Orienteering News

In this third part of the series, we look at how to show your position on an orienteering map on your phone – using your phones built-in GPS receiver. In a few years, most mobile phones will come with built-in GPS receiver. This will be the chance for the orienteering ...

[Updated with Venice O-meeting maps] Mikhail Mamleev won both the second PWT race in Vizena on Saturday and the Venice O-meeting on Sunday ahead of Øystein Kvaal Østerbø. Kvaal Østerbø however won the overall Adriatic Meeting. In the womens class Sarka Svobodna won the Adriatic meeting with victories both Friday ...

Victories went to Øystein Kvaal Østerbø ahead of Mikhail Mamleev and Jan Troeng in the mens class and to Sarka Svobodna ahead of Uotila Ulrika in the womens class in the first race of the Adriatic meeting 2009 – which is also a PWT race. Below you find maps and ...

Denmark Wins Both JEC Relay Races, Switzerland Gets the Cup. Today the Junior European Cup in Germany ended with an extremely exciting relay competition that left the decision about the winner of the nations ranking open until the very last metres. Up to ten teams fought both in the women’s ...

Junior European Champs, Germany: Clear Decisions in the Sandstone Rocks on the JEC Long Distance Courses. The long distance race of the Junior European Cup showed today that the courses in all four classes were of a very selective nature and lead to distinct intervals even between the winners of ...

Tonight: Wingstedt, Öberg, Millinger starring in live GPS tracking by GPSSeuranta of 20 men at the Swedish Champs night orienteering. The GPS live tracking starts from 20:30 CET. Night Orienteering always gives very interesting GPS tracking broadcasts. There is also live speakersound and live results. Among the favourites tonight are ...

Seven-time and reigning World Orienteering Champion and the King of International middle distance orienteering, Thierry (Tero) Gueorgiou, recently toured Ontario (or is that onTEROio?) with three countrymen including Francois Gonon (a former WOC bronze medalist). The one week visit to Ontario was part of a three week visit to North ...

Sandstones are always popular among orienteers. Not only because they are nice to look at, but also because they make interesting orienteering problems. One of the most popular place to find sandstone orienteering in Europe is in Czech Republic – the participants in the World Masters Orienteering Champs in Australia ...

The Halikko Relay in Finland offers full GPSSeuranta GPS Tracking, online results and speaker – whereas Blodslitet in Norway offers online results and speaker. Both will be interesting events to follow online. Halikko Relay. First start at 11:00 Finnish time. Tracking at 2nd, 14th and 15th legs. GPS Tracking Live ...

Now it is really simple – and it looks perfect! It takes less than 5 minutes to get a orienteering map on your Garmin GPS device – and then you can see exactly where you are on the map using your GPS. And the map looks exactly like it does ...