Orienteering News

– Reading the national teams’ and runners’ webpages, partly with the help of Google translator, I got some background information, the new leader in the Fantasy World Cup writes in an email. The new leader is Manager Ulis with the Team “OrientExpress”. – Helena Jansson was said to skip the ...

A very good start for the Nordic Orienteering Tour today – excellent TV coverage, live GPS tracking and very interesting races in both men’s and women’s categories in Helsinki today. We got yet another successful day for the Swiss duo Daniel Hubmann and Simone Niggli. Both decided the races after ...

This years EOC in Bulgaria was hopefully the last international championships without live GPS-tracking. As a spectator at home in front of the computer/big screen, I have got used to live GPS-tracking from all the big national events in Finland, Sweden and Norway, several smaller national/regional events in both Finland ...

Last years winners – the Bushmen – impressed us all after the first round of the Fantasy World Cup, but after three races Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen’s team is pushed down to third spot. The new overall leader is the RLD-observer team with manager Sveinung. Now the Fantasy World Cup has ...

Two more Swiss Gold medals in todays demanding EOC Long distance – 5 out of 8 Gold medals went to Switzerland in this years European Champs. Nobody could beat the time early starter Daniel Hubmann set – in the end Phillipe Adamski was the closest. In the womens class, Dana ...

It is time to set up your team ahead of the EOC Long – starting tomorrow morning at 08:00 CET. Results from the second round in the Fantasy World Cup will be updated when official World Cup results are available at the IOF website. Here is all the information you ...

Tricky orienteering – especially due to many green areas – met the runners in todays middle distance final at the European Championships in Bulgaria. See below for maps and official results. See story and runners comments here: Women (Gold: Simone Niggli) Men (Gold: Valentin Novikov) Maps Map Middle Final Men ...

After 3 times Thierry Gueorgiou it was now time for Valentin Novikov again! 10 years ago Valentin Novikov won the European Champs over the short and long distance in Ukraine, now the Russian was back with another EOC gold medal! Novikov’s winning strategy: A change in focus from running to ...

Simone Niggli took the gold medal in todays EOC Middle – but Signe Søes was probably even more happy for her Silver medal. In third Lena Eliasson. Danish Signe Søes has been getting closer and closer to the medals in WOC and EOC the last years – and this season ...

Rest day for the runners in Bulgaria today – but all Fantasy World Cup participants should use the day to check that they have all the middle distance stars in their team ahead of tomorrows EOC Middle Final – which is also the second World Cup race of the season. ...