Orienteering News

Victories went to Gaute Hallan Steiwer (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) in today’s JWOC Middle distance in Denmark. Sweden took four of six medals – silver by Jonas Landersson, bronze by Olle Boström and silver by Lilian Forsgren. Sarina Jenzer (Switzerland) took the bronze in the womens class. The race ...

Get ready for the last individual discipline of this Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark – the middle distance with the A-finals starting from 11:00 CET. Expect a lot of short legs with tricky orienteering as in the qualification – and probably also at least one longer leg with some ...

The middle distance is the only JWOC discipline which has a qualification race – with more than 150 men on the start line there will be a fight to get to the finals. The first start is at 10:00 CET – and with 3 heats and 158 runners the last ...

Victories went to Pavel Kubat (Czech Republic) and Ida Bobach (Denmark) in today’s JWOC Long distance in Denmark. Sweden took silver medals in both categories – Johan Runesson among the men and Therese Klintberg among the women. The race development was very exciting – especially in the mens class were ...

One of the favorites Gustav Bergman heads out already at 10:00 CET – 2:30 later Manuel Horta starts into the course as the last starter. Thus a long wait for Bergman after he finishes his race in JWOC Sprint – a tough race to win with more than 150 runners ...

Piotr Parfianowicz (POL), Jon A Osmoen (NOR), Katerina Chromá (CZE) and Franziska Dörig (SUI) took the victories in todays very technical European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance in Soria, Spain. Maps Map W18 Map W16 Map M18 Map M16 GPS Tracking from all four courses Results Men16 1 177 Piotr ...

NORT stage 3 with live GPS tracking starts at 14:00 CET. Simone Niggli starts first among the women – heading into the forest at 14:00. Daniel Hubmann starts first among the men at 15:00 CET. Get ready for tricky orienteering – even with clear leads, there may be changes in ...

– In the future probably only head-to-head duels and sprint concepts are interesting for further development as TV sports. Within a short time frame this must have consequences for which disciplines are on the program when international championships are organized. This is part of Bjørnar Valstad’s comments after the two ...

There are many highlights in the GPS tracking from the very technical Jukola and Venla relays. See how Anders Nordberg decided 10Mila for Halden SK on the long, dark and rainy 3rd leg – giving his team mates a lead of more than 5 minutes. Decisive moments – Jukola relay ...

21:55 CET on Saturday more than 1500 men head into the forest – nearly 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET 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 biggest ever ...