Jukola 2015: All You Need to Know

Jan Kocbach June 12, 2015 Orienteering News Comments Off on Jukola 2015: All You Need to Know

22:00 CET (23:00 local time) 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. This is the 67th edition of the Jukola relay and the 38th edition of the Venla relay.

Jukola 2015 is organized in Paimio, close to Turku. The Jukola Relay 1972 was held on the terrain area. Part of the area was used for Fin5 orienteering week in 1997.

Live TV/results/tracking/startlists

Live TV feed: Via IOF LiveCenter with English commentary (see article with links and information here)
Live results
There is GPS Tracking on all legs. 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, as usually.
Startlists: Jukola – Venla (see also statistics by country)- startlists will be public for all teams Friday at 6 pm (local time) via the Jukola webpage
Jukola webpage and competition information

WorldofO Live coverage

WorldofO.com will have a limited live coverage via the WorldofOLive Twitter account during Jukola.

Follow Jukola 2014 at @WorldofOLive Twitter account

Interesting articles

The Jukola webpage has several interesting English-language articles in preparation for the Jukola relay. Some of them:

Interview with Kalevan Rasti coach about how KR prepares for Jukola. – We examine old maps and speculate about the courses. Usually we’ve succeeded well with this and haven’t faced any surprises in the race itself. However, most important in preparation in the mental side.
Will a Swedish Team win Jukola again? 23 years since last time – The [IFK Göteborg] coach, former national team member Fredrik Löwegren regards controlling the rhythm changes as a key factor in Jukola. […] Already the three first legs are decisive, since in Jukola it’s very difficult to come back to the race from further behind like often in Tiomila.
Discussion on favourites in the men’s class. – The number one challenger from many years back, the Norwegian Halden SK is racing without their star Olav Lundanes who’s still recovering from slight overtraining. On the other hand, substituting Olav is e.g. the Finnish national team “cannon” Fredric Portin, who represented the Jukola host Paimion Rasti just on last season.
Discussion on favourites in the women’s class. – The recent Tiomila victor Domnarvet has twice taken also the Venla challenge trophy home. National team stars Emma Johansson and Lena Eliasson are a strong frame for the team. According to coach Peter Löfås, the Venla relay is often a bit difficult race for Swedish teams. The terrain looks challenging, and margins are small so one mistake might be all it takes to make a difference.

Map and terrain

Two different renderings of the Jukola area from LIDAR data are available: One version made by one version made by Terje Mathisen (top of page) – and one version made by Jarkko Ryppöö (above this paragraph).

The area consists mainly of bare-rock terrain typical of southwestern Finland. Runnability is above the average. In addition to bare-rock hills, predominant terrain types are heath forest and a rather extensive, overgrown sandpit area including ponds. Some marsh areas also exist. In some parts of the area there are plenty of logging areas and different-aged planted forest that slow running. The relief is moderate. Take caution on the steepest slopes! The highest and most dangerous cliffs are cordoned off from above with a white and/or red-and-white tape with text ”Jukolan viesti – STOP”.

Search for maps in omaps.worldofo.com close to the competition area
Browse all old Jukola maps in omaps.worldofo.com
See also an old article about forking in Jukola relays (via o-training.net)

Venla relay

Leg length (km)	Climb (m)	Estimated time (min)	Changeover / finish time
1	8.0	130	51	14:51
2	5.9–6.0	75	40	15:31
3	6.2	70	41	16:12
4	8.8–8.9	160	59	17:11
Total	29.0	435	3 h 11 min

Times are local times. There is forking on all legs.

Top teams last year:

1	1	OK Pan Århus			DEN	2:56:41
		1 Emma Klingenberg				37:48	19.
		2 Signe Söes	34:08	1.		1:11:56	1.
		3 Maja Alm	51:00	3.		2:02:56	1.
		4 Ida Bobach	53:45	1.		2:56:41	1.
2	11	Tampereen Pyrintö			FIN	3:00:33
		1 Anni-Maija Fincke				36:59	2.
		2 Riina Kuuselo	35:55	5.		1:12:54	4.
		3 Venla Niemi	52:46	5.		2:05:40	3.
		4 Saila Kinni	54:53	5.		3:00:33	2.
3	3	OK Linne			SWE	3:01:33
		1 Rebecka Olsson				40:15	52.
		2 Inga Kazlauskaite	38:41	39.		1:18:56	38.
		3 Cathrine Taylor	48:34	1.		2:07:30	7.
		4 Annika Billstam	54:03	3.		3:01:33	3.

4	SK Pohjantähti (20)	+6:16	Sofia Haajanen	55:43
5	OK Tisaren (8)	+6:24	Simone Niggli	56:03
6	Halden SK (2)	+7:04	Mari Fasting	53:50
7	Kalevan Rasti (6)	+8:36	Sara Luscher	55:52
8	Järla Orientering (15)	+8:42	Karolin Ohlsson	57:21
9	IFK Lidingö SOK (4)	+9:02	Annica Gustafsson	58:33
10	Paimion Rasti (10)	+9:07	Inga Dambe	1:00:12
11	MS Parma (9)	+12:43	Anastasia Tikhonova	57:58
12	OK Hällen (18)	+12:46	Linnea Gustafsson	59:27
13	IGTISA (14)	+13:06	Irina Nyberg	59:56
14	Sävedalens AIK (26)	+14:44	Anastasia Denisova	1:00:38
15	IFK Lidingö SOK 2 (58)	+14:48	Adela Indrakova	59:57
16	Kangasala SK (19)	+17:41	Iveta Duchova	58:37
17	OK Orion (219)	+17:55	Nadiya Volynska	58:48
18	IFK Göteborg (94)	+18:50	Kirsi Nurmi	1:05:39
19	Tampereen Pyrintö 2 (41)	+18:53	Heidi Haapasalo	1:00:14
20	IFK Moras OK (16)	+19:11	Olga Panchenko	1:01:57

Results from previous year

Jukola relay

1	13.8–13.9	365	dusk/dark	80	0:20
2	12.3–12.4	285	dark	73	1:33
3	15.7–15.8	405	dark/dusk	94	3:07
4	8.1–8.2	205	dusk/light	45	3:52
5	8.5–8.6	215	light	46	4:38
6	12.6–12.7	320	light	70	5:48
7	14.5–14.6	355	light	79	7:07
Total	85.9	2,150		8 h 7 min

Times are local times. There is forking on all legs.

Top teams last year:

1	1	Kalevan Rasti			FIN	7:59:01
		1 Jere Pajunen				1:10:21	20.
		2 Philippe Adamski	1:16:44	3.		2:27:05	1.
		3 Aaro Asikainen	1:15:03	41.		3:42:08	10.
		4 Hannu Airila	53:26	8.		4:35:34	6.
		5 Simo-Pekka Fincke	51:18	7.		5:26:52	6.
		6 Fabian Hertner	1:08:03	2.		6:34:55	3.
		7 Thierry Gueorgiou	1:24:06	1.		7:59:01	1.
2	16	IFK Lidingö SOK			SWE	7:59:12
		1 Jo Forseth Indgaard				1:08:12	2.
		2 Anders Carlsson	1:21:04	30.		2:29:16	8.
		3 Filip Dahlgren	1:09:45	10.		3:39:01	3.
		4 Erik Ivarsson Sandberg	51:35	1.		4:30:36	1.
		5 Öystein Kvaal Österbö	50:30	4.		5:21:06	1.
		6 Mårten Boström	1:11:07	10.		6:32:13	1.
		7 Fredrik Johansson	1:26:59	2.		7:59:12	2.
3	13	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter			SWE	8:02:50
		1 Ralph Street				1:09:18	4.
		2 Kent Ohlsson	1:17:52	10.		2:27:10	5.
		3 Erik Liljeqvist	1:10:17	14.		3:37:27	1.
		4 Bartosz Pawlak	55:54	32.		4:33:21	4.
		5 Scott Fraser	48:49	1.		5:22:10	2.
		6 Eric Börjeskog	1:10:04	8.		6:32:14	2.
		7 Jonas Leandersson	1:30:36	5.		8:02:50	3.

4	Halden SK (4)	+7:19	Olav Lundanes	1:30:01
5	Vaajakosken Terä (7)	+8:23	Pasi Ikonen	1:30:55
6	Hiidenkiertäjät (3)	+10:53	Valentin Novikov	1:33:58
7	Järla Orientering (9)	+15:57	Mattias Millinger	1:38:28
8	Malungs OK Skogsmårdarna (14)	+17:55	William Lind	1:31:49
9	Kristiansand OK (2)	+18:28	Daniel Hubmann	1:34:32
10	Ärla IF (22)	+19:54	Karl Walheim	1:31:49
11	IFK Moras OK (12)	+21:00	Artem Panchenko	1:37:06
12	Paimion Rasti (38)	+22:06	Frederic Tranchand	1:34:35
13	NTNUI (23)	+27:09	Thomas Natvig Årstad	1:36:32
14	OK Linne (17)	+28:13	Oskar Sjöberg	1:32:41
15	Vehkalahden Veikot (15)	+28:16	Marc Lauenstein	1:37:38
16	Rajamäen Rykmentti (18)	+28:20	Vili Niemi	1:37:00
17	Stora Tuna OK (20)	+28:22	Emil Svensk	1:38:34
18	OK Orion (51)	+29:53	Oleksandr Kratov	1:31:53
19	Lillomarka OL (25)	+30:11	Gaute Hallan Steiwer	1:34:54
20	Vaajakosken Terä 2 (39)	+32:03	Juha Sorvisto	1:44:15