Daniel Hubmann decided Jukola 2015 halfways through the last leg after a tight relay where the big three through the last years – Kristiansand, Halden and Kalevan Rasti – had the main roles. Halden’s Magne Dæhlie started first on the last leg – 42 seconds ahead of Kristiansand’s Daniel Hubmann ...
Read More »Double for Domnarvets GoIF with Venla win
[With Interviews] Another top last leg from Emma Johansson secured the Venla victory for Domnarvets GoIF – just like at 10Mila. Johansson started out 1 minute behind Leksands Rahel Friedrich – caught the Swiss national team runner halfways – and was alone in the lead from there to the finish. Many teams ...
Read More »Swiss OLV Baselland aiming for Jukola success
At Jukola 2015 Swiss top runners Fabian Hertner, Kaspar Hägler, Sebastian Hägler, Christoph Meier and Matthias Leonardt along with Swedish Anders Holmberg will this year run for their Swiss club OLV Baselland instead of their Finnish and Swedish clubs. Usually most of the non-Scandinavian runners have been running for their Scandinavian clubs ...
Read More »Jukola 1972: Same terrain as 2015 edition – see the map here
Did you know that Jukola 1972 was organized in the same terrain as this year’s Jukola relay? This year’s map does not resemble the map from 1972, but the courses may have some of the same characteristics although modern maps with more detailed have also introduced shorter legs and more ...
Read More »Jukola 2015: All You Need to Know
22:00 CET (23:00 local time) on Saturday Jukola starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the Jukola and Venla relays. This is the ...
Read More »Jukola Manager: Set up your virtual team & sit down and hope
– In Jukola-Manager you can create your own virtual team and choose your seven runners from hundreds of orienteers, Kimmo Vilska tells in an e-mail. Vilska has set up a Jukola Manager team – above you see some of the most expensive runners. Your team’s performance is based on the ...
Read More »Swiss WOC Team Selected
The Swiss team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in August has been selected. Especially in the men’s class the fight for a place in the team is tough – this year Baptiste Rollier did not make it into the team. Switzerland has gold favourites in all disciplines – ...
Read More »Quick Analysis: Canceled WCup Sprint Women
Emma Klingenberg had the highest speed – especially on the long legs – but Tove Alexandersson ran the best technical race and got the fastest time of the day. Judith Wyder did also a very good race except for two bad routechoices in the second half of the course. Nadiya ...
Read More »Quick Analysis: Canceled WCup Sprint Men
The most interesting legs in the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil were leg 2, the long leg to control 5, leg 6, leg 8, leg 9 and leg 11. For these legs a significant part of the start field chose a slower route than the ideal route – and ...
Read More »Swedish WOC Team selected: – Six medals – two gold
The Swedish team for the World Orienteering Championships has been selected. The goal is 6 medals – of which two gold medals. Source: Orientering.se Damer Tove Alexandersson, Stora Tuna – sprint, medel, stafett, lång Annika Billstam, Linné – medel, stafett, lång Lena Eliasson, Domnarvet – sprintstafett, Sprint Lilian Forsgren, Tisaren ...
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