What a thriller finish! Domnarvets GoIF’s Lena Eliasson took the victory ahead of Tampereen Pyrintö’s Anni-Maija Fincke after being behind for 15 of 17 controls. Everybody had prepared for a Finnish victory when Fincke missed the tricky 16th control and Eliasson could slip by to take the victory.

This was a special experience for Eliasson after loosing more than 20 minutes on the last leg for Domnarvets GoIF’s on last years edition of the Venla relay. Read on for the decisive moments in the relay explained based on the GPS tracking.

Note! This report is written only based on the TV broadcast, not based on the full GPS-tracking. The full GPS-tracking will be online Sunday.

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Leg 1

The first leg is not were you win the relay, but rather were you loose the relay. Of the top teams, Ulricehamn was the looser on the first leg this year – doing some big mistakes early in the leg. Domnarvets GoIF run very well – taking the lead in the forest ahead of Halden and OK Tyr.

Towards the finish, OK Tyr was strongest in the run-on, and OK Tyr took the first leg with Linnea Martinsson. – I did some mistakes in the start, but am very happy with the race after that. It was a lot of fun running in this terrain.

1	66	OK Tyr	SWE	43:57	Linnea Martinsson	43:57
2	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+4	Emma Johansson	44:01
3	3	Halden SK	NOR	+7	Galina Vinogradova	44:04
4	28	Hiisirasti	FIN	+36	Anastasia Tikhonova	44:33
5	50	OK Kolmården	SWE	+37	Malin Leijon-Lind	44:34
6	17	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+39	Mari Väänänen	44:36
7	10	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+1:34	Kine Gulliksen	45:31
8	143	IK Hakarpspojkarna	SWE	+1:34	Grete Gutmann	45:31
9	27	IGTISA	LTU	+1:36	Kristina Rybakovaite	45:33
10	430	Lillehammer	NOR	+1:39	Audhild Bakken Rognstad	45:36

Leg 2

Out on the second leg Domnarvet takes the lead ahead of Halden.

Domnarvet GoIF’s Karolina Höjsgaard runs very well in this first part of the leg, increasing the lead steadily to the other runners.

Kalevan Rasti makes a mistake to the second control, and looses further time to the lead (after being 37th and the changeover). The same also with Koovee. Halden SK (Ingunn Fristad) does a mistake between number 3 and 4 – looses maybe 20-30 seconds there.

Then Halden’s Ingunn Fristad makes a gigantic mistake – loosing 7 minutes to Domnarvets GoIF.

Karolina Höjsgaard continues well in the remainder of the leg, giving Domnarvets GoIF a big lead of nearly a minute at the changeover.

- I run alone all the way from the 3rd control. It is a very good feeling. I run well in the start, but did a quite big mistake in the end. Then I run to the wrong last control, but did not loose a lot on time on that.

1	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	1:24:07	Karolina Höjsgaard	40:05
2	10	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+58	Tone Wigemyr	39:33
3	25	Paimion Rasti	FIN	+59	Katri Lindeqvist	37:34
4	1	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	+1:00	Saila Kinni	38:52
5	292	OK Kolmården 2	SWE	+1:01	Linn Bränneby	39:22
6	4	NTNUI	NOR	+1:03	Bodil Holmström	39:30
7	30	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter	SWE	+1:09	Frida Hellstadius	39:23
8	7	OK Linne	SWE	+1:10	Inga Kazlauskaite	39:38
9	6	Sävedalens AIK	SWE	+1:19	Jahren Silje Ekroll	39:33
10	17	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+1:20	Marika Mikkola	40:51

Leg 3

On the third leg, Eva Jurenikova looses some time early on the leg. Tampereen Pyrintö’s Riina Kuuselo takes a left route choice on the long leg early in the leg, and earns some time, being only 26 seconds behind on the first intermediate control.

Tampereen Pyrintö’s Riina Kuuselo continues to run well, and catches up with Jurenikova by 2.9 km. Meanwhile Store Tuna’s Tove Alexandersson is running very well. After being 3:15 behind at the changeover, she takes that down to 1:48 at 2.9 km. Halden’s Celine Dodin does also a good run for Halden, taking Halden up towards Top 20 again.

TP and Domnarvet have different forking, but still keep approximately the same speed and avoid mistakes. A the 9th control (4.2 km) Tampereen Pyrintö’s Riina Kuuselo takes the lead one second ahead of Domnarvets Jurenikova.

To the changeover, Tampereen Pyrintö’s Riina Kuuselo is strongest – but Jurenikova hands the map over to Lena Eliasson on the last leg first. Kuuselo was very happy with her race.

- I have mostly rested for two weeks. I did a very good race and did my own route choices.

Everything ready for a tough fight on the last leg then.

1	1	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	1:55:09	Riina Kuuselo	30:01
2	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+0	Eva Jurenikova	31:03
3	40	Stora Tuna OK	SWE	+1:49	Tove Alexandersson	29:35
4	5	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+1:53	Signe Söes	29:44
5	50	OK Kolmården	SWE	+2:08	Anna Forsberg	31:37
6	4	NTNUI	NOR	+2:11	Line Hagman	32:11
7	8	SK Pohjantähti	FIN	+3:07	Marttiina Joensuu	31:49
8	17	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+3:19	Aija Skrastina	33:01
9	30	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter	SWE	+3:20	Katarina Borg	33:12
10	10	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+3:27	Marit Kahrs	33:31

Leg 4

Out on the last leg Tampereen Pyrintö’s Anni-Maija Fincke gets a very good start, steadily increasing the lead to the others. Domnarvets GoIF’s Lena Eliasson looses time around the second control – and then also more on the long leg to the third leg. Eliasson lost a lot of time at the last leg of Jukola 2010 – and although her start in 2011 is better, this does not look good enough for victory.

Then towards the 6th control – described as the most tricky control in the course by the course setter – Anni-Maija Fincke also has to do some searching. For a small moment it seems like Domnarvet might get contact again.

But then Domnarvet does an even bigger mistake.

Anni-Maija Fincke continues to build out her lead, increasing it to nearly than 2 minutes.

At 4.8 km (8th control) we have the following Top 5 list:

1	1	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	2:25:46	Anni-Maija Fincke	30:37
2	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+1:40	Lena Eliasson	32:17
3	40	Stora Tuna OK	SWE	+1:57	Emma Claesson	30:45
4	5	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+2:01	Annika Billstam	30:45
5	10	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+4:18	Heidi Östlid Bagstevold	31:28

Then Lidingö runs to the wrong forking, and looses out in the fight for the victory. So does Stora Tuna, so the fight now is between only TP and Domnarvet – although the lead of Domnarvet is 1:30 at the radio at 5.7 km and the victory seems clear.

Domnarvet has slightly higher speed than TP though, and just as it looks like it might get exciting again and TP looses some time to control 14, it is clear that Eliasson has been running with too high risk – making another quite large mistake.

Still, Eliasson actually catches some seconds on Fincke and Domnarvet is 1:23 behind at control number 15. At control 15 we then have the following standing:

1	1	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	2:41:08	Anni-Maija Fincke	45:59
2	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+1:23	Lena Eliasson	47:22
3	5	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+2:46	Annika Billstam	46:52
4	40	Stora Tuna OK	SWE	+4:20	Emma Claesson	48:30
5	4	NTNUI	NOR	+4:23	Mari Fasting	48:11

Just as it looked like TP had a clear victory, the “impossible” happened at the 16th control – a control which looked very tricky on the map – and was so in reality as well. A really big mistake for Anni-Majia Fincke, giving the victory in the hands of Lena Eliasson and Domnarvets GoIF.

Lena Eliasson did nearly not believe what she was seeing when she saw Anni-Maija Fincke at the second last control.

- It feels very good. It was a bit too exciting, because I made a mistake in the start. I did not see Anni-Maija before I surprisingly saw her at the second last control, and then I run all I could to the finish. It feels extremely good. The team is great. We even had Dana Brozkova exchanged with Emma just recently, but still managed to win.

Fincke was of course very disappointed with her big mistake in the end.

- I knew 100 meter before the control exactly where I was. I did not know were the others were, and therefore run too fast and went just close by the control.

Lidingö’s Annika Billstam runs a good last part, and takes the third spot.

1	15	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	2:48:54	Lena Eliasson	53:44
2	1	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	+35	Anni-Maija Fincke	54:20
3	5	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+3:07	Annika Billstam	54:58
4	4	NTNUI	NOR	+3:10	Mari Fasting	54:44
5	17	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+3:11	Amlie Chataing	53:37
6	10	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+3:14	Heidi Östlid Bagstevold	53:32
7	40	Stora Tuna OK	SWE	+3:23	Emma Claesson	55:18
8	13	Angelniemen Ankkuri	FIN	+3:32	Natalia Vinogradova	50:55
9	37	Delta	FIN	+4:29	Julia Novikova	51:46
10	50	OK Kolmården	SWE	+5:03	Anna Segersson	56:39
11	6	Sävedalens AIK	SWE	+5:06	Emma Andersson	52:38
12	3	Halden SK	NOR	+5:23	Ida Marie Näss Björgul	52:53
13	49	OK Tisaren	SWE	+5:34	Lilian Forsgren	52:48
14	27	IGTISA	LTU	+6:53	Sandra Pauzaite	54:19
15	44	Göteborg Majorna OK	SWE	+8:04	Lina Strand	55:46
16	8	SK Pohjantähti	FIN	+8:07	Sofia Haajanen	58:44
17	30	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter	SWE	+8:10	Ausrine Kutkaite	58:35
18	25	Paimion Rasti	FIN	+8:12	Inga Dambe	52:11
19	34	Wing OK	NOR	+10:09	Sara Luscher	53:18
20	33	Kangasala SK	FIN	+10:22	Outi Ojanen	56:11

Here are some interactive illustrations to see the race development in the Jukola and Venla relays the last years.

Taking a look at the Jukola statistics for Kalevan Rasti, we see that even if KR got second last year, it is their largest gap to the winner since 1998. The big time loss for KR last year came at the 4th leg were Martooma lost more than 6 minutes.

Since 2000, KR has never been in the lead until after the  5th leg (except for Romppanen taking the first leg in 2005). That is a very different development from Halden who often have been in the lead already from the second leg.

With Gueorgiou on the third leg, KR is now trying a different tactics obviously. They want to be in the lead already in the night legs, to be sure that nothing like last year will happen. Interesting tactics – it will be interesting too see how it works out.

• Jukola statistics for Halden, Kalevan Rasti, Kristiansand
• Jukola relay – winners the last 10 years and Jukola relay – top 10 2010
• Venla relay – winners the last 10 years and Venla relay – top 10 2010

The illustrations are interactive, i.e. you can swipe the mouse over any team/leg, and get information about who run the leg and the time loss for the leg.

- Looking forward to my battle with the night legend, are the words of the King of Middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – before the battle against Anders Nordberg at tonights long night leg of Jukola – the third leg.

The 3rd leg is set to start at 00:11 CET with finish time 01:30 CET – thus there is now one extra reason to stay up late. Gueorgiou himself is delighted to run the long night leg after running the last leg every year since 2003.

- Last time I wasn’t running the last leg for KR was 2002! But got this year a leg I have always wanted to run, going to be fun!

Indeed it is going to be fun – and not only for Gueorgiou.

All you need to know

All you need to know about Jukola – including live TV, live results, LiveBlog etc. here:

• All you need to know about Jukola and Venla 2011

Jukola relay

Start: 21:55 CET (22:55 local time)

Leg	Length (km)	Light	Estimated time (min)	Changeover time	Climb (m)
1	11,4 – 11,5	light/dusk	68	23.03	290
2	11,3 – 11,4	dark	68	00.11	275
3	13,5 – 13,6	dark	79	01.30	350
4	8,2 – 8,4	dusk/light	48	02.18	180
5	8,4 – 8,6	light	47	03.05	190
6	10,4 – 10,6	light	58	04.03	260
7	15,5 – 15,7	light	85	05.28	370
Total	79,4		7 h 33 min			1915

• There is forking on all legs

21:55 CET on Saturday more than 1500 men head into the forest – nearly 9 hours earlier at 14:10 CET nearly 1100 women start their relay. The Jukola relay is the highlight of the season for many runners – here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays.

Live TV/results/tracking/startlists

• Live TV feed:  Finnish language – Swedish language (via YLE, from 12:55 CET – 18:00 CET and from 21:45 CET – 09:00 CET)
• Live results Venla: server 1, server 2, server 3, server 4,
• Live results Jukola: server 1, server 2, server 3, server 4
• Live audio (speaker sound)
• There is GPS Tracking (for 20 teams) on all legs. However, live GPS Tracking will only be shown on the TV feed – there is no separate tracking offered. On some legs there will be little tracking shown so that later runners will not see the forking etc.
• Startlists: Jukola – Venla
• Jukola webpage and competition information
• LiveBlog (via WorldofO.com – see bottom of this page or direct link in separate window here)
• Mobile version of the WorldofO.com LiveBlog
• Twitter hash tag for Jukola relay: #jukola (directly included in LiveBlog)

Map and terrain

The competition terrain consists of several wide hills (from 30 to 40 meters). Most of the terrain has a lot of small details, and in some parts there are young pine forests with limited visibility. Fields, forest roads and paths offer different route choices. Above the map from Jukola 1992 is shown. This map overlaps most of the Jukola 2011 embargoed area, except for some areas to the south.

The 1992 Jukola map with course can be  found from omaps.worldofo.com:

• Old map 1, old map 2
• Browse all old Jukola maps in omaps.worldofo.com
• Use of 3DRerun for pre-race analysis for Jukola 2011 (via o-training.net)
• HeadCam video from neighbour map – learn what the forest looks like (via o-training.net)
• See also article about forking in Jukola relays (via o-training.net)

Jukola 2011 is organized close to Hamina, not far from the Russian border. Below you see the embargoed area for Jukola 2011.

Jukola video

Take a look at this Jukola 2010 compilation video to get you in the Jukola mood:

Venla relay

Start: 13:10 CET (14:10 local time)

Leg	Length (km)	Estimated time (min)	Changeover time	Climb (m)
1	6,8 – 6,9	46	13:56	140
2	6,1 – 6,2	42	14:38	120
3	5,1 – 5,2	33	14:11	125
4	8,4 – 8,5	56	16:07	180
Total	26,7	2 h 57 min		565

• There is forking on all legs

Selected teams who have submitted their running order (may still be changed – will be updated here by Saturday 12:00 CET):

2 Ulricehamns OK 1  

1	Anna Nilsson Simkovics
2	Ida Bobach
3	Helena Lidhage
4	Maja Alm

4 NTNUI 1  

1	Hanne Növik
2	Bodil Holmström
3	Line Hagman
4	Mari Fasting

5 IFK Lidingö SOK 1  

1	Ines Brodmann
2	Annica Gustafsson
3	Signe Söes
4	Annika Billstam

Top Teams last year:

1	3	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	3:07:12	Anni-Maija Fincke	59:32
2	1	Ulricehamns OK	SWE	+4:46	Simone Niggli	1:01:49
3	4	Halden SK	NOR	+7:39	Anne Margrethe Hausken	59:14
4	21	NTNUI	NOR	+8:00	Mari Fasting	1:06:04
5	7	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+8:26	Annika Billstam	1:04:36
6	8	Sävedalens AIK	SWE	+10:29	Emma Andersson	1:04:46
7	5	OK Linne	SWE	+13:18	Inga Kazlauskaite	1:08:38
8	17	SK Pohjantähti	FIN	+13:29	Heini Wennman	1:07:37
9	20	Konnerud IL	NOR	+14:24	Marianne Andersen	59:36
10	15	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+14:44	Heidi Östlid Bagstevold	1:03:32
11	6	Turun Suunnistajat	FIN	+17:41	Vroni König-Salmi	1:09:16
12	23	Lynx	FIN	+17:48	Karoliina Sundberg	1:04:18
13	14	Angelniemen Ankkuri	FIN	+19:33	Maria Rantala	1:03:26
14	36	Tampereen Pyrintö 2	FIN	+20:16	Heidi Haapasalo	1:05:14
15	9	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+20:24	Lena Eliasson	1:20:55
16	148	Rastikarhut	FIN	+20:54	Elli Haapamäki	1:09:58
17	25	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+21:42	Aija Skrastina	1:08:09
18	13	Tullinge SK	SWE	+21:48	Jenny Lönnkvist	1:09:06
19	49	IFK Moras OK	SWE	+22:37	Eva Svensson	1:09:51
20	22	Koovee	FIN	+22:48	Merja Rantanen	1:00:51

Jukola relay

Start: 21:55 CET (22:55 local time)

Leg	Length (km)	Light	Estimated time (min)	Changeover time	Climb (m)
1	11,4 – 11,5	light/dusk	68	23.03	290
2	11,3 – 11,4	dark	68	00.11	275
3	13,5 – 13,6	dark	79	01.30	350
4	8,2 – 8,4	dusk/light	48	02.18	180
5	8,4 – 8,6	light	47	03.05	190
6	10,4 – 10,6	light	58	04.03	260
7	15,5 – 15,7	light	85	05.28	370
Total	79,4		7 h 33 min			1915

• There is forking on all legs
• 21.42 CET Sunset
• 02.39 CET Sunrise

Selected teams who have submitted their running order (may still be changed, will be updated here by Saturday 12:00 CET):

14

Kristiansand OK 1

1. Christian Bøen
2. Mats Dahlén
3. Isak Bergman
4. Jostein Andersen
5. Martin Hubmann
6. Baptiste Rollier
7. Daniel Hubmann

6 IL Tyrving 1  

1	Martin Ivarsson
2	Jostein Nörbech
3	Björn Ekeberg
4	Anders A Tiltnes
5	Jim Öystein Nybråten
6	Torbjörn Sagberg
7	Audun H Weltzien

9 OK Linne 1  

1	Josef Nordlund
2	Jan Troeng
3	Mats Troeng
4	Rassmus Andersson
5	Oskar Sjöberg
6	Tomas Stenström
7	Mattias Millinger

Top teams last year:

1	3	Halden SK	NOR	8:32:41	Olav Lundanes	1:38:44
2	2	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+7:07	Thierry Gueorgiou	1:32:17
3	11	Vaajakosken Terä	FIN	+17:42	Jani Lakanen	1:40:08
4	25	Lynx	FIN	+22:57	Roman Ryapolov	1:45:55
5	67	Paimion Rasti	FIN	+24:13	Kim Fagerudd	1:37:25
6	16	IL Tyrving	NOR	+24:37	Audun Weltzien	1:37:12
7	5	Vehkalahden Veikot	FIN	+25:48	Tero Föhr	1:42:39
8	7	Delta	FIN	+26:29	Valentin Novikov	1:34:17
9	13	OK Linne	SWE	+26:38	Henrik Löfås	1:41:35
10	17	Angelniemen Ankkuri	FIN	+26:42	Aleksei Bortnik	1:43:03
11	28	Tampereen Pyrintö	FIN	+27:38	Jarkko Huovila	1:40:40
12	23	Halden SK 2	NOR	+27:44	Jon Pedersen	1:43:29
13	29	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+33:36	Carl Waaler Kaas	1:34:53
14	46	Kristiansand OK 2	NOR	+34:28	Jon Duncan	1:40:12
15	15	Turun Metsänkävijät	FIN	+34:39	Scott Fraser	1:38:02
16	6	Malungs OK Skogsmårdarna	SWE	+34:50	William Lind	1:36:09
17	35	Hiisirasti	FIN	+36:56	Sergei Detkov	1:41:32
18	4	IFK Göteborg	SWE	+39:40	Francois Gonon	1:46:26
19	32	Göteborg Majorna OK	SWE	+48:20	Andreas J Johansson	1:48:10
20	18	IFK Lidingö SOK	SWE	+52:42	Fredrik Johansson	1:50:49

LiveBlog

World of O will again follow the Jukola and Venla relays with the popular Live Blog – and give you all the action and analysis as it happens. Join in on the fun – and contribute with your comments. I need some extra moderators/admins to get through all of the night – please send me an email at jan@kocbach.net if you have the opportunity to help out! I can assure you that you’ll have more fun than watching alone.

[Updated with Final results and maps] Swiss domination among the men – Swedish among the women. Five Swiss men in the top of NORT Stage 1 – with young Matthias Kyburz on the top! Three Swedish women on top – Linnea Gustafsson taking the victory.

In the mens class,  Merz took second behind Kyburz with Hertner third, Müller fourth and Daniel Hubmann 5th (Photo above: From Daniel Hubmann @ Twitter). Best non-Swiss runner was William Lind in 6th spot. Olav Lundanes who won the qualification lost nearly a minute on a long route choice leg, and thus lost the possibility to fight for a place on the podium.

In the womens class, Linnea Gustaffson took a popular victory ahead of team mates Lena Eliasson and Annika Billstam. Eliasson was heading towards a clear victory when she did a mistake at the 13th control. The Swedish women did not perform very well in the qualification in the forest, but with Top 3 in the final they showed that their are on top in city sprints.

See the bottom of the article for maps, results and interesting GPS-analysis for the qualification – a lot of interesting orienteering there.

Overall NORT Results after Stage 1

The overall NORT result is found by subtracting the bonus seconds earned in the final (up to 120 bonus seconds for victory) from the race time in the qualification. Thus Lundanes is still in second spot overall even if he lost a lot of time in the final of stage 1. Matthias Merz is in the overall lead in the Nordic Orienteering Tour in the mens class – 21 seconds ahead of Olav Lundanes with Pasi Ikonen in third.

In the womens class Anni-Maija Fincke kept her overall lead from the qualification, even if she finished only 9th in the final. With Rantanen in second spot it is double Finland among the women overall – with Bagstevold and Wigemyr (both Norway) in third and fourth. Annika Billstam is the best Swede in 5th spot.

Men

Name	Time Qualification	Bonus Time	Total time Stage 1	Difference
Matthias Merz	31:33	1:30	30:03
Olav Lundanes	30:35	0:11	30:24	0:21
Pasi Ikonen	30:59	0:09	30:50	0:47
Daniel Hubmann	31:51	0:55	30:56	0:53
Matthias Kyburz	32:58	2:00	30:58	0:55
Matthias Müller	31:59	1:00	30:59	0:56
Fabian Hertner	32:23	1:10	31:13	1:10
Tero Föhr	32:12	0:07	32:05	2:02
Carl Waaler Kaas	32:28	0:12	32:16	2:13

Women

	Name	Time Qualification	Bonus Time	Total time Stage 1	Difference
1	Anni-Maija Fincke	32:53	0:36	32:17
2	Merja Rantanen	33:20	0:38	32:42	00:25
3	Heidi Bagstevold	33:17	0:11	33:06	00:49
4	Tone Wigemyr	33:27	0:12	33:15	00:58
5	Annika Billstam	34:28	1:10	33:18	01:01
6	Mari Fasting	33:43	0:09	33:34	01:17
7	Maja Alm	34:22	0:34	33:48	01:31
8	Tove Alexandersson	34:40	0:50	33:50	01:33
9	Julia Novikova	34:44	0:18	34:26	02:09
10	Rahel Friederich	35:24	0:55	34:29	02:12

Maps and GPS analysis Final

• Map Men Final and map women final

The final of NORT Stage 1 was a typical urban sprint race – with a few long route choice legs (see map for the men above). Of these longer legs, the leg from 7 to 8 in the mens race proved to be very decisive for Lundanes, the winner of the qualification this morning. As you can see in the two illustration below, Lundanes and several other runners loose a lot of time to the ones taking a more direct route (note that GPS-times are very inaccurate – and the GPS of Kyburz stopped working around control 3):

The other route choice legs on the men’s course did not have the same impact. The one from 3 to 4 was the one splitting the runners most into left and right choices – but no significant time gains were made here:

Results final (unofficial)

Men

1	21		Matthias Kyburz	15:49.0
2	28		Matthias Merz	15:58.3	+9.3
3	24		Fabian Hertner	15:59.4	+10.4
4	26		Matthias Müller	16:02.5	+13.5
5	27		Daniel Hubmann	16:05.9	+16.9
6	16		William Lind	16:09.6	+20.6
7	4		Erik Rost	16:13.6	+24.6
8	17		Scott Fraser	16:14.1	+25.1
9	10		Andreas Kyburz	16:17.7	+28.7
10	1		Anders Holmberg	16:24.3	+35.3
11	2		Martin Hubmann	16:24.9	+35.9
12	7		Valentin Novikov	16:29.1	+40.1
13	20		Andrey Khramov	16:34.7	+45.7
14	8		Øystein Kvaal_Østerbø	16:41.2	+52.2
15	11		Mats Haldin	16:43.5	+54.5
16	22		Baptiste Rollier	16:44.9	+55.9
17	13		Gustav Bergman	16:46.9	+57.9
18	5		Tue Lassen	16:47.0	+58.0
19	23		Carl Waaler_Kaas	16:47.2	+58.2
20	30		Olav Lundanes	16:52.5	+1:03.5
21	9		Audun Weltzien	16:58.6	+1:09.6

Women

1	108		Linnea Gustafsson	15:44.3
2	111		Lena Eliasson	15:52.7	+8.4
3	124		Annika Billstam	15:54.4	+10.1
4	117		Signe Søes	16:01.5	+17.2
5	118		Rahel Friederich	16:07.6	+23.3
6	123		Tove Alexandersson	16:20.2	+35.9
7	106		Ines Brodmann	16:31.9	+47.6
8	128		Merja Rantanen	16:37.0	+52.7
9	130		Anni-Maija Fincke	16:48.0	+1:03.7
10	125		Maja Alm	16:49.3	+1:05.0
11	110		Amélie Chataing	16:54.2	+1:09.9
12	102		Tessa Hill	16:54.3	+1:10.0
13	122		Julia Novikova	16:54.5	+1:10.2
14	119		Judith Wyder	16:55.8	+1:11.5
15	103		Lina Strand	16:59.2	+1:14.9
16	112		Angela Wild	17:01.7	+1:17.4
17	121		Emma Claesson	17:04.8	+1:20.5
18	109		Elise Egseth	17:09.4	+1:25.1
19	127		Tone Wigemyr	17:14.8	+1:30.5
20	129		Heidi Bagstevold	17:15.7	+1:31.4
21	116		Sofie Johansson	17:21.0	+1:36.7
22	126		Mari Fasting	17:27.8	+1:43.5
23	107		Outi Ojanen	17:29.9	+1:45.6
24	115		Venla Niemi	17:30.1	+1:45.8
25	105		Ekaterina Popovich	17:41.2	+1:56.9
26	101		Galina Vinogradova	17:45.1	+2:00.8
27	113		Bodil Holmström	17:58.1	+2:13.8
28	120		Claire Ward	18:03.0	+2:18.7
29	104		Nataliya Vinogradova	18:25.1	+2:40.8
30	114		Maria Rantala	18:35.4	+2:51.1

• Full results

Qualification

Olav Lundanes took a clear victory in the qualification of NORT Stage 1 – taking with him a big lead into the remainder of the Tour. Anni-Maija Fincke took an equally clear victory in the womens class. It looks like this qualification race will be just as important as expected, with big differences – nearly 2:30 down to number 10 on the results list both in the mens class and in the womens class.

The qualification was dominated by Norwegian, Finnish and Swiss runners. Lundanes (NOR) ahead of Ikonen (FIN) and Merz, Hubmann, Müller (all SUI) followed by Föhr (FIN), Hertner (SUI) and Waaler Kaas (NOR) in the mens class – and Fincke (FIN) ahead of Bagstevold (NOR), Rantanen (FIN) and Wigemyr, Fasting (both NOR) in the womens class. The Swedes were surprisingly absent from the top of the results lists – 11th spot in the mens class (Runesson) and 7th spot in the womens class (Billstam, after a huge mistake at the end of the course).

The best 30 men/women go on to the final in the afternoon (from 15:00 CET). Down to number 30 in the mens class there was around 4 minutes – 4:30 for the women. With 120 bonus seconds to the winner of the final – and down to 1 second to number 30 – the running time in the final not counting, the loss of a spot in the final is the least worry for those outside the Top 30 with respect to the NORT overall standings …

Maps and illustrations Qualification

• Map Men Qual and map Women Qual

The qualification courses were more middle distance than sprint – with tricky and technical orienteering. That can also be seen on the results list – the top finishers are rather middle distance specialists than sprint specialists.

Below you see the most interesting route choice leg in the mens race – leg number 2 to 3. A straight route choice was the fastest – and quite a few runners lost valuable time by going around. The fastest runner taking the left and right route choices were Swiss runners Andreas Kyburz and Matthias Müller respectively – both loosing around 30 valuable seconds in the overall.

Comparing the two fastest men of the qualification – Lundanes and Ikonen using the autOanalysis function (soon coming to 3DRerun), you can see that the running speed of Lundanes and Ikonen seems to have been approximately the same – if anything Ikonen was faster on shear running speed (Note! Handle these illustrations with care – study carefully before making your conclusions). Differences are especially in the route choices where Lundanes did better choices to number 3 and to number 5. Ikonen also seems to have a bad period around leg 12 and 13 – loosing time on what looks like micro route choices. The two runners have different routes from 14 to 15 – but here time differences are very small.

Below you find the complete courses and the GPS tracking.

• Map Men Qual
• Map Women Qual

Live services

Links to live services:

• Live GPS-tracking (both qualification and final)
• Live results – available from here (both qualification and final)
• Live webTV via YLE from 15:00-16:00 CET and 17:00-17:50 CET (Finals only)
• Nordic Orienteering Tour webpage

Results Qualification (unofficial)

Men

1	269		Olav Lundanes	30:35
2	253		Pasi Ikonen	30:59	+24
3	262		Matthias Merz	31:33	+58
4	270		Daniel Hubmann	31:51	+1:16
5	267		Matthias Müller	31:59	+1:24
6	258		Tero Föhr	32:12	+1:37
7	264		Fabian Hertner	32:23	+1:48
8	268		Carl Waaler_Kaas	32:28	+1:53
9	257		Baptiste Rollier	32:51	+2:16
10	243		Matthias Kyburz	32:58	+2:23
11	254		Andrey Khramov	33:01	+2:26
	234		Johan Runesson	33:01	+2:26
13	232		Simonas Krepšta	33:06	+2:31
14	252		Scott Fraser	33:11	+2:36
15	246		William Lind	33:13	+2:38
16	251		Hans_Gunnar Omdal	33:24	+2:49
17	208		Gustav Bergman	33:32	+2:57
	231		Olle Boström	33:32	+2:57
19	239		Hannu Airila	33:34	+2:59
20	260		Mats Haldin	33:36	+3:01

Women

1	347		Anni-Maija Fincke	32:53
2	335		Heidi Bagstevold	33:17	+24
3	346		Merja Rantanen	33:20	+27
4	337		Tone Wigemyr	33:27	+34
5	342		Mari Fasting	33:43	+50
6	345		Maja Alm	34:22	+1:29
7	349		Annika Billstam	34:28	+1:35
8	332		Tove Alexandersson	34:40	+1:47
9	338		Julia Novikova	34:44	+1:51
10	344		Emma Claesson	34:51	+1:58
11	308		Claire Ward	35:03	+2:10
12	336		Judith Wyder	35:16	+2:23
13	341		Rahel Friederich	35:24	+2:31
14	350		Signe Søes	35:40	+2:47
15	303		Sofie Johansson	35:43	+2:50
16	321		Venla Niemi	35:45	+2:52
17	340		Maria Rantala	35:46	+2:53
18	326		Bodil Holmström	36:03	+3:10
19	339		Angela Wild	36:21	+3:28
20	348		Lena Eliasson	36:28	+3:35

• Results Qualification

About NORT Stage 1

The tour starts with a qualification race on the morning. The 30 best women and men are qualified for the final in the evening. The time from the qualification race is the time that counts for the tour. In the final the winner get 120 seconds in bonus and then all the other runners get less time down to 1 second.

This stage of a prolonged Sprint as a qualification race in the morning, with a winning time of 30-35 minutes, followed by a Sprint final in the evening. The qualification race has an individual interval start with a 1 minute start interval. The start order for the qualification race is determined by the reverse standing of the official World Rankings as published at the end of May 2011. The qualification race times (less any bonus seconds) are used (together with the day two qualification race times) to calculate the start times for NORT day three. The final is for the top 30 athletes from the qualification race. The start order is the reverse order of the qualification race
results (winner starts last).

Terrain for middle distance style sprint is mainly pine and spuce mixed forest, good visibility, dense network of paths and mainly good run ability. Kokonniemi hill is 60 m above Porvoo river level on its highest point; so that part is rather hilly and physically demanding. It has sharp slopes and steeps. The hill area is partly very detailed demanding concentration and offering enjoyable orienteering with variable speed. Only minor part has a nature of park. Good visibility.

Sprint is run in urban area in the centre of the Old Town with old stone and wooden houses, mainly cobblestone roads, stairs and small alleys. The area has mainly level underfoot, thus offering good run ability. Old Porvoo Castle hill as well as parts of western side of Porvoo river with sharp slopes and wide paths are sandy and partly uneven. Some grassy areas appear. Generally very good visibility.

NORT 2011 Program

Following the qualification Thursday morning is a regular sprint final in the afternoon. The race time for this sprint final does not count in the overall – instead bonus seconds are awarded – 120 seconds for the winner, 90 seconds for number two, and 70, 60, 55, 50, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 18, 17, 16 and so on down to 1 second for number 30.

After stage 1 in Finland on Thursday, NORT moves to Sweden with a KnockOut-sprint in Göteborg on Tuesday. The NORT final is a chasing start south of Oslo in Norway. The full program is shown in the table below:

Stage 1	Thursday June 16th	Qual 08.00 CET: Prolonged Sprint Final 15.00 CET: Regular sprint
Stage 2	Tuesday June 21st	Qual 10.00 CET: Regular Sprint Quarterfinal 13.00 CET: KnockOut sprint Semifinal 18.10 CET: KnockOut sprint Final 19.10 CET: KnockOut sprint
Stage 3	Saturday June 25th	Prolonged Middle distance Chasing start based on overall standing Start 14.00 CET (women) and 15.00 CET (men)

[Updated with maps!] Follow live GPS tracking from the qualification (08:00) and live GPS tracking and live TV from the final (15:00) from stage 1 of the Nordic Orienteering Tour today! The Nordic Orienteering Tours (NORT) marks the first part of the 2011 World Cup, and with 300 World Cup points to be won at NORT, the future 2011 overall World Cup winner will definitely have to participate at the NORT. Remember to set up your Fantasy World Cup team by 09:00 CET.

Links to live services:

• New! Analysis, maps and results from Stage 1
• Live GPS-tracking (both qualification and final)
• Live results – available from here (both qualification and final)
• Live webTV via YLE from 15:00-16:00 CET and 17:00-17:50 CET (Finals only)
• Start list stage 1
• Nordic Orienteering Tour webpage

About NORT Stage 1

The tour starts with a qualification race on the morning. The 30 best women and men are qualified for the final in the evening. The time from the qualification race is the time that counts for the tour. In the final the winner get 120 seconds in bonus and then all the other runners get less time down to 1 second.

This stage of a prolonged Sprint as a qualification race in the morning, with a winning time of 30-35 minutes, followed by a Sprint final in the evening. The qualification race has an individual interval start with a 1 minute start interval. The start order for the qualification race is determined by the reverse standing of the official World Rankings as published at the end of May 2011. The qualification race times (less any bonus seconds) are used (together with the day two qualification race times) to calculate the start times for NORT day three. The final is for the top 30 athletes from the qualification race. The start order is the reverse order of the qualification race
results (winner starts last).

Terrain for middle distance style sprint is mainly pine and spuce mixed forest, good visibility, dense network of paths and mainly good run ability. Kokonniemi hill is 60 m above Porvoo river level on its highest point; so that part is rather hilly and physically demanding. It has sharp slopes and steeps. The hill area is partly very detailed demanding concentration and offering enjoyable orienteering with variable speed. Only minor part has a nature of park. Good visibility.

Sprint is run in urban area in the centre of the Old Town with old stone and wooden houses, mainly cobblestone roads, stairs and small alleys. The area has mainly level underfoot, thus offering good run ability. Old Porvoo Castle hill as well as parts of western side of Porvoo river with sharp slopes and wide paths are sandy and partly uneven. Some grassy areas appear. Generally very good visibility.

NORT 2011 Program

Following the qualification Thursday morning is a regular sprint final in the afternoon. The race time for this sprint final does not count in the overall – instead bonus seconds are awarded – 120 seconds for the winner, 90 seconds for number two, and 70, 60, 55, 50, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 18, 17, 16 and so on down to 1 second for number 30.

After stage 1 in Finland on Thursday, NORT moves to Sweden with a KnockOut-sprint in Göteborg on Tuesday. The NORT final is a chasing start south of Oslo in Norway. The full program is shown in the table below:

Stage 1	Thursday June 16th	Qual 08.00 CET: Prolonged Sprint Final 15.00 CET: Regular sprint
Stage 2	Tuesday June 21st	Qual 10.00 CET: Regular Sprint Quarterfinal 13.00 CET: KnockOut sprint Semifinal 18.10 CET: KnockOut sprint Final 19.10 CET: KnockOut sprint
Stage 3	Saturday June 25th	Prolonged Middle distance Chasing start based on overall standing Start 14.00 CET (women) and 15.00 CET (men)

3 stages – 3 countries – 9 days. Already the qualification Thursday morning will be very important for the overall results – a 30-35 minute “prolonged sprint” with the race time counting in the overall results – part of the terrain being described as rather hilly and physically demanding “offering enjoyable orienteering with variable speed”.

• New! Startlist qualification stage 2 now up on NORT page. Timetable stage 2 (Tuesday June 21st): Qual 10:00, Quarterfinal 13:00, Semifinal 18:10 CET, Final 19:10 CET. All times are CET. There is only live results in the morning, but there will be live TV for the finals
• Remember to set up your Fantasy World Cup team – last chance is Tuesday 10:00 CET for Stage 2.

The Nordic Orienteering Tours (NORT) marks the first part of the 2011 World Cup, and with 300 World Cup points to be won at NORT, the future 2011 overall World Cup winner will definitely have to participate at the NORT.
Stage 1 and 2 gives the half the points compared to a normal World Cup-event, i.e. 50 points to the winner of stage 1 and 2. For the total results of NORT, the winner gets 200 World Cup points.

Many top runners decided to skip the Nordic Orienteering Tour in 2010 – and we see the same trend in 2011 even if there is overall prize money of 31.000 Euro in NORT 2011. In the womens class all of the Top 5 on the WRE-ranking are not on the start – all these are however out due to injuries/childbirth. In the mens class three of the Top 10 on the WRE-list are missing – but again all are due to injuries or retirement except for Thierry Gueorgiou who does not prioritize NORT in 2011. Of the Top 30 on the WRE list in the men’s class, 12 are missing in NORT. The corresponding number in the womens class is 13 missing. You can see the full list of participants compared to the current WRE standings further down on the page.

NORT 2010 winner Audun Weltzien is among the favourites also in 2011.

NORT 2011 Program

Following the qualification Thursday morning is a regular sprint final in the afternoon. The race time for this sprint final does not count in the overall – instead bonus seconds are awarded – 120 seconds for the winner, 90 seconds for number two, and 70, 60, 55, 50, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 18, 17, 16 and so on down to 1 second for number 30.

After stage 1 in Finland on Thursday, NORT moves to Sweden with a KnockOut-sprint in Göteborg on Tuesday. The NORT final is a chasing start south of Oslo in Norway. The full program is shown in the table below:

Stage 1	Thursday June 16th	Qual 08.00 CET: Prolonged Sprint Final 15.00 CET: Regular sprint
Stage 2	Tuesday June 21st	Qual 10.00 CET: Regular Sprint Quarterfinal 13.00 CET: KnockOut sprint Semifinal 18.10 CET: KnockOut sprint Final 19.10 CET: KnockOut sprint
Stage 3	Saturday June 25th	Prolonged Middle distance Chasing start based on overall standing Start 14.00 CET (women) and 15.00 CET (men)

See also the detailed program at the bottom of this article with more information about each stage, bonus seconds etc..

Fantasy World Cup

New year – new rules – more fun! The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition where you can set up a World Cup Team consisting of 10 runners (either men, women or a mix), and get points according to their performance. New in 2011! Your team must contain two runners outside the ‘Red group’ – thus giving room for some more tactics.

• Read more and set up your team here

Old maps from the competition areas

• NORT stage 1 part 1 and part 2 (Note! The new map will be according to ISSOM)
• NORT stage 2
• NORT stage 3 (O-festivalen) part 1 and part 2 (Note! There is also an old map from 2006 which I have not seen online)

How to follow NORT live

There will be excellent possibilities to follow the NORT races live – so look forward to some high class orienteering events the coming week (with the Jukola relay in between). Here are the live possibilities.

• WebTV: (All WebTV available from here)
  • Live web-TV from stage 1 final (via Finnish broadcaster YLE – also available outside Finland). Broadcast from 15.00 CET.
  • Live web-TV from stage 2 final round (via SVT Play – should will also be available outside Sweden – please check back for final confirmation).
  • Live web-TV from stage 3 is planned based on the big screen production – depending on if the organizers manage to get the required bandwidth.
• GPS-tracking: (All live tracking available from here)
  • Live GPS-tracking from stage 1 (both qualification and final)
  • There will be live GPS-tracking from stage 2 for the TV-production, and this will probably also be live on the Internet (please check back for more information).
  • Live GPS-tracking from stage 3.
• Live results: (All live results available from here)
  • Live results from all stages – both qualifications and finals.

Useful links

• Nordic Orienteering Tour webpage
• Bulletin 3 – NORT 2011

Below you see the participants for NORT 2011 (as of June 14th 22:00 CET) compared to the Top 100 World Ranking list. As you see, many top names are missing – but there will still be a tough fight for the top positions. According to the NORT webpage, in the mens class all the top 10 runners from last year are coming this year. In the ladies 7 of the top 10 are going to fight about the prize money.

Men 1. Thierry Gueorgiou (DNS) 2. Daniel Hubmann 3. Olav Lundanes 4. Matthias Mueller 4. Anders Nordberg 6. Carl Waaler Kaas 7. Audun Weltzien 8. Emil Wingstedt (DNS) 9. Francois Gonon (DNS) 10. Mats Haldin 10. Øystein Kvaal Østerbø 12. Oleksandr Kratov (DNS) 13. Valentin Novikov 14. Matthias Merz 15. Graham Gristwood 16. Peter Öberg (DNS) 17. Tero Föhr 18. Baptiste Rollier 19. Pasi Ikonen 20. David Andersson (DNS) 21. Dmitriy Tsvetkov (DNS) 22. Andrey Khramov 23. Scott Fraser 24. Philippe Adamski (DNS) 25. Tuomas Tervo (DNS) 26. Fabian Hertner 27. Marc Lauenstein (DNS) 28. Lars Skjeset (DNS) 29. Marcus Millegård (DNS) 30. Tue Lassen 31. Jan Prochazka (DNS) 32. Wojciech Kowalski (DNS) 33. Jerker Lysell 34. Chris Forne (DNS) 35. Frédéric TRANCHAND 36. Mikkel Lund (DNS) 37. Tomas Dlabaja (DNS) 38. Olle Kärner (DNS) 39. Kiril Nikolov 40. Michal Smola (DNS) 41. William Lind 42. Erik Rost 43. Matthias Kyburz 44. Søren Bobach 45. Pavlo Ushkvarok (DNS) 46. Olli-Markus Taivainen 47. Hannu Airila (DNS) 47. Jonn Myhren 49. Oleksandr Starov (DNS) 50. Andreas Kyburz 51. Mikhail Mamleev (DNS) 52. Anders Holmberg 52. Gernot Kerschbaumer 54. Jan Sedivy (DNS) 55. Jonas Gvildys 56. Jarkko Huovila (DNS) 57. Zsolt Lenkei (DNS) 58. Johan Runesson 59. Mattias Millinger (DNS) 60. Jani Lakanen (DNS) 61. Mattias Karlsson (HALDEN SK) (DNS) 62. Yury Tambasov (DNS) 63. Martins Sirmais 64. Olle Boström 65. Andreas Ruedlinger 66. Ionut Zinca (DNS) 67. Matthew Crane (DNS) 68. Fabien Pasquasy (DNS) 69. Wojciech Dwojak (DNS) 70. Simonas Krepsta 71. Murray Stain 72. Roger Casal (DNS) 72. Rasmus Thrane Hansen 74. Håvard Lucasen 75. Klaus Schgaguler (DNS) 76. Edgars Bertuks (DNS) 77. Lukas Bartak (DNS) 78. Gaute Hallan Steiwer 79. Peeter Pihl (DNS) 80. Gustav Bergman 81. Severin Howald (DNS) 82. Fredrik Johansson (DNS) 83. Alexey Bortnik 84. Timo Sild (DNS) 85. Marco Seppi (DNS) 86. Stepan Kodeda (DNS) 86. Ádám Kovács (DNS) 88. Nicolas Simonin (DNS) 89. Damien Renard (DNS) 90. Julian Dent (DNS) 91. Ivaylo Kamenarov (DNS) 92. Sergey Detkov 93. Rune Olsen (DNS) 94. Ulf Forseth Indgaard (DNS) 95. Dmitry Mikhalkin (DNS) 96. Ross Morrison (DNS) 97. Rasmus Djurhuus 98. Raffael Huber (DNS) 99. Simon Uppill (DNS) 100. Vincent COUPAT

Women 1. Simone Niggli-Luder (DNS) 2. Marianne Andersen (DNS) 3. Helena Jansson (DNS) 4. Minna Kauppi (DNS) 5. Anne Margrethe Hausken (DNS) 6. Annika Billstam 7. Anni-Maija Fincke 8. Vroni Koenig-Salmi (DNS) 9. Signe Søes 10. Merja Rantanen 11. Dana Brožková (DNS) 12. Emma Claesson 13. Lena Eliasson 14. Maja Alm 15. Eva Jurenikova (DNS) 16. Mari Fasting 17. Celine Dodin (DNS) 18. Caroline Cejka (DNS) 19. Elise Egseth 20. Julia Novikova 21. Sara Lüscher (DNS) 22. Vendula Klechova (DNS) 23. Rahel Friederich 24. Maria Rantala 25. Ida Bobach (DNS) 26. Tone Wigemyr 27. Linnea Gustafsson 28. Judith Wyder 29. Angela Wild 30. Heidi Bagstevold 31. Ines Brodmann 32. Tove Alexandersson 33. Inga Kazlauskaite (DNS) 34. Pippa Archer 35. Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen 36. Galina Vinogradova 37. Amélie CHATAING 37. Riina Kuuselo (DNS) 39. Sarah Rollins 40. Sofia Haajanen (DNS) 41. Sandra Pauzaite (DNS) 42. Beata Falk (DNS) 43. Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul 44. Capucine Vercellotti (DNS) 45. Aija Skrastina (DNS) 46. Saila Kinni 47. Line Hagman 48. Bodil Holmström 49. Hanna Wisniewska (DNS) 50. Emma Johansson (DNS) 51. Iveta Duchova (DNS) 52. Olga Sluta (DNS) 53. Helen Bridle (DNS) 54. Silje Ekroll Jahren 55. Martina Spurna (DNS) 56. Martina Dockalova (DNS) 57. Venla Niemi 58. Bettina Aebi 59. Karin Schmalfeld (DNS) 60. Charlotte Bouchet (DNS) 61. Michela Guizzardi (DNS) 61. Annika Rihma (DNS) 63. Rachael Elder 64. Grace Elson (DNS) 65. Merike Vanjuk (DNS) 66. Anastasiia Danylova (DNS) 67. Ursula Kadan (DNS) 67. Lina Strand 69. Louise Oram (DNS) 70. Emma Andersson (SÄVEDALEN (DNS) 71. Radka Brozkova (DNS) 72. Shuangyan Hao (DNS) 73. Brigitte Mühlemann (DNS) 74. Hollie Orr 75. Monika Gajda (DNS) 75. Helen Palmer 77. Sarka Svobodna (DNS) 78. Rasa Ptašekaite (DNS) 79. Samantha Saeger (DNS) 80. Daria Lajn (DNS) 81. Tessa Hill 82. Nicole Scalet (DNS) 83. Iliana Shandurkova (DNS) 84. Yvonne Gunell (DNS) 84. Kirti Rebane (DNS) 86. Josefine Engström (DNS) 87. Liis Johanson (DNS) 88. Sofia Adolfsson (DNS) 89. Zenia Hejlskov Mogensen (DNS) 90. Zsuzsa Fey (DNS) 91. Ona Rafols Perramon (DNS) 92. Alia Sitdikova (DNS) 93. Ulrika Uotila 94. Niamh O’Boyle 95. Kim Geypen (DNS) 96. Shannon Jones (DNS) 97. Bohdana Heczková (DNS) 98. Fanni Gyurkó (DNS) 99. Alison Crocker (DNS) 100. Christine Kirchlechner (DNS)

Stage 1

The tour starts with a qualification race on the morning. The 30 best women and men are qualified for the final in the evening. The time from the qualification race is the time that counts for the tour. In the final the winner get 120 seconds in bonus and then all the other runners get less time down to 1 second.

This stage of a prolonged Sprint as a qualification race in the morning, with a winning time of 30-35 minutes, followed by a Sprint final in the evening. The qualification race has an individual interval start with a 1 minute start interval. The start order for the qualification race is determined by the reverse standing of the official World Rankings as published at the end of May 2011. The qualification race times (less any bonus seconds) are used (together with the day two qualification race times) to calculate the start times for NORT day three. The final is for the top 30 athletes from the qualification race. The start order is the reverse order of the qualification race
results (winner starts last).

Terrain for middle distance style sprint is mainly pine and spuce mixed forest, good visibility, dense network of paths and mainly good run ability. Kokonniemi hill is 60 m above Porvoo river level on its highest point; so that part is rather hilly and physically demanding. It has sharp slopes and steeps. The hill area is partly very detailed demanding concentration and offering enjoyable orienteering with variable speed. Only minor part has a nature of park. Good visibility.

Sprint is run in urban area in the centre of the Old Town with old stone and wooden houses, mainly cobblestone roads, stairs and small alleys. The area has mainly level underfoot, thus offering good run ability. Old Porvoo Castle hill as well as parts of western side of Porvoo river with sharp slopes and wide paths are sandy and partly uneven. Some grassy areas appear. Generally very good visibility.

Stage 2

In the morning it is a qualification race, the 30 best are qualified and divided into 5 quarter finals. There are 5 consecutive mass-start quarter-finals each running the same course with a 7-9 minute winning time. The 2 best runners in each heat are qualified for semifinal and also the 2 runners with the fastest times in places 3 and 4.

The 2 semifinal-heats also have 6 runners in each heat and the qualification for the final is the same as for the semi-final. All runners that are qualified for quarter-final get bonus time from 120 to 1 second. There are 2 consecutive mass-start semi-finals each running the same course with a 6-8 minute winning time. The final will be a mass-start Sprint with a 8-10 minute winning time.

The terrain is mixed of urban areas and parks, moderately hilly, some large building complexes connected. Dry and mainly level underfoot, therefore good run ability. Generally very good visibility.

Stage 3

The last stage is a chase start where the total time and bonus time makes the ground for the start list. This makes that the runner that is first over the finish-line is the winner of NORT. Stage 3 is a prolonged Middle Distance chasing start (women 40 minutes, men 50 minutes) with the start times based on the NORT overall time standings after two days.

Only runners who started in both of the qualification races of NORT days one and two may start on day three. Runners who started but were not placed in either (or both) of the qualification races of NORT days one and two will take part in a separate interval start competition on the same course with the first runner starting 10 minutes after the last chasing start runner has departed. There will be a 2 minute start interval and individual start times are drawn at random. The first runner to the finish is the NORT winner.

The terrain is mainly old coniferous forest but also parts with mixed forest. Medium hilly with mostly good runability. Some bigger marshes and a dense network of small and bigger paths.

New year – new rules – more fun! The World Cup starts the following Thursday at the Nordic Orienteering Tour, and it is now time to set up your own Team of Elite Runners, and follow them through this years World Cup. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition where you can set up a World Cup Team consisting of 10 runners (either men, women or a mix), and get points according to their performance. New in 2011! Your team must contain two runners outside the ‘Red group’ – thus giving room for some more tactics.

• Set up your Fantasy World Cup team here – last chance ahead of the first World Cup race is Thursday June 16th 09:00 CET.
• Participants in Nordic Orienteering Tour 2010 (see also this overview article with all the starters who are within the Top 100 on the WRE list)
• Results WoO Fantasy World Cup 2010

Disclaimer! This is a very experimental ‘for-fun’ service, and errors may (and will) occur. Only runners who were top 500 on the World Ranking as of June 15th are to be included on your team. The red group is defined by runners who were inside the Top 50 on the World Ranking as of June 15th. Take it for what it is, and have fun with it!

Rules

Choose a Team consisting of 10 runners (you can choose arbitrary number of men/women).

Points are calculated in the following way:

• For each World Cup race, your score is calculated as the World Cup points of the 10 runners in your team
• Your 8 best total sums of the 10 World Cup races count in the total figure
• You may drag as many runners over to your team in the right column as you want, but only the 10 topmost runners count in your sum
• Of the top 10 in your list, 2 runners must be outside the red group, i.e. marked with **. If you have no runners outside the red group in your team, only the 8 first on the list will give you points. The red group was defined as runners inside the Top 50 on the World Ranking event as of June 15th 2011. Runners in the red group may change during the season. If changes to the ‘Red group’ are made, this will be announced via e-mail.
• Bonus: In each World Cup race, you get a bonus of 50% of the points for the runner who is on the top of your team-list. Another 25% bonus for the runner on second place on your team-list, and yet another 10% bonus for the runner who is number three on your team-list
• You can change which runners are in your team between each race
• Last chance to change your team ahead of each World Cup race is given in the overview table here.
• Note! This is a very experimental ‘for-fun’ service, and errors may (and will) occur.
• Calculation of points will be done after each World Cup round – but you may change your team ahead of each competition.

See the complete rules – and register your Team here!.

List of participants NORT 2011

Below you see the participants for NORT 2011 (as of June 14th 22:00 CET) compared to the Top 100 World Ranking list. As you see, many top names are missing – but there will still be a tough fight for the top positions. According to the NORT webpage, in the mens class all the top 10 runners from last year are coming this year. In the ladies 7 of the top 10 are going to fight about the prize money.

Men 1. Thierry Gueorgiou (DNS) 2. Daniel Hubmann 3. Olav Lundanes 4. Matthias Mueller 4. Anders Nordberg 6. Carl Waaler Kaas 7. Audun Weltzien 8. Emil Wingstedt (DNS) 9. Francois Gonon (DNS) 10. Mats Haldin 10. Øystein Kvaal Østerbø 12. Oleksandr Kratov (DNS) 13. Valentin Novikov 14. Matthias Merz 15. Graham Gristwood 16. Peter Öberg (DNS) 17. Tero Föhr 18. Baptiste Rollier 19. Pasi Ikonen 20. David Andersson (DNS) 21. Dmitriy Tsvetkov (DNS) 22. Andrey Khramov 23. Scott Fraser 24. Philippe Adamski (DNS) 25. Tuomas Tervo (DNS) 26. Fabian Hertner 27. Marc Lauenstein (DNS) 28. Lars Skjeset (DNS) 29. Marcus Millegård (DNS) 30. Tue Lassen 31. Jan Prochazka (DNS) 32. Wojciech Kowalski (DNS) 33. Jerker Lysell 34. Chris Forne (DNS) 35. Frédéric TRANCHAND 36. Mikkel Lund (DNS) 37. Tomas Dlabaja (DNS) 38. Olle Kärner (DNS) 39. Kiril Nikolov 40. Michal Smola (DNS) 41. William Lind 42. Erik Rost 43. Matthias Kyburz 44. Søren Bobach 45. Pavlo Ushkvarok (DNS) 46. Olli-Markus Taivainen 47. Hannu Airila (DNS) 47. Jonn Myhren 49. Oleksandr Starov (DNS) 50. Andreas Kyburz 51. Mikhail Mamleev (DNS) 52. Anders Holmberg 52. Gernot Kerschbaumer 54. Jan Sedivy (DNS) 55. Jonas Gvildys 56. Jarkko Huovila (DNS) 57. Zsolt Lenkei (DNS) 58. Johan Runesson 59. Mattias Millinger (DNS) 60. Jani Lakanen (DNS) 61. Mattias Karlsson (HALDEN SK) (DNS) 62. Yury Tambasov (DNS) 63. Martins Sirmais 64. Olle Boström 65. Andreas Ruedlinger 66. Ionut Zinca (DNS) 67. Matthew Crane (DNS) 68. Fabien Pasquasy (DNS) 69. Wojciech Dwojak (DNS) 70. Simonas Krepsta 71. Murray Stain 72. Roger Casal (DNS) 72. Rasmus Thrane Hansen 74. Håvard Lucasen 75. Klaus Schgaguler (DNS) 76. Edgars Bertuks (DNS) 77. Lukas Bartak (DNS) 78. Gaute Hallan Steiwer 79. Peeter Pihl (DNS) 80. Gustav Bergman 81. Severin Howald (DNS) 82. Fredrik Johansson (DNS) 83. Alexey Bortnik 84. Timo Sild (DNS) 85. Marco Seppi (DNS) 86. Stepan Kodeda (DNS) 86. Ádám Kovács (DNS) 88. Nicolas Simonin (DNS) 89. Damien Renard (DNS) 90. Julian Dent (DNS) 91. Ivaylo Kamenarov (DNS) 92. Sergey Detkov 93. Rune Olsen (DNS) 94. Ulf Forseth Indgaard (DNS) 95. Dmitry Mikhalkin (DNS) 96. Ross Morrison (DNS) 97. Rasmus Djurhuus 98. Raffael Huber (DNS) 99. Simon Uppill (DNS) 100. Vincent COUPAT

Women 1. Simone Niggli-Luder (DNS) 2. Marianne Andersen (DNS) 3. Helena Jansson (DNS) 4. Minna Kauppi (DNS) 5. Anne Margrethe Hausken (DNS) 6. Annika Billstam 7. Anni-Maija Fincke 8. Vroni Koenig-Salmi (DNS) 9. Signe Søes 10. Merja Rantanen 11. Dana Brožková (DNS) 12. Emma Claesson 13. Lena Eliasson 14. Maja Alm 15. Eva Jurenikova (DNS) 16. Mari Fasting 17. Celine Dodin (DNS) 18. Caroline Cejka (DNS) 19. Elise Egseth 20. Julia Novikova 21. Sara Lüscher (DNS) 22. Vendula Klechova (DNS) 23. Rahel Friederich 24. Maria Rantala 25. Ida Bobach (DNS) 26. Tone Wigemyr 27. Linnea Gustafsson 28. Judith Wyder 29. Angela Wild 30. Heidi Bagstevold 31. Ines Brodmann 32. Tove Alexandersson 33. Inga Kazlauskaite (DNS) 34. Pippa Archer 35. Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen 36. Galina Vinogradova 37. Amélie CHATAING 37. Riina Kuuselo (DNS) 39. Sarah Rollins 40. Sofia Haajanen (DNS) 41. Sandra Pauzaite (DNS) 42. Beata Falk (DNS) 43. Ida Marie Næss Bjørgul 44. Capucine Vercellotti (DNS) 45. Aija Skrastina (DNS) 46. Saila Kinni 47. Line Hagman 48. Bodil Holmström 49. Hanna Wisniewska (DNS) 50. Emma Johansson (DNS) 51. Iveta Duchova (DNS) 52. Olga Sluta (DNS) 53. Helen Bridle (DNS) 54. Silje Ekroll Jahren 55. Martina Spurna (DNS) 56. Martina Dockalova (DNS) 57. Venla Niemi 58. Bettina Aebi 59. Karin Schmalfeld (DNS) 60. Charlotte Bouchet (DNS) 61. Michela Guizzardi (DNS) 61. Annika Rihma (DNS) 63. Rachael Elder 64. Grace Elson (DNS) 65. Merike Vanjuk (DNS) 66. Anastasiia Danylova (DNS) 67. Ursula Kadan (DNS) 67. Lina Strand 69. Louise Oram (DNS) 70. Emma Andersson (SÄVEDALEN (DNS) 71. Radka Brozkova (DNS) 72. Shuangyan Hao (DNS) 73. Brigitte Mühlemann (DNS) 74. Hollie Orr 75. Monika Gajda (DNS) 75. Helen Palmer 77. Sarka Svobodna (DNS) 78. Rasa Ptašekaite (DNS) 79. Samantha Saeger (DNS) 80. Daria Lajn (DNS) 81. Tessa Hill 82. Nicole Scalet (DNS) 83. Iliana Shandurkova (DNS) 84. Yvonne Gunell (DNS) 84. Kirti Rebane (DNS) 86. Josefine Engström (DNS) 87. Liis Johanson (DNS) 88. Sofia Adolfsson (DNS) 89. Zenia Hejlskov Mogensen (DNS) 90. Zsuzsa Fey (DNS) 91. Ona Rafols Perramon (DNS) 92. Alia Sitdikova (DNS) 93. Ulrika Uotila 94. Niamh O’Boyle 95. Kim Geypen (DNS) 96. Shannon Jones (DNS) 97. Bohdana Heczková (DNS) 98. Fanni Gyurkó (DNS) 99. Alison Crocker (DNS) 100. Christine Kirchlechner (DNS)

3DRerun: Orienteering Analysis the Fun way. And cool visualization! And a lot more than that as well! After more than a year of development 3DRerun is now open for YOU to use! Thanks to elite orienteers, national teams and others who have given valuable feedback, 3DRerun has now entered open beta testing.

Open beta testing means that there is still some development to be done, but 3DRerun is now considered to be up to a standard which makes it usable and ready for a larger user base. Please provide feedback as a comment below if you have problems using 3DRerun, or if you have suggestions for improvements.

Below is an example of what you can easily do in 3DRerun (example from 10Mila 2010 – open it in 3DRerun here). After setting up a user in 3DRerun, you can make similar analysis with your own GPS data. Several national teams have used 3DRerun this way to analyze their training camps.

3DRerun example from 10Mila 2010. Click here to replay in 3DRerun yourself.

This post will be followed up by articles at World of O and o-training.net on how to use 3DRerun for analysis and other purposes the coming weeks.

• Head over to the 3DRerun start page
• Videos with instructions on how to use 3DRerun (see a few of them below)
• 3DRerun demo videos
• Note! You need to register with email-address/password in order to upload maps/routes to 3DRerun – this is a anti-spam measure. Please check your spam-folder if you don’t receive an email after registering.

As of now there are 23.000 routes/maps in 3DRerun. A majority of these are directly imported from omaps.worldofo.com – using the fact that maps exported from QuickRoute have GPS-data embedded for the calibration. Note that many of these maps are not accurately calibrated due to people using many calibration points in QuickRoute when adjusting map/route. Check out the intro-video at the bottom of this page to see how to adjust you map/route to get the best performance in 3DRerun.

Note! 3DRerun works best in the Google Chrome browser – but should also work in Internet Explorer (from version 7 and up) and in Firefox (from version 3 – note however some problems in Firefox 4). Please report problems in any of the browsers.

HowTo: Your first 3DRerun analysis

This screencast takes you through a simple analysis in 3DRerun. The sample case is test races for WOC 2011 in the Annecy-area in France. Four maps/routes which are already in 3DRerun are used for the analysis. The screencast takes you through opening the routes, changing background map, starting/stopping the animation, changing animation speed, making an analysis on a simple leg by introducing control points, and doing a simple chrono-analysis.

HowTo: Add your own maps from QuickRoute

This screencast takes you through how to prepare and upload your own maps to 3DRerun. The sample case is a local race in Bergen. It also takes you through some simple analysis.