Jukola 2019: All You Need To Know!

Jan Kocbach June 14, 2019 Orienteering News 5 Comments

Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world is even larger this year – 21.500 is a record number of competitors for the men’s relay Jukola and the women’s relay Venla! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay. Here you find all the information you need about the Jukola and Venla relays. This is the 71st edition of the Jukola relay and the 42nd edition of the Venla relay.

Jukola 2019 is organized close to Tampere – and there will again be a high quality international webTV-broadcast available from both the Jukola and Venla relays (Euro 18.-). Live stream footage is offered in English, including high quality GPS service and experienced sportscasters. You can also view realtime results and watch interviews with top athletes.

2018: Koovee & Stora Tuna

A look in the back-mirror to the 2018 edition: Oleksandr Kratov took Koovee from a 12th place at +5:46 to a 1:18 lead on the 4th leg – beating IFK Göteborg’s runner with 7 minutes. Kenny Kivikas increased the lead to more than 3 minutes on the 5th leg – and Timo Sild managed to keep a big enough lead on the 6th leg for Daniel Hubmann to run out alone – and decide the race in another battle for a relay victory with IFK Göteborg’s Eskil Kinneberg. In the end IFK Göteborg finished as the second best team 4 minutes behind Koovee, with Paimion Rasti in third after a good last leg by Olav Lundanes.

Stora Tuna won the 2018 Venla relay ahead of Göteborg Majorna and MS Parma after a very strong last leg by Tove Alexandersson. Alexandersson was nearly 5 minutes faster than her competitors on the last leg – catching 3 minutes on the leaders already halfways and from there only speeding away.

Live TV/results/tracking/startlists

Live TV feed: Buy access for Euro 18 here.
Live results
There is GPS Tracking on all legs (teams for GPS-tracking). 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 for Jukola and Venla. Running order will be public for all teams Friday at 6 pm (local time)
Jukola webpage and competition information

WorldofO Live coverage

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

Follow Jukola 2019 at @Worldofo Twitter account

Map and terrain

The Kangasala-Jukola competition terrain is variable backwoods where altitude difference between the lowest and highest point is about 80 meters. There are only few trails by human tramping but, due to logging and forestry, machine made ruts are seen broadly. The runability of the terrain varies a lot. Trees are mostly young resulting in limited visibility.

Here is a route choice leg on the Ponsa-terrain from the Jukola-organizers to get you prepared for the tasks ahead:

Browse 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	Climb	Time	Changeover
1.	5.8 – 5.9 km	140 m	40 min	14:40
2.	5.5 – 5.7 km	130 m	37 min	15:17
3.	7.1 – 7.3 km	150 m	50 min	16:07
4.	7.8 – 7.9 km	160 m	53 min
Total	26.8 km	580 m	3 h 00 min

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

Top teams last year (see full results):

1	3	Stora Tuna OK			SWE	2:37:32
		1 Anna Mårsell				39:56	7.
		2 Magdalena Olsson	40:22	23.		1:20:19	8.
		3 Julia Jakob	32:06	6.		1:52:25	6.
		4 Tove Alexandersson	45:07	1.		2:37:32	1.
2	13	Göteborg Majorna OK			SWE	2:42:18
		1 Lisa Holer				40:43	33.
		2 Anna Forsberg	40:52	30.		1:21:35	13.
		3 Lina Strand	30:51	3.		1:52:26	7.
		4 Judith Wyder	49:51	2.		2:42:18	2.
3	9	MS Parma			FIN	2:42:42
		1 Anastasia Rudnaya				38:34	3.
		2 Tiia Istolahti	40:06	17.		1:18:40	1.
		3 Tuulia Viberg	31:10	4.		1:49:50	3.
		4 Maija Sianoja	52:51	8.		2:42:42	3.
4	16	Järla Orientering			SWE	2:44:07
		1 Emma Klingenberg				40:13	19.
		2 Sofie Bachmann	38:49	4.		1:19:02	4.
		3 Elin Hemmyr-Skantze	32:57	11.		1:52:00	5.
		4 Karolin Ohlsson	52:06	7.		2:44:07	4.
5	1	Alfta ÖSA OK			SWE	2:44:12
		1 Galina Vinogradova				38:20	2.
		2 Josefine Heikka	40:24	25.		1:18:45	2.
		3 Sara Eskilsson	34:32	18.		1:53:18	10.
		4 Natalia Gemperle	50:54	6.		2:44:12	5.
6	2	Ol Norska			SUI	2:44:41
		1 Sarina Jenzer				39:59	11.
		2 Silje Ekroll Jahren	39:42	13.		1:19:42	6.
		3 Simone Niggli	29:40	2.		1:49:23	1.
		4 Sabine Hauswirth	55:18	23.		2:44:41	6.

Jukola relay

Leg	Length	Climb	Time	Changeover
1.	10.7 – 10.8 km dusk/dark	280 m	69 min	00:09
2.	10.3 – 10.5 km dark	290 m	70 min	01:19
3.	13.1 – 13.2 km dark/dusk	340 m	87 min	02:46
4.	7.2 – 7.3 km dawn/daylight	210 m	47 min	03:33
5.	7.7 – 7.8 km daylight	230 m	48 min	04:21
6.	11.0 -11.1 km daylight	330 m	68 min	05:29
7.	12.8 – 12.9 km daylight	350 m	77 min
Total	73.7 km	2030 m	7 h 46 min

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

Top teams last year (full results):

1	2	Koovee			FIN	7:27:18
		1 Joni Hirvikallio				1:04:36	15.
		2 Topi Anjala	1:10:00	14.		2:14:36	6.
		3 Lauri Sild	1:14:07	18.		3:28:43	12.
		4 Oleksandr Kratov	50:11	1.		4:18:55	1.
		5 Kenny Kivikas	48:45	6.		5:07:40	1.
		6 Timo Sild	59:41	8.		6:07:22	1.
		7 Daniel Hubmann	1:19:56	3.		7:27:18	1.
2	1	IFK Göteborg			SWE	7:31:57
		1 Max Peter Bejmer				1:03:49	3.
		2 Johan Högstrand	1:08:57	6.		2:12:47	1.
		3 Vetle Ruud Bråten	1:10:10	4.		3:22:57	1.
		4 Jonas Pilblad	57:17	18.		4:20:14	2.
		5 Jens Wängdahl	50:41	12.		5:10:55	2.
		6 Fredrik Bakkman	57:16	3.		6:08:12	2.
		7 Eskil Kinneberg	1:23:45	10.		7:31:57	2.
3	7	Paimion Rasti			FIN	7:35:56
		1 Daniel Stenlund				1:06:08	50.
		2 Jesse Laukkarinen	1:17:42	94.		2:23:50	71.
		3 Fredric Portin	1:12:30	9.		3:36:21	20.
		4 Vili Niemi	55:37	6.		4:31:59	13.
		5 Bartosz Pawlak	49:02	7.		5:21:01	7.
		6 Frédéric Tranchand	55:56	2.		6:16:57	3.
		7 Olav Lundanes	1:18:58	1.		7:35:56	3.
4	5	Halden SK			NOR	7:39:34
		1 Andreas Rüedlinger				1:04:58	25.
		2 Emil Wingstedt	1:09:39	10.		2:14:38	8.
		3 Thomas Natvig Årstad	1:11:42	7.		3:26:20	5.
		4 Mats Nordbröden	57:37	21.		4:23:57	5.
		5 Alexander Chepelin	52:08	19.		5:16:05	4.
		6 Riccardo Scalet	1:04:03	27.		6:20:08	8.
		7 Magne Dähli	1:19:25	2.		7:39:34	4.
5	4	Södertälje Nykvarn Orienter			SWE	7:40:00
		1 Ralph Street				1:03:45	2.
		2 Kent Ohlsson	1:10:28	18.		2:14:14	2.
		3 Håkon Jarvis Westergård	1:13:10	11.		3:27:24	8.
		4 Ivar Lundanes	59:11	35.		4:26:36	8.
		5 Jakob Enmark	51:58	16.		5:18:34	6.
		6 Eric Börjekskog	1:00:06	11.		6:18:40	4.
		7 Jonas Leandersson	1:21:20	5.		7:40:00	5.
6	36	Kalevan Rasti			FIN	7:43:50
		1 Jan Prochazka				1:04:44	18.
		2 Markus Räsänen	1:09:52	13.		2:14:36	6.
		3 Lauri Nenonen	1:11:45	8.		3:26:22	6.
		4 Philippe Adamski	1:07:30	127.		4:33:52	20.
		5 Jan Petrzela	48:21	3.		5:22:14	10.
		6 Hannu Airila	59:42	9.		6:21:56	10.
		7 Miika Kirmula	1:21:54	8.		7:43:50	6.

Take a look at some old Jukola videos to get you in the Jukola mood.

5 comments

Knut Wiig Mathisen
June 14, 2019 at 7:32

Thanks for giving us “all you need to know” articles. Appreciated. Small typo in the resume of last years Jukola. Timo Sild was running leg six for Koovee.
- Jan Kocbach
  June 14, 2019 at 9:40
  
  Thanks for your comment, very nice that somebody tells me about typos. And thanks for the praise:)
MB
June 14, 2019 at 9:29

Hi Jan or anyonelse
I was looking for the replay of the live tv of Jukola 2018 but I can”t find it. Do you know if it is available somewhere?
Thanks
- Jan Kocbach
  June 14, 2019 at 9:41
  
  MB: Actually I don’t think it is available like it is for 10mila, at least I have not found it. Somebody else aware of this?
  - Jone
    June 14, 2019 at 14:04
    
    Here are some _short_ clips from last years race:
    – https://areena.yle.fi/1-50003791
    – https://areena.yle.fi/1-50003795