Orienteering News

The Norwegian Craft Cup Night and the Swedish Champs night gave the runners some interesting challenges. Where would you choose to run on the first leg? This is O-Route Challenge: Part 3 2011. About the O-Route Challenge: The Route to Christmas series has been very popular here at World of ...

What a night this is going to be for orienteering fans! The GPS tracking season kicks off tonight with both the Swedish Championships in night-orienteering and the replacement race for the Norwegian Championships in night-orienteering (downgraded to Craft Cup due to snow in terrain). And guess what? Both races are with ...

Garmin today released a new Forerunner watch which will probably be the favourite choice for orienteers for o-technical analysis. The 610 will be better than the 405/410/310 XT for o-technical analysis due to reintroduction of the 1-second recording mode. Also the new touchscreen technology seems to be better than the ...

The second part of the O-Route Challenge 2011 takes us to a night-orienteering relay in snow-filled forests in Finland – the Kevätyönviesti Night-O relay in Turku. With 30-50 cm snow in the terrain, this was a tough relay with special considerations to be done when choosing your route. The chosen ...

Audun Weltzien and Annika Billstam took the overall MOC victories – whereas Vaajakosken Terä and Halden SK took the victories in the Spring Cup Relay. See maps from all three MOC and Spring Cup days below. At the Mediterranean Open Championship (MOC), Weltzien did three strong races – and won ...

Olav Lundanes and Signe Søes took the victories on the long distance race at Spring Cup today. Lundanes took the victory two minutes ahead of Francois Gonon with Runesson in third. Søes was two minutes ahead of Maja Alm with Annika Rihma in third. Note also Ida Bobach, winning D19-20E ...

After a webTV production with great potential from the mixed relay on Thursday, the long distance mass start on the program for the ski-orienteers in Tänndalen, Sweden today. According to the reports there should be live GPS tracking, live web-TV and live results from the race. The start has been ...

In a startfield with many strong sprinters, Øystein Kvaal Østerbø won the first stage in MOC 2011 ahead of Audun Weltzien and Daniel Hubmann. In the womens class, Ines Brodmann took the victory ahead of Annika Billstam. The sprint was held in a small towns with many small street – ...

The live headcam footage from the course was a first within orienteering – and made it possible to feel the speed of the athletes – and see some of the challenges the athletes met on the course. Even without GPS Tracking, the Mixed relay at Ski WOC yesterday showed good ...

The GPS tracking from today’s Ski WOC Mixed Relay with one man and one woman on the team – each skiing approximately 3 x 10 minutes should be interesting to watch! (Update: No GPS tracking – but still very interesting with live headcam from the course – following the top ...