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 ...
Read More »Scottish Champs: Norway and Switzerland prepare for WOC
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 ...
Read More »Swedish League Middle: Bergman and Jansson
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 ...
Read More »Silva League: Exciting decision with GPS-tracking this weekend
[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 ...
Read More »Sweden selected team for World Cup in Sweden/Norway
David Andersson and Olle Boström are back in the big Swedish team for the World Cup racesi n Norway and Sweden in June. These World Cup races are very important for Sweden. Firstly they are selection races for the World Championships in Scotland later this year – and secondly they ...
Read More »French Champs Middle: Coupat and Chataing
Vincent Coupat and Amelie Chataing won the French Championships middle distance this weekend. While Coupat’s victory was narrow, Chataing won with more than 4 minutes. Several of the top French men were not at the start. According to Coupat’s entry in his Doma-archive, Basset got an injury towards the end ...
Read More »IOF: Proposal to split WOC into urban and forest WOC
IOF is calling an Extraordinary General Assembly during WOC in Scotland in order to discuss a proposal for organising the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) alternating years as a “forest WOC” and a “sprint/urban WOC”. Story at the IOF webpage: Orienteering.org: IOF President calls Extraordinary General Assembly Excerpt: The Extraordinary General Assembly is ...
Read More »Swiss+Austrian Sprint Champs: Wyder and Hertner
Wyder and Hertner were on top when the last Swiss World Cup selection race – the Swiss + Austrian Sprint Champs – was organized in Austria. In the women’s class retired Simone Niggli finished in 2nd place – 11 seconds behind Wyder – with Julia Gross and Silje Ekroll Jahren ...
Read More »LIVE GPS from 11:23 CET: Swedish League Long WRE
[Updated with map] The last of three Swedish WOC selection races is organized in Dalarna today – a tough long distance race which will be interesting to follow with live GPS-tracking and live results. The middle distance on Friday was won by French Thierry Gueorgiou and Danish Emma Klingenberg (photo above) – both ...
Read More »Quick Race analysis: Swedish League Middle Men
Thierry Gueorgiou (Kalevan Rasti) won 26 seconds ahead of Johan Runesson (Göteborg-Majorna OK) with Oleksandr Kratov (OK Orion) in 3rd at 1:18. Thierry Gueorgiou won 4 of 22 legs and did less than a minute of mistakes. As can be observed from the performance index curve below, Gustav Bergman (finished ...
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