Sweden (Men) and Switzerland (Women) won the relay events as the first World Cup round of 2025 concluded in Idre Fjäll, Sweden – the last test ahead of the World Orienteering Championships in Finland in a few weeks’ time. Switzerland (Paula Gross, Natalia Gemperle, Simona Aebersold) won ahead of Norway ...
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Swedish success in tricky World Cup Midde distance in Idre Fjäll: Max Peter Bejmer and Tove Alexandersson won the World Cup Middle distance on home ground in the Swedish mountains in a race where we saw a lot of big mistakes by top runners. Bejmer won ahead of three (!) other Swedish runners – ...
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The two big favourites – Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) – won the World Cup Long distance race in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Both won with a big margin – Fosser by 4:04 ahead of Matthias Kyburz (SUI), while Alexandersson took the women’s race with a 3:12 margin ...
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The 2025 Orienteering World Cup season starts off in Swedish Idre Fjäll on Wednesday June 18th with a shortened long distance Qualification race. The action continues with three TV-broadcast forest races from Thursday to Sunday: Long Thursday, Middle Saturday and Relay Sunday. Idre Fjäll offered great races with tricky orienteering when the ...
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Today we offer a bonus leg in Route to Christmas 2024 – a second leg from the World Cup Final long race. This course was already featured on Day 19 – but the leg to control 13 was interesting enough to make a bonus leg. Especially with this being the area for next year’s ...
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Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 7000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2024″! To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make ...
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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Finnish Championships long distance. This course is one of the Top 10-finishers in Course of the Year 2024. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about ...
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The “Orienteering Course of the Year 2024″ is a very technical and fast middle distance course in Spain: The Men Superelite course at stage 2 of the Maximus O Meeting 2024! The course offered technical orienteering at high speed – testing a variety of skills. The terrain – never used for orienteering before – looks like a dream for a ...
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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from the long distance race Langløpet, organized this November in the Oslo-area. Thanks a lot to Arild Andersen for the tip! This was a mass start event with some big stars on the start line – including Kasper Fosser and the Norwegian Junior ...
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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a quite short leg from the middle distance of the Maximus O Meeting in Spain, organized this February. Here is the terrain description from the bulletin: This terrain offers a fascinating mix of pine and oak forests, enabling high running speeds while demanding ...
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