Orienteering News

Thierry Gueorgiou won the first duel for Kalevan Rasti at the long night of Jukola against Anders Nordberg, but Olav Lundanes won the second and more important duel for Halden against Fabian Hertner and Kalevan Rasti. Replay all of the excitement in the LiveBlog at the bottom of this page. ...

What a thriller finish! Domnarvets GoIF’s Lena Eliasson took the victory ahead of Tampereen Pyrintö’s Anni-Maija Fincke after being behind for 15 of 17 controls. Everybody had prepared for a Finnish victory when Fincke missed the tricky 16th control and Eliasson could slip by to take the victory. This was ...

Here are some interactive illustrations to see the race development in the Jukola and Venla relays the last years. Taking a look at the Jukola statistics for Kalevan Rasti, we see that even if KR got second last year, it is their largest gap to the winner since 1998. The big ...

– Looking forward to my battle with the night legend, are the words of the King of Middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – before the battle against Anders Nordberg at tonights long night leg of Jukola – the third leg. The 3rd leg is set to start at 00:11 CET ...

21:55 CET on Saturday more than 1500 men head into the forest – nearly 9 hours earlier at 14:10 CET nearly 1100 women start their relay. The Jukola relay is the highlight of the season for many runners – here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola ...

[Updated with Final results and maps] Swiss domination among the men – Swedish among the women. Five Swiss men in the top of NORT Stage 1 – with young Matthias Kyburz on the top! Three Swedish women on top – Linnea Gustafsson taking the victory. In the mens class,  Merz ...

[Updated with maps!] Follow live GPS tracking from the qualification (08:00) and live GPS tracking and live TV from the final (15:00) from stage 1 of the Nordic Orienteering Tour today! The Nordic Orienteering Tours (NORT) marks the first part of the 2011 World Cup, and with 300 World Cup ...

3 stages – 3 countries – 9 days. Already the qualification Thursday morning will be very important for the overall results – a 30-35 minute “prolonged sprint” with the race time counting in the overall results – part of the terrain being described as rather hilly and physically demanding “offering ...

New year – new rules – more fun! The World Cup starts the following Thursday at the Nordic Orienteering Tour, and it is now time to set up your own Team of Elite Runners, and follow them through this years World Cup. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ ...

3DRerun: Orienteering Analysis the Fun way. And cool visualization! And a lot more than that as well! After more than a year of development 3DRerun is now open for YOU to use! Thanks to elite orienteers, national teams and others who have given valuable feedback, 3DRerun has now entered open ...