Orienteering News

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 ...

– 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 ...