Two of the major sources for international orienteering news on the Internet – World of O and Ultimate Orienteering – are organizing a poll to name “The Orienteering Achievement of 2008″ and “The Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008″. The winner in each category is decided in a vote amongst all ...

Tricky orienteering over two levels – green control circles identifying the second level and purple circles the first level; that is what met Istanbul 5 Days competitors at the Supersprint on Friday. Istanbul is more known for its Grand Bazar than for its Orienteering – but put the two together, ...

… but Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA) and Dana Brozkova (CZE) are heading the Middle and Long distance rankings, respectively. This is the status for the World of O Ranking at the end of the 2008 season – including the World Cup finals. Kauppi Queen of Olomouc After Anne Margrethe Hausken’s (NOR) ...

Analysis again done by Henning Spjelkavik. The open terrain in Tromsø – along with the technical difficulties at the end made room for quite a few groups in the long distance. Sorry for the format not being ideal for display on the page (due to poor internet connection here it ...

In todays middle distance in the Norwegian Champs middle distanse the Norwegian men did not manage to beat guest runners Thierry Guergiou (FRA) and Daniel Hubmann (SUI) – both finishing in front of the Norwegian Champion Audun Weltzien. Second in the Norwegian Champs was another Swiss runner – Baptiste Rollier ...

Audun Weltzien won a tight Norwegian Champs long distance in Tromsø today performing very good in the last difficult part of the race. Second was Anders Nordberg – third Lars Skjeset. In the womens class Marianne Andersen caught Anne Margrethe Hausken with 2 minutes about 1.5 kilometers before the finish ...

The scenery is fantastic, the sun is shining, and the terrain is said to be wonderful. The first runners have already been heading into the forest. Follow the results live on the Norwegian Champs webpage now Today is the Long Distance. Estimated time of the winners ready is 16.30, although ...

Gueorgiou will be there. Hubmann will be there. Norberg will be there. And Gonon will be there. Thus gold medalists from the middle and long distance at the World Champs in Czech Republic this summer, along with the rest of the medal winners in the mens long distance, are running ...

Minna Kauppi run the fourth best time on the long leg in the womens class at the WOC long distance utilizing a route choice which went outside the map. A small gamble, but it took her from 9th to 5th place… Extract from WOC news number 11: – The women ...

Thierry Gueorgiou describes his nightmare at the WOC Relay in detail in the latest number of WOC News – a story you shouldn’t miss. Our team dream – the WOC relay gold medal – was gone but I started to realise that I was also in danger – I was ...