Summer-O 2016: Swiss O-Week

Jan Kocbach July 25, 2016 MiniNews 5 Comments

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Swiss O-Week, organized every second/third year in Switzerland. Swiss O-Week was organized in St. Moritz in Engadin this year – and the runners met a combination of interesting orienteering and fantastic scenery.

Most of the Swiss top runners were participating – but most took it easy on some of the stages. Also many other top runners took the opportunity to combine competitions and trainings in the Swiss alps. Overall winners in the elite classes were Baptiste Rollier and Sabine Hauswirth. The orienteering technical challenges were varied – one of the routechoice legs in the men elite class is shown below.

The next edition of Swiss O-Week will be organized in Gstaad in 2019.

The Summer-O 2016 series

About the Summer-O 2016 series: Traveling to new places and experience orienteering in new terrain is one of the highlights of the summer holidays for many orienteers – both orienteers on high level and hobby orienteers. The “Summer-O 2016″ series takes a quick look at some of the summer orienteering races of 2016. Sometimes it may just be a map with a course, sometimes several maps, sometimes results, sometimes comments, sometimes GPS-tracking or animations.

Selected Videos

See more videos here.

Maps

See below for some maps/GPS-tracking from Swiss O-Week 2016. See also more maps from the event.

Location

[pw_map zoom=”10″ address=”46.487,9.8383″]

Links

Links:

Selected Results

See overall results here.

Men Elite

Rank	Name	Time
1	Baptiste Rollier	06:12:03
2	Kaspar Hägler	06:29:44
3	Marc Lauenstein	06:35:42
4	Ueli Werren	06:39:53
5	Andreas Rüedlinger	06:42:06
6	Remo Ruch	06:47:22
7	Jere Pajunen	06:54:04
8	Flavio Poltéra	06:56:21
9	Sebastian Inderst	06:58:09
10	Sven Aschwanden	07:06:40

Women Elite

1	Sabine Hauswirth	05:18:35
2	Isabelle Feer	05:46:30
3	Regula Hulliger	05:51:30
4	Sandrine Müller	05:55:00
5	Anina Brunner	06:15:45
6	Andrea Roggo	06:16:03
6	Katja Gygax	06:16:03
8	Sophie Tritschler	06:18:47
9	Marie Prochazkova	06:26:12
10	Monika Topinkova	06:27:30

5 comments

Ruedi Lais
July 25, 2016 at 16:04

The Swiss-O-Week takes place every 3rd and not every other year. Therefore next time 2019 in Gstaad. Greetings, Ruedi from Switzerland
- SwissRunner
  July 25, 2016 at 19:47
  
  Not entirely correct. The Swiss-O-Week takes place in an irregular cylce. Two years ago (2014) in Zermatt, five years ago (2011) in Laax and in three years time in Gstaad.
  - Jan Kocbach
    July 26, 2016 at 1:55
    
    Thanks Ruedi & SwissRunner. Obviously an easy mistake to do, I’ll correct the article!
Noah Bühlmann
July 25, 2016 at 19:50

Hey Jan
Clean and detailed maps from all stages and courses can be found in the RouteGadget of the Swiss Orienteering federation:
http://routegadget.ch/binperl/reitti.cgi

Greetings from Switzerland
- Jan Kocbach
  July 26, 2016 at 1:56
  
  Thanks! I’ll add the link!