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 ...

The women’s class got very interesting in the final race in the Swedish League chasing start on Sunday. Before the start the task looked impossible for Tove Alexandersson – starting 12 minutes behind leader – Danish Emma Klingenberg – but in the end it got very close. In the men’s ...

This year the Finnish Champs middle distance was a WRE race – open for all foreign runners. The best orienteer in the men’s class was Fredric Portin, Halden SK who was 1 minute and 12 seconds faster than silver medalist Severi Kymäläinen.  Saila Kinni had a tight fight with  Merja Rantanen (Jämsän ...

Belgian orienteer Yannick Michiels ran a strong 5000 meter in 13:47 in IFAM in Oordegem on Saturday. Michiels has inched closer and closer to the top orienteering elite in sprint orienteering the last years – and his strong times on the track indicate that he can take another step this season. Michiels ...

The Norwegian and Swiss national teams are in Scotland preparing for the World Orienteering Championships this week. Saturday they ran the Scottish Championships long distance. The women’s class was won by Norwegian Silje Ekroll Jahren while Swiss Daniel Hubmann won the men’s class. Hollie Orr (Great Britain) was only 2 ...

  Gustav Bergman and Helena Jansson won the tricky and interesting middle distance race in Swedish League in Umeå Saturday.  Gustav Bergman did a technically very stable race and won 13 of 23 legs in the detailed, flat terrain. Jonas Leandersson and Olle Boström finished second and third – both ...

[GPS-tracking Saturday from 11:53 CET – from 11:00 CET Sunday] Gustav Bergman and Emma Klingenberg are in the lead in the high profile race series Swedish League before the decision in Umeå, Sweden this weekend. The last two races of a total of seven races in Swedish League is a middle distance ...