Orienteering News

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint today at 14:00 CET – follow the race through live results and LiveBlog here! The sprint in JWOC is usually a very open competition – as there is no qualification. Can runners from any of the “smaller orienteering nations” manage to take ...

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint Sunday July 3rd at 14:00 CET – and continues with Long distance on Monday, Middle qualification on Wednesday, Middle final on Thursday and Relay on Friday. Expect a lot of interesting route choices in  the hilly terrain – above you see one ...

Daniel Hubmann and Annika Billstam won the exciting last stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour south of Oslo today. It was a big day for Swiss and Swedish orienteering with 3 Swiss men on top and 3 Swedish women among the top 4. Both Hubmann and Billstam decided the victory ...

With double World Champion Håvard Tveite as one of the course setters – a big fan of real forest orienteering on good maps – everything is set for a very interesting chasing start as the final competition in the Nordic Orienteering Tour. 4 x Switzerland – Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and ...

With 200 World Cup points for the winner and quite easy to pick out the favourites, NORT Stage 3 starting on Saturday 14:00 CET will probably be the stage in this years Fantasy World Cup where you MUST pick out a good team to not loose out in the overall. ...

Lundanes will be chasing four Swiss men in real forest orienteering – only 1:05 behind. Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and Müller are 4 x Switzerland in the lead of the Nordic Orienteering Tour, but probably don’t feel to safe with Lundanes chasing right behind in the final of NORT south of ...

Jerker Lysell and Galina Vinogradova both took their first World Cup victories in the KnockOut sprint which was the second stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour in Göteborg, Sweden today. Both Lysell and Vinogradova must be counted as KnockOut sprint specialists. Their only Top 3 World Cup results are from ...

Welcome to the NORT KnockOut Sprint Betting and LiveBlog. Here you can tip the winner in each of the semifinals and finals – and compete with others in trying to predict the results best. The best way to accompany the webTV broadcast? Betting is open until the start of the ...

[Update: 5 Swiss men and 5 Swedish women in Semi-finals – Semi-finals live from 18:05] From 18:05 CET you can follow the KnockOut sprint Worldwide on webTV – but already at 10:00 CET the qualification starts with a regular sprint race. As for stage 1, the qualification time counts in ...

Small scandal in Finland [Updated with full analysis and map samples]: All teams did not run the same total course in Jukola 2011. The problem occured on the 1st and 2nd leg, where 100 out of 1500 starting teams had wrong forking. The best placed team with wrong forking seems to ...