Orienteering News

With live GPS tracking, webTV/radio and live results this years European Youth Orienteering Championships in France should be a very interesting competition to follow. EYOC is the step before the Junior World Championships were the Gueorgiou’s and Niggli’s of tomorrow get the first opportunity to test themselves against competitors from ...

A tough long distance race with most of the World Elite on place –  just across the road from the WOC 2012 long distance. That was the setting for the WOC selection race long distance for Switzerland, Finland and France Wednesday. Again two Swiss victories: Matthias Merz for the men ...

On the WOC neighbour terrain – with big parts of the world elite on the start – Sara Lüscher and Baptiste Rollier took the victories in the last WOC middle test ahead of the World Championships – which also were Swiss and Finnish WOC selection races. Tomorrow we are ready ...

Jerker Lysell (Sweden) and Simone Niggli (Switzerland) took the victories in today’s World Cup sprint organized in St. Gallen, Switzerland. A very interesting sprint with a lot of route choice options was offered. In the men’s class it was very close to being a fully Swiss day – three Swiss ...

A great day for Switzerland in the World Cup middle distance #4 in Appencell: Matthias Kyburz won the mens class 4 seconds ahead of Olav Lundanes while  Simone Niggli won the womens class ahead of Judith Wyder and Minna Kauppi in a shared 2nd place. The comments about the course ...

St. Gallen in Switzerland is the arena for the last big test ahead of the World Championships for the World Orienteering Elite. The PostFinance Sprint weekend has been moved from the end of the season to June this year. With the World Championships in Switzerland only 3 weeks into the ...

What a Jukola night! Getting through the night without big mistakes was the road to success in this year’s Jukola. A lot of interesting mistakes to study now when the GPS tracking has been released. Only a few of the “highlights” are included in this article – please add a ...

21:30 CET on Saturday the largest Jukola relay ever starts – with 16558 orienteers registered. More than 1600 men head into the forest at 21:30 CET – nearly 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET nearly 1250 women start their relay. Here you find all the information you need about the ...

Extraordinary performance by Simone Niggli – and another great win by Olav Lundanes! No matter if middle distance and long distance – Niggli and Lundanes take the gold medals. Niggli had four(!) minutes down to Tatiana Riabkina in second – Lundanes victory margin was one minute down to Matthias Merz. ...

Simone Niggli (Switzerland) and Olav Lundanes (Norway) took clear victories in today’s middle distance at the European Championships in Skattugnbyn, Sweden. Lundanes won ahead of Valentin Novikov (Russia) and Carl Waaler Kaas (Norway) whereas Tatiana Riabkina (Russia) and Minna Kauppi (Finland) were closest to the Swiss star Niggli. – I ...