Orienteering News

The maps from the World Cup Qualification in Lapua, Finland for Men-1 and Women-1 are given below. Men Many runners had problems with a control in the area around control 2 and control 3. Women

At the Jukola site here in Lapua, Finland, nearly everybody is working very hard to make the site ready for the more than 13.000 runners turning up during the coming days to run the Jukola and Venla relays. In contrast to this was the World Cup Qualification this morning. When ...

Say welcome to Lena Eliassons new blog – now to be found here at World of O. Lena is ranked 13th in IOF ranking, and got a 4th spot at the WOC Sprint distance in Denmark last year. Her blog is Swedish language, but includes some maps which others can ...

The deadline for the Jukola video competition has been extended until May 30th. Voting for the videos will be started in the beginning of June. As announced earlier, clips will be shown as they are submitted – and the best clips will be rewarded with Virkiä Jukola merchandise. The clips ...

The Jukola video competition is open for submissions! Deadline for submissions is May 25th. Clips will be shown as they are submitted – and the best clips will as previously announced be rewarded with Virkiä Jukola merchandise. The clips will be broadcast between June 14-June 17 in the two giant ...

5 of 8 gold medals went to Switzerland in Nordic Open Championships 2007 at Bornholm, Denmark – thanks mostly to excellent performances by Matthias Merz with three gold medals and Simone Niggli with two gold medals and one silver medal. Both of them also finished the championships with victories at ...

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships continues with the relay with the first start at 10.00. There will be online tracking available at TracTrac.dk (according to the TracTrac page). With no relays in the Orienteering World Cup anymore, the relay in the Nordic Orienteering Champs is the only fight left between ...

Simone Niggli lost nearly 3 minutes at the 9th of 14 controls – after being in the lead at control number 8 with nearly a minute. This was because she did not see the 9th control at the map, as it was exactly between the 8th and 10th control on ...

Victories for Matthias MerzMatthias Merz (Switzerland) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) in todays sprint in the Nordic Orienteering Championships at Bornholm, Denmark. Home favorite Søren Bobach took the Gold medal in the mens junior class, whereas Siri Ulvestad (Norway) won gold in the womens junior class. Below you find the six ...

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships starts with the sprint distance at 14.45. The last runner, Matthias Müller, starts at 17.28. It has often been said that it is more difficult to win the Nordic Champs than the World Championships, as all the Nordic countries can have up to 10 runners ...