Gustav Bergman has struggled with his shape lately, but showed in the Swedish Championships Middle that he can still perform on a top level. With a stable race Bergman took the title 4 seconds ahead of Albin Ridefelt. In the women’s class Helena Jansson had higher speed than the others ...

– The start was tough. I did some mistakes, had bad flow and lost the headlamp a few times, the men’s clear winner Carl Godager Kaas told orientering.no after the race. – But after a while I get good flow in my orienteering and good feedback when I started to ...

Gleb Tikhonov and Maria Keckina won the Russian Championships Long in Perm this weekend. Anastasia Trubkina  and Sergej Detkov won the Long Mass start. Challenging and interesting terrain met the athletes in Perm. The above map sample is from the mass start race. Maps All maps via AndyBary.com. Results Long Note that results are transliterated ...

Helena Jansson and Albin Ridefelt took the victories in the Swedish Championships long which was organized with qualification Saturday and finals Sunday. Jansson crushed the competition – winning more than 7 minutes ahead of reigning World Champion middle distance Annika Billstam. In the men’s class Ridefelt’s victory was also clear ...

[With maps and animation] On a day were many top runners got into trouble, Bjørn Ekeberg and Mari Fasting won the Norwegian Championships Middle. The decision in the men’s race came in a tricky slope at the very end of the course after a very tight fight between Ekeberg and previous middle ...

In the women’s class “retired” Minna Kauppi took a clear victory in the Finnish Championships Long this weekend. In the men’s class Finland’s “New Golden Generation” showed the way – with Gold to Toni Saari (23) ahead of 3 other U23 athletes – and with this year’s Junior World Champion Olli Ojanaho ...

[With maps and results] Sprint stars Yannick Michiels (Belgium) and Galina Vinogradova (Russia) won the first edition of the Antwerp Sprint Orienteering Meeting in Antwerp, Belgium this weekend with strong start fields. The ASOM 2015 event included two sprint races on Saturday in the ‘Luchtbal’ area. On Sunday the elite classes ran an ...

When listening to the participants at the International Orienteering Coaches Conference 2015 in Austria, it is clear that a lot of focus is on one hand to build a development environment where young athletes can develop towards elite level – and on the other hand to build an elite environment which helps elite athletes get World Champions. Representatives of ...

Norway does not have a formalized structure with youth teams, regional training centers or even a dedicated junior national team as most of the other top orienteering nations. Instead Norway’s approach  is to put a lot of focus on helping the clubs building a training environment in which future World Champions ...

Instead of following the successful approach of Thierry Gueorgiou, Francois Gonon and Philippe Adamski which has brought France a lot of success throughout the years, the “new” generation of French runners use a somewhat different approach according to French coach Charly Boichut at the International Orienteering  Coach Conference in Faak am See, Austria this is not ...