14 Prizes for Lucky Voters: Check if you won!

From the nearly 3000 votes given, great prizes from our sponsors Trimtex, OOCup,  Kopaonik Open, Portugal O-meeting and Fjord-o Arctic Midnattsolgaloppen have been drawn. In addition 5 websites who helped spread the news about the poll have been awarded with free ads. Check below if you took home one of the prizes!

At first we would like to thank Trimtex, OOCup, Portugal O-meeting, Kopaonik Open and Fjord-o Arctic Midnattsolgaloppen for sponsoring “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″. Thanks to them World of O and Ultimate Orienteering were able to draw lucky prize winners among those who nominated and voted in this years election.

In total nearly 3000 votes have been given in “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″. Among all people voting, 1 Trimtex Speed o-shirt, 3 Trimtex necks (buff), 3 Trimtex Vison LZR headbands, 2 transferable starts for the complete Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen 2011, 2 transferable packets for the complete Kopaonik Open 2011, 2 transferable starts for the complete OOCup 2011 and 1 free transferable start for the Portugal “O” Meeting 2011 have been drawn.

Thursday the unveiling of the winners of “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″ will take place. Stay tuned!

Lucky voters

The prize winners are:

• Trimtex (see more information)
  • Maxime GAUDUIN – Trimtex Speed o-shirt
  • Tapani Partanen – Trimtex neck (buff)
  • Alain Denzler – Trimtex neck (buff)
  • Jeggi – Trimtex neck (buff)
  • Wolfgang Pötsch – Trimtex Vison LZR headband
  • Kenneth Skaug – Trimtex Vison LZR headband
  • Allemann Jonas- Trimtex Vison LZR headband
• Fjord-o Arctic Midnattsolgaloppen 2011 (see more information)
  • John Olav Alvsvåg- a transferable start for the complete Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen 2011
  • Moritz Brettschneide – a transferable start for the complete Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen 2011
• Kopaonik Open 2011 (see more information)
  • Stefanini – a transferable packet for the complete Kopaonik Open 2011 will be drawn. The packet contains “Training, model event and 6 events Kopaonik Open, accommondation in apartments in Hotels in Turistic Center (from Monday 11.07 to Monday 18.07), provided guides for excursions and hiking tours, T-Shirt of competition”.
  • Håvard Irgens – a transferable packet for the complete Kopaonik Open 2011. The packet contains “Training, model event and 6 events Kopaonik Open, accommondation in apartments in Hotels in Turistic Center (from Monday 11.07 to Monday 18.07), provided guides for excursions and hiking tours, T-Shirt of competition”.
• OOCup 2011 (see more information)
  • Rene Post – a transferable start for the complete OOCup 2011
  • Geir Nilsen – a transferable start for the complete OOCup 2011
• Portugal O-meeting 2011 (see more information)
  • Tom Ryan- a free transferable start for the Portugal “O” Meeting 2011

Congratulations to all prize winners! The prize winners will be contacted by e-mail later today.

Websites linking to “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010


Thanks to all websites that linked to “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″ organized by World of O and Ultimate Orienteering, we were able to make the election results as representative for the orienteering community as possible.

As earlier announced, 5 free “Sponsored links” were announced to be drawn among the websites linking to “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″. The websites are:

• IC Croce Orienteering at Ultimate Orienteering
• OL-sport.at at WorldofO.com
• Er-team.blogspot.com at Ultimate Orienteering
• Damien Renard at WorldofO.com
• Danish orienteering Federation at Ultimate Orienteering

The winners of sponsored links are asked to send an email to niels-peter [at] ultimate-orienteering.com to ask for further details. Note that the sponsored ads must be for orienteering related content!

Main Sponsor: Trimtex

Trimtex Sport, based in Norway, is one of the main producers of orienteering sportswear. Since its foundation in 1976 with base in the orienteering market, Trimtex Sport has been producing sportswear with focus on unique colours and designs, for clubs and corporations. Today, Trimtex Sport is the proud maker of outstanding sportswear, which is carefully designed from top to bottom to fit the customer’s needs and specifications.

Trimtex Sport is, like last year, the main sponsor or The Orienteering Achievement 2010 election and they are generous to give the following prizes:

• Each of the two athletes winning “The Orienteering Achievement of the year” receive a Trimtex Speed o-shirt
• Among the Lucky voters, 1 Speed o-shirt, 3 Trimtex necks (buff) and 3 Vison LZR headbands will be drawn
• See the Trimtex webpage for more information about Trimtex

Event sponsor: Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen 2011

Fjord-o Arctic Midnattsolgaloppen is the biggest and most popular event which is regularly organized north of the polar circle. Fjord-o is known for its mix of interesting orienteering with wonderful nature between fjords and mountains. Fjord-o 2011 is organized from June 28th until July 1st 2011.

• Among the Lucky voters, 2 transferable starts for the complete Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen 2011 will be drawn.
• See Fjord-o Arctic – Midnattsolgaloppen webpage for more information about the event

Event sponsor: Kopaonik Open 2011

Kopaonik Open is held since 2001 on beautiful terrains in the national and tourist centre Kopaonik in Serbia. Kopaonik is the biggest mountain of central Serbia, spreading its wide mountain-ridge 83km long. Kopaonik is also called “Mountain of the Sun” – with almost 200 sunny days annually. Kopaonik Open 2011 is organized in Kopaonik from July 12th until July 17th 2011.

• Among the Lucky voters, 2 transferable packets for the complete Kopaonik Open 2011 will be drawn. The packet contains “Training, model event and 6 events Kopaonik Open, accommondation in apartments in Hotels in Turistic Center (from Monday 11.07 to Manday 18.07), provided guides for excursions and hiking tours, T-Shirt of competition”.
• See Kopaonik Open webpage for more information about the event

Event sponsor: OOcup

OOCup is a popular Slovenian event which is famous for its interesting karst orienteering and great nature. OOCup 2011 is organized from July 22th until July 26th.

• Among the Lucky voters, 2 transferable starts for the complete OOCup 2011 will be drawn.
• See OOCup webpage for more information about the event

Event sponsor: Portugal O-meeting 2011

For the second time in its history, Grupo Desportivo dos Quatro Caminhos organizes Portugal “O” Meeting. The Portugal “O” Meeting is a foot orienteering event, counting for IOF’s World Ranking (IOF WRE) and for the Portuguese Orienteering Federation’s Cup, open to people of any age, that may participate in the competition or open classes, individually, or in a group.

Portugal “O” Meeting 2011 is organized in the surroundings of Portalegre from March 5th until March 8th 2011.

• Among the Lucky voters, one free transferable start for the Portugal “O” Meeting will be drawn.
• See the Portugal “O” Meeting webpage for more information about the event