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Heated discussions have errupted after the grouping analysis of the Long Final and Long Qualification published at World of O the last days (see e.g. in the comments section of this article). The present article gives a similar analysis of the EOC Middle Final – again provided by Henning Spjelkavik ...

In the final day of the EOC 2008 Sweden and Russia took home the Gold medals in the Relay. The Swedish team with Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson finished only 12 seconds ahead of the Russian Silver medalists. In the mens class Russia took the gold medal with ...

Gueorgiou is still the King of Middle Distance – and Finland took the Triple in the womens class with Heli Jukkola, Merja Rantanen and Minna Kauppi. A very popular silver medal in the mens class to home runner Martin Sirmais. Bronze in the mens class went to Pasi Ikonen – ...

Matthias Müller (SUI), Valentin Novikov (RUS), Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA), Helena Jansson (SWE), Minna Kauppi (FIN) and Emma Engstrand (SWE) were the heat winners in todays EOC Middle Qualification in Latvia. Again several of the outsiders went out already in the qualification – among them the reigning World Champion over the ...

Would you do the same choices as the best orienteers in Europe? The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Long Final is done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route ...

– The long final yesterday was one of the technically most demanding long distance races I have ever run, Eva Jurenika writes at her homepage. Several of the runners have analyzed their races and written about it in their Blogs. Below many of the statements are collected. Statements Some statements ...

At the EOC Long Final yesterday, runners running together in packs was a big discussion due to the fact that most of the men within the top 10 probably had some use of other runners to keep up the speed and lower their errors. The below analysis of the results ...

– One of the best and most varied Long distance courses I have run. Nice terrain and interesting orienteering all the way, is Mats Troeng’s comment about this years EOC Long Distance Final. Above you see a map extract of the butterfly part of the course. From a spreading point ...

Gold medals went to Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) and Dmitriy Tsvetkov (RUS) in todays EOC over the Long distance. Today Hausken impressed everybody by taking her second Gold medal in this years EOC at the Long Distance in Ventspils, Latvia. Dmitriy Tsvetkov’s Gold medal was a very surprising one – ...

Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) is working hard on replacing Simone Niggli (SUI) as the queen of orienteering – today Hausken took her second Gold medal in this years EOC at the Long Distance in Ventspils, Latvia. Strong finish Hausken secured her second Gold medal at this years EOC through a ...