With double World Champion Håvard Tveite as one of the course setters – a big fan of real forest orienteering on good maps – everything is set for a very interesting chasing start as the final competition in the Nordic Orienteering Tour. 4 x Switzerland – Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and ...
Read More »WoO Fantasy World Cup: Most decisive stage
With 200 World Cup points for the winner and quite easy to pick out the favourites, NORT Stage 3 starting on Saturday 14:00 CET will probably be the stage in this years Fantasy World Cup where you MUST pick out a good team to not loose out in the overall. ...
Read More »NORT Overall: 4 x Switzerland + Finland
Lundanes will be chasing four Swiss men in real forest orienteering – only 1:05 behind. Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and Müller are 4 x Switzerland in the lead of the Nordic Orienteering Tour, but probably don’t feel to safe with Lundanes chasing right behind in the final of NORT south of ...
Read More »NORT Stage 2: Victory for Lysell and Vinogradova
Jerker Lysell and Galina Vinogradova both took their first World Cup victories in the KnockOut sprint which was the second stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour in Göteborg, Sweden today. Both Lysell and Vinogradova must be counted as KnockOut sprint specialists. Their only Top 3 World Cup results are from ...
Read More »NORT KnockOut Sprint Betting and LiveBlog
Welcome to the NORT KnockOut Sprint Betting and LiveBlog. Here you can tip the winner in each of the semifinals and finals – and compete with others in trying to predict the results best. The best way to accompany the webTV broadcast? Betting is open until the start of the ...
Read More »NORT Stage 2: Live from 18:05 CET – 5 Swiss men and 5 Swedish women
[Update: 5 Swiss men and 5 Swedish women in Semi-finals – Semi-finals live from 18:05] From 18:05 CET you can follow the KnockOut sprint Worldwide on webTV – but already at 10:00 CET the qualification starts with a regular sprint race. As for stage 1, the qualification time counts in ...
Read More »Jukola 2011 Forking Error!
Small scandal in Finland [Updated with full analysis and map samples]: All teams did not run the same total course in Jukola 2011. The problem occured on the 1st and 2nd leg, where 100 out of 1500 starting teams had wrong forking. The best placed team with wrong forking seems to ...
Read More »Jukola 2011 – Decisive moments from the GPS
Thierry Gueorgiou won the first duel for Kalevan Rasti at the long night of Jukola against Anders Nordberg, but Olav Lundanes won the second and more important duel for Halden against Fabian Hertner and Kalevan Rasti. Replay all of the excitement in the LiveBlog at the bottom of this page. ...
Read More »Venla 2011 – Decisive GPS-tracking moments
What a thriller finish! Domnarvets GoIF’s Lena Eliasson took the victory ahead of Tampereen Pyrintö’s Anni-Maija Fincke after being behind for 15 of 17 controls. Everybody had prepared for a Finnish victory when Fincke missed the tricky 16th control and Eliasson could slip by to take the victory. This was ...
Read More »Jukola and Venla: Interactive graphs of race development
Here are some interactive illustrations to see the race development in the Jukola and Venla relays the last years. Taking a look at the Jukola statistics for Kalevan Rasti, we see that even if KR got second last year, it is their largest gap to the winner since 1998. The big ...
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