This evening the traditional international season opening in Denmark – Spring Cup – starts with a night orienteering relay and night orienteering race. Although other events have taken over part of Spring Cups role as the place where all the best meet at the start of the season, there is ...
Read More »Top O-Travel Picks: May 2010
It is time to plan some orienteering adventures for May! Ostsee Orienteering in Germany, Baltic Cup in Poland, Asian Orienteering Championships in Japan and Hungarian 24 hour orienteering relay are some of the choices you have. And of course there is the European Champs in Bulgaria in the end of ...
Read More »MOC 2010 Day 2: Maps and Results
Surprise victory for JWOC-champion Matthias Kyburz in the mens class in MOC 2010 – Helena Jansson took the overall victory among the women. The big favorite in the mens class – Daniel Hubmann – did a five minute mistake which cost him all possibilities for an overall victory. The second ...
Read More »MOC 2010 Day 1: Maps
Daniel Hubmann took the victory ahead of his brother Martin Hubmann in the mens class – while Simone Niggli won ahead of Helena Jansson in the womens class in todays night sprint which at MOC. The first day of MOC consisted of a prologue in the morning and a night ...
Read More »MOC 2010: Preview
Daniel Hubmann, Peter Öberg, Simone Niggli, Minna Kauppi and Helena Jansson are some of the big stars on the startlist for the Mediterranean Open Championships (MOC) in southern Italy – the second competition series this year with a good elite startfield. MOC starts on Friday February 26th with a sprint ...
Read More »Weekly poll: SportIdent and DSQ due to missing registration
Do you think the IOF-rules should be changed so that base station must be checked if written protest? There have been fierce discussion about the topic after the World Cup and EOC in Ski-Orienteering in Bulgaria/Romania. A team was disqualified from a Gold medal in the mixed relay, but the ...
Read More »Dead running – separating method for the future?
Dead running is probably the separation method which has best potential for spreading runners without the course planner needing to make significant compromises (except for increased start interval). For all other known spreading methods, the course maker must change the course layout – i.e. the butterflies, phi-loops or the other ...
Read More »Portugal O-Meeting Day 3: Map and Results
Scott Fraser and Helena Jansson won Day 3 of Portugal O-Meeting on a day where not all of the top runners gave their best. In second spot Fabian Hertner and Simone Niggli. The Portuguese where very happy with 8th place for Portuguese Diogo Miguel on homeground. Daniel Hubmann mispunched on ...
Read More »Portugal O-Meeting: Gueorgiou and Niggli on top
[Updated with map] Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli are on top of the results list after the World Ranking event over middle distance in the big season opening in Portugal O-Meeting 2010. At yesterday’s long distance (which was not a World Ranking event) Daniel Hubmann and Helena Jansson were on ...
Read More »StreetView + Orienteering Map = Cool!
Coupling Google StreetView with an orienteering map in split view turned out pretty cool. You can click any point on the orienteering map for which there is StreetView available, and see how it looks in real life. The other way around, you can use your cursor keys or mouse and ...
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