– Last year three Danish Orienteers came and stayed here in Melbourne and helped run training, coaching and mapping. This year we have made a formal program and can offer two scholarships worth $2500 and accommodation through our lovely summer months, David Jaffe, Vice President Orienteering Victoria says in an e-mail. ...

Is it OK to fork men against women in a Mixed Sprint Relay? At the Norwegian Championships sprint this weekend the answer was obviously yes. The first leg for both men and women with the four forking controls are shown above. To make it extra tricky from a fairness point ...

[Note! Arena production on webTV Saturday/Sunday] Orienteering World Cup Round 2 heads off with a Long distance race south of Halden (old map above) on Wednesday followed by a Mixed Sprint Relay at Fredriksten fortress in Halden on Friday and Sprint and Middle distance in Lysekil/Munkedal, Sweden in the weekend. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) ...

[Updated with GPS-tracking link] Kristian Jones (Great Britain) beat reigning World Champion Søren Bobach (Denmark) with one second in the Danish championships sprint – topping the results in the World Ranking event. As Jones is not entitled to become Danish Champion, Bobach won the gold medal. In the women’s class Søren’s ...

A day for the veterans in Norway: Swedish Emil Wingstedt (40) won the Norwegian Championships sprint in the men’s class ahead of another Swede – Mattias Karlsson. The women’s class was won by Anne Margrethe Hausken (39). Hausken won ahead of Elise Egseth, who has not been competing the last years, ...

A four minute mistake in a green area cost Edgars Bertuks (Latvia) the chance to win the Baltic Champs Long distance in the men’s class – in the end finishing in 4th – 3:51 behind winner Jonas Vytautas Gvildys (Lithuania). Gvildys won the race 1:13 ahead of Latvian Rudolfs Zernis. Bertuks ...

Interesting terrain and tough fights for places in the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland – that is what the Russian Championships 2015 offered. Last weekend the sprint championships (traditional sprint and mass start sprint) were organized – the two last days the individual forest disciplines (long and middle mass start) were ...

The World Orienteering Championships in August is getting closer – the organizers have now released Bulletin 3. The long distance will feature 15.2 km of running with 635 meter climb for the men (95-100 minutes) and 9.8 km with 420 meter climb for the women (75 minutes).  Note that again ...

Orienteering maps have changed a lot the last 10-15 years – especially in very detailed areas with more detailed base maps and LIDAR data available. Remo Ruch has posted a very interesting example to the Facebook-group “Orienteering Mappers Int.”. On “Orienteering Mappers International” Ruch showcases the development of the Chapelle de ...

The 9th and 11th control decided a very tight fight between the Sild brothers in the Estonian championships middle distance in a technical, marshy terrain. Evely Kaasiku decided the women’s class.  Both Lauri and Timo ran technical good races, but a Lauri took the initiative after a small direction mistake ...