues with ...

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Maps from National Championships last weekend

Maps from the Italian, Belgian, German, Austrian, Swiss, Swedish and Norwegian Champs held this weekend are shown below – all taken from omaps.worldofo.com. From many of these competitions there are even more maps in omaps.worldofo.com than the ones listed below – for example at least 15 maps from the Swedish ...

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Maps and GPS Tracking from Norwegian Champs Middle

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Anne Margrethe Hausken and Damien Renard had spectacular mistakes running to the wrong controls – making it extra interesting for the viewers to follow the GPS tracking from todays Norwegian Champs middle distance. Both were very much in the fight for the medals when they did bit mistakes. In the ...

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Webroute + GPS-track: Norwegian Champs Long

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[Updated with GPS tracking video] There were some interesting long legs in todays Norwegian Champs Long. Draw your choice first – and take a look at what the best did at the GPS Tracking afterwards. Above you see the most problematic control for the women in todays long distance – ...

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Norwegian Champs: Live GPS Tracking from 14:30 CET

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The Norwegian Champs start with the long distance today – expect some interesting long legs in the terrain around Ålen south of Trondheim. If you’ve got some time around 14:30 CET it will probably be interesting to watch the last part of the womens race – and the last part ...

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GPS Watches: Sweden now explicitly allows them

In Sweden you may now use your GPS watch actively in order to get faster and more securely from point A to B. Good news from the Swedish Orienteering Federation (SOFT) regarding the use of GPS watches in orienteering competitions for those who have invested in a GPS watch – ...

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WOC 2010 Preparations: Maps from Trainingcamps

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[Updated with Relay] The World Orienteering Elite have now turned their focus to Trondheim and WOC 2010. Several Teams have been in Trondheim the past week – and on last Friday the official Training camp started. Below you can take a look at the maps the World Orienteering Elite are ...

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Wrap-up: WOC 2009 Relay

Women Relay WOC 2009: 5th control

Thierry Gueorgiou, Martin Johansson, the Secretary General of WOC 2009, Matthias Merz, Simone Niggli and hundreds of orienteers have written their opinion about the WOC 2009 relay. The orienteering community also got the possibility to give their opinion through a poll. Now it is time to wrap it all up ...

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Fantasy World Cup: Scary securing the lead ahead of finals

The Scary Team with manager Anders Skarholt secured its lead ahead of the final two World Cup races at the World Cup Final in Switzerland in the end of September. The Bushmen Team is still in second spot – now 29 points behind the Scary Team. However, everything is open ...

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