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Veterans Hans Gunnar Omdal and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg are part of the Norwegian team for the World Championships in Scotland which was selected earlier this week. No Norwegian athlete will run all disciplines – and only one athlete, Anne Margrethe Hausken (photo above from WOC 2009), will run both urban ...

– More tricky than it looks from the map, was the informations the athletes got before the JWOC middle qualification. But the courses look quite tricky even on the map – especially the first part which follows a slope with many diffuse marshes and light green areas. Maps JWOC Middle ...

[With GPS analysis & maps] A tough long distance with many long routechoice legs met the athletes in the last of the Norwegian WOC selection races. 1 hour and 40 minutes for the men – 1 hour and 24 minutes for the women. The long distance race in Høydalsmo was also ...

Elise Egseth won a clear victory in the Norwegian WOC test race sprint Thursday – 34 seconds ahead of Silje Ekroll Jahren. The winner on Wednesday’s Middle distance, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg, finished 4th, 38 seconds behind Egseth. Egseth is now working full time and had not expected to reach ...

Former French national team member Francois Gonon won the European Vertical Championships in Chamonix last week with a new course record – finishing the course with 1000 meter climb in 34:07. Francois Gonon (photo above is from WOC 2012) finished his international orienteering career after the WOC relay bronze medal with ...

One week before the Junior World Orienteering Championships starts in Rauland, Norway, some of the best youth and junior orienteers in Europe met for the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Romania. EYOC is open for competitiors from 15 to 18 years, and competition is done in 15-16 and 17-18 ...

Six men and six women have been selected for the Czech team for the World Championships in Scotland after interesting selection races last week. Analysis and maps For interesting GPS-analysis of the selection races (Czech text, but nice illustrations): Women long Men middle       Women Vendula Horčičková (Slovan ...

A fantastic atmosphere – and runners on all levels enjoying orienteering day and night. That’s Jukola – and Puresive Films manages to show it in a great way in this video. Enjoy & share!

[Live on SVT Play, Worldwide, Tuesday 11:00 CET] Jerker Lysell showed in his “comeback” in Sunday’s qualification that he might very well be ready to fight for medals at the World Championships in Scotland, even if he has barely been running at all this season. The Swedish Championships Sprint Relay (Monday) ...

Dana Safka Brozkova won the Czech Championships middle distance ahead of Jana Knapova in her comeback season – just after being an important part of the winning Domnarvets team at Jukola. Vojtech Kral won the men’s race ahead of Jan Sedivy. Baptiste Rollier (Switzerland) – participated and finish 4th, 27 ...