Jukola 2013: All you need to know!

Jan Kocbach June 14, 2013 Orienteering News Comments Off on Jukola 2013: All you need to know!

22:00 CET on Saturday Jukola starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the Jukola and Venla relays.

Jukola 2013 is organized in Jämsä around 200 km north of Helsinki.

Live TV/results/tracking/startlists

Live TV feed: Jukola and Venla (via YLE, from 12:45 CET for Venla and from 21:50 CET for Jukola – see also Finnish language version)
Live results
There is GPS Tracking (for around 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 (see also statistics by country)- startlists will be public for all teams from Saturday morning
Jukola webpage and competition information

Map and terrain

There are quite large height differences in the terrain, the highest hills offer climbing about 50 meters. The runnability is basically good, with only a few rocky places. The open rock areas are not very large. There are some signs of forestry work typical to commercial forests. Also, signs of gravel taking are visible in terrain and on the map, even though most of the gravel pits are already overgrown.

Old map of competition area made setting pieces together: [1] [2]
Search for maps in omaps.worldofo.com close to the competition area
Old maps on Jukola.com
Browse all old Jukola maps in omaps.worldofo.com
A relevant Jukola training – just south of the arena
See also an old article about forking in Jukola relays (via o-training.net)

Venla relay

Start: 13:00 CET (14:00 local time) – all time below are local time ; subtract one hour for CET

Leg		Length (km)	Estimated time (min)		Change-over/finish time		Climb (m)
1		8,0–8,1	53		14:53		180
2		6,0–6,1	33		15:26		65
3		6,0–6,1	33		15:59		65
4		8,5–8,6	55		16:54		190
Total	28,7 km			2 h 54 min		500 m

Top teams last year:

1	12	Halden SK	NOR	2:57:29	Anne M Hausken Nordberg	54:36
2	18	Paimion Rasti	FIN	+1:32	Inga Dambe	55:52
3	54	OK Pan Århus	DEN	+2:09	Maja Alm	56:42
4	11	Sävedalens AIK	SWE	+3:46	Jahren Silje Ekroll	55:37
5	47	Leksands OK	SWE	+4:19	Helena Jansson	55:48
6	16	SK Pohjantähti	FIN	+5:02	Sofia Haajanen	57:12
7	35	OK Linne	SWE	+5:16	Annika Billstam	55:56
8	6	Bäkkelagets SK	NOR	+5:37	Bagstevold Heidi Östlid	57:09
9	13	OK Tisaren	SWE	+5:41	Simone Niggli	54:40
10	1	Domnarvets GoIF	SWE	+6:04	Lena Eliasson	58:18
11	146	Asikkalan Raikas	FIN	+8:34	Minna Kauppi	50:55
12	15	Göteborg Majorna OK	SWE	+10:07	Lina Strand	59:06
13	71	Halden SK 2	NOR	+10:23	Bodil Holmström	59:00
14	5	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	+11:54	Amelie Chataing	58:33
15	75	Tullinge SK	SWE	+12:46	Anna Ställberg	59:26

Results from previous years

There is forking on all legs. Courses include 825 -865 meters of marked routes. Competitors born in 1998 and earlier may run all legs.

Jukola relay

Start: 22:00 CET (23:00 local time) – all time below are local time ; subtract one hour for CET

Leg	Length (km)		Light	Estimated time (min)	Change-over/finish time		Climb (m)
1	12,2–12,4		light/dusk	69	00:09		285
2	12,7–12,9		dark	71	01:20		285
3	14,2–14,4		dark	79	02:39		350
4	7,6–7,8		dusk/light	44	03:23		135
5	7,5–7,7		light	41	04:04		135
6	11,5–11,6		light	64	05:08		245
7	15,0–15,1		light	82	06:30		365
Total		81,3 km		7 h 30 min		1800 m

There is forking on all legs.Courses include 825-865 meters of marked routes. The sun sets on Saturday, June 15th, at 11:31p.m. and rises on Sunday, June 16th, at 3:31 a.m. Competitors born in 1997-1998 may participate in legs 4-6. Competitors born in 1996 and earlier may run all legs.

Top teams last year:

1	2	Kalevan Rasti	FIN	7:56:02	Fabian Hertner	1:26:49
2	26	Malungs OK Skogsmårdarna	SWE	+8:11	William Lind	1:28:55
3	1	Halden SK	NOR	+12:15	Olav Lundanes	1:23:55
4	3	Delta	FIN	+13:30	Valentin Novikov	1:30:52
5	5	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter	SWE	+15:43	Scott Fraser	1:29:09
6	166	Vehkalahden Veikot	FIN	+16:22	Marc Lauenstein	1:30:02
7	4	Vaajakosken Terä	FIN	+16:35	Anders Nordberg	1:27:12
8	24	OK Tisaren	SWE	+17:44	Matthias Merz	1:27:22
9	23	IFK Göteborg	SWE	+18:26	Audun Weltzien	1:27:59
10	10	Kalevan Rasti 2	FIN	+19:43	Jan Prochazka	1:28:26
11	11	IL Tyrving	NOR	+19:47	Wojciech Kowalski	1:29:21
12	25	Rajamäen Rykmentti	FIN	+20:16	Vili Niemi	1:29:44
13	36	Frol IL	NOR	+28:12	Jo Forseth Indgaard	1:32:09
14	17	MS Parma	FIN	+28:19	Yury Tambasau	1:32:54
15	16	Järla Orientering	SWE	+28:24	Anders Holmberg	1:27:42