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The Norwegian Craft Cup sprint had several interesting route choices. Here we present one of them as an O-Route Challenge. Which route would you have chosen? About the O-Route Challenge: The Route to Christmas series has been very popular here at World of O the last years, and there have ...
Read More »Swiss Team having fun with Gueorgiou & VJ commercial
No comments needed. First watch the two commercials for the new VJ shoes – then the Swiss Team video starring Baptiste Rollier. Camera man: Martin Hubmann. Update: Comment from Thierry Gueorgiou: “- I like this one :)” … I guess VJ sends big thanks to the Swiss Team for some ...
Read More »Night-o Route Challenge! Where would you run?
The Norwegian Craft Cup Night and the Swedish Champs night gave the runners some interesting challenges. Where would you choose to run on the first leg? This is O-Route Challenge: Part 3 2011. About the O-Route Challenge: The Route to Christmas series has been very popular here at World of ...
Read More »The fun starts tonight: 2 x GPS tracking from Night-o!
What a night this is going to be for orienteering fans! The GPS tracking season kicks off tonight with both the Swedish Championships in night-orienteering and the replacement race for the Norwegian Championships in night-orienteering (downgraded to Craft Cup due to snow in terrain). And guess what? Both races are with ...
Read More »Garmin Forerunner 610: New favourite GPS watch?
Garmin today released a new Forerunner watch which will probably be the favourite choice for orienteers for o-technical analysis. The 610 will be better than the 405/410/310 XT for o-technical analysis due to reintroduction of the 1-second recording mode. Also the new touchscreen technology seems to be better than the ...
Read More »O-Route Challenge: Part 2 2011
The second part of the O-Route Challenge 2011 takes us to a night-orienteering relay in snow-filled forests in Finland – the Kevätyönviesti Night-O relay in Turku. With 30-50 cm snow in the terrain, this was a tough relay with special considerations to be done when choosing your route. The chosen ...
Read More »MOC Day 3 & SpringCup Relay: Maps and Results
Audun Weltzien and Annika Billstam took the overall MOC victories – whereas Vaajakosken Terä and Halden SK took the victories in the Spring Cup Relay. See maps from all three MOC and Spring Cup days below. At the Mediterranean Open Championship (MOC), Weltzien did three strong races – and won ...
Read More »MOC Day 2 & SpringCup Long: Maps and Results
Olav Lundanes and Signe Søes took the victories on the long distance race at Spring Cup today. Lundanes took the victory two minutes ahead of Francois Gonon with Runesson in third. Søes was two minutes ahead of Maja Alm with Annika Rihma in third. Note also Ida Bobach, winning D19-20E ...
Read More »Ski WOC Long Mass start: Live from 12:00 CET
After a webTV production with great potential from the mixed relay on Thursday, the long distance mass start on the program for the ski-orienteers in Tänndalen, Sweden today. According to the reports there should be live GPS tracking, live web-TV and live results from the race. The start has been ...
Read More »MOC 2011 Day 1: Maps and Results
In a startfield with many strong sprinters, Øystein Kvaal Østerbø won the first stage in MOC 2011 ahead of Audun Weltzien and Daniel Hubmann. In the womens class, Ines Brodmann took the victory ahead of Annika Billstam. The sprint was held in a small towns with many small street – ...
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